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.