office

The big move

For the past week, I’ve been working on swapping my front room with my back room.  I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile – over a year – but I kept running into resistance from other family members (..ahem… DH).  But after some more arm twisting, we agreed to swap the rooms.  Before the move, my front room – the room people walked into when they came in the front door – housed my computer, the Wii and Dan’s toys.  It was usually a big mess.  It was not an easy room to walk into every day nor was it a room conducive to having people sit down when they came over.  Typically people would stand around at the front door and stare at my big mess.  lol!   I was just tired of it.

I took before photos – but I took them on my regular camera and for some reason my laptop isn’t reading my SD card this morning.  The drive isn’t even coming up.  The SD card is working because my camera recognizes it and usually my laptop recognizes it fine.  Not going to be good if my SD reader is bad on my laptop.  So I have no before photos to show you… only photos of my work in progress…the photos below were taken on my iPhone as I went along and are quite blurry.  I have an older blog post (opens in new window) that has two photos of what my office and front door could get like although they weren’t this bad when I started my move…it’s always nice to have a point of reference. lol!

DAY 1 – Tuesday – The plan

The first thing I did was put together a planning sheet of where everything was going to go. I’m usually pretty good at visualizing things like this in my head… but I will still plan out diagrams on paper and work things out from there.  I try to make my diagrams as close to scale as I can but they aren’t perfect.

This was my original new front room layout.  It stayed exactly how I planned it out.

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Wanna see something damn scary?

….MY OFFICE!!!

 

In my attempt to be a better blogger (definitely not housekeeper), I’m going to share the nightmare that is my office.  I took these photos just yesterday (and yes not much has changed) to show Jeanine the pit that is my front room.

 

Awhile back Brenda Pinnick did a messy office contest from her blog and I sent photos for that too.  Ironically those photos weren’t nearly as bad as what I have here….

 

 

 

We do not have a basement in this house.  I used to use Dan’s room as my office – and that worked well because I could close the door and leave the disaster in there to be dealt with when I was ready.

 

But now the kids have their own rooms so even though we have 4 bedrooms, Dan has taken over what used to be my office and we got rid of the playroom when the girls got their own rooms.  So this has brought my office out to the front room as well as all the toys.  Yes… this is why I don’t have people over to my house.  LOL!

 

Ironically the rest of the house isn’t bad.  I spent a good chunk of a Friday two weeks ago reorganizing my bedroom.  Decided my pile of clothes that I usually stack on my dresser or on the dogs cage had to go.  So I reorganized the way my bedroom works and it has been a very good thing.  The next day I spent the entire Saturday cleaning the kitchen like a crazy person.  I even moved the stove and cleaned the floor under it – wow what a nightmare that was…  I was a mad cleaning whore… that doesn’t happen very often so I ride the wave when it does.

 

But I am afraid that the wave is ending with the cleaning and what I have above will stay.  Jeanine is coming next Monday to stay with me for a week for CHA.  While we don’t clean for each other when we visit – we don’t mind that we are pigs – this front room is so bad that I will have to do something about it.