House Work!

Ok so we have a ton to do to get our house ready for baby girl.  


First a little explanation of my house.  You walk in to the top story of my house.  This is the main level that we live on (kitchen, living room, laundry room, etc).  Also, our master bedroom is upstairs.  Downstairs there are three other bedrooms.  One of them is another master suite which is the guest room right now...lake view, door opens onto deck, large closet, etc.  The other room also has lake views and is quite big....also has a door that opens to the deck.  This room is my husband's office right now.  More on that in a minute.  The third bedroom (which we call the red room) is on the other side (non lake side) of the house and is smaller with no windows.  We have two queen size beds in there right now so we can sleep a ton of people at my house.  


Ok so baby girls room is going to be where my husband's office is right now...the second spacious bedroom downstairs.  We are moving his office to the little room with no windows.  His office right now is a complete mess.  I mean it was organized when we moved in almost five years ago but it has just gone downhill ever since.  The closets have bookcases that are full of books and now the books are piling up on the floor.  He used to work out of the office about two evenings a week but now he doesn't actually work in there as much.  I really want to create a place for him to go and unwind...chill out...relax.  We have decided that instead of having a couch in his office we would leave one of the queen size beds in there that way we can still sleep a lot of people (like when his family comes to stay).  Here are a few pics of his office now (baby girls future nursery)......It is almost embarrassing to show these...but I want to remember!

when you first walk in....

 There are books stacked behind the couch as well...

 There are shelves between these doors that are also full of books...I told y'all...he hoards books!

So, as you can see, lots of stuff to move out and get organized!  The only thing we have done in this room so far is organize all the stuff on the floor.  Everything is ready to be moved into his new office once that room is ready....

Now on to the red room (his future office).  This room is WAY more organized than the other one.  The closet was full of stuff but we cleaned it out in about an hour.  

We have completely cleaned out this closet.  I am getting bookshelves built into this closet from floor to ceiling.  HOPEFULLY this will house all the books!  The guy is supposed to come install them in about 2 weeks.  Then I will have them painted and then we will be ready to move everything in!  I have already purchased a new quilt and shams for the bed that is going to stay in there and a huge rug.  The colors I am doing are like browns, golds, and maybe a little blue.  I can't wait to get all the stuff in this room.  Once this is done then we can paint baby girls room!  There is lots to do but I am sort of in a holding pattern until I get the shelves.  

The other issue is this.  Our bedroom right now is upstairs.  The nursery is downstairs.  We said when we moved in that we would move our bedroom to the downstairs master suite when we had a baby.  We just feel like it is too far from her.  I know that she will be in our room in the beginning but who knows?  So that is another thing that we have to do.  Switch the master suites.  I am not stressing at all about this because if we don't do it before she gets here that is ok.  It will be easy to do if we decide that is what we want.  


So, as you can see, lots of work to be done!  I can't wait to be able to share pictures of the office when it is finished....and then Baby W's room!!!  I can't lie...it feels really good to clean stuff out and get organized.  I'm not sure if I am "nesting" yet, but all I can think about is what needs to be organized next...craft closet, kitchen drawers, nightstands, pantry, etc......


Hope everyone has had a great weekend...It is blazing hot here...100 every day :(