The Fourth Room...

Okay, so here's the thing...I have a tiny house, I LOVE our house, but there's no bones about it, it's tiny.  So when people ask about our house and I tell them it's 1300 square feet, 4 bedrooms, and 2 bathrooms, I usually hear, "What?!? 4 bedrooms?  Where's the fourth bedroom?"

So here is the the story of The Fourth Room...

Once upon a time, there was a little family, a daddy, a mommy, and 1 super adorable baby boy.  They bought a little house for their little family and moved all their stuff in.  But where, oh where, to put all that extra stuff that never has a home.  "I know, we'll put it all in that other room down the hall.  You know, the one those crazy people who lived here before us painted dark blue and sponge painted?  We don't need to do anything in there for awhile, so we'll just put all our extra stuff in there for now."  I don't remember who said this exactly, but it was said nonetheless.

Time passed and the little family started fixing up their little house.  Painting here and there, new floors in the front room and hallway, but they only ever ventured into that fourth room to find a "temporary" spot for something they didn't really have a spot for.

The mommy and daddy were trying to share the same office for awhile, but with a fish tank and two computer desks it was starting to get crowded in there.  And the mommy didn't have a place she could do anything with all of her craft stuff.  So they decided it was time to change the fourth room into another office.  One office for each of them, because they each had a lot of stuff for their respective hobbies and nobody was able to work on anything.

That's the story of the fourth room, and here are the pictures of the story thus far...

 This is the view from the hallway.  Nice paint job, no?

And the wallpaper border?  Somebody really liked sports. (*gag*)



We took the doors off the closet and I moved all those boxes out.

This was taken after I had gone through this stuff for the hundredth time and had gotten rid of even more.

After Leland got the support framing in place.  Sorry there are no "in progress" pictures.  He textured and primed it on Saturday with Trent, and before I got home on Monday he was already almost finished with painting the yellow.  He's THAT good!

 

The "dry fit" of the countertop desk.  We got a piece of countertop for FREE leftover from somebody's work (I'm not telling who, hehe) and Leland cut it down to size.  The holes were already in there for cords/cables, etc which is nice because the iMac will be in here and all the cords can go through the holes!



And here is that cute baby boy I mentioned earlier.

This desk is so strong it can hold all 25 lbs. of this massive kid.  Love that smile!

So Leland and Trent are going to run an electrical outlet so I have power and also put in a light on the same switch as the light on the ceiling fan so I have can "frighten away the ghosts of so many years ago with a little ILLUMINATION!"  (Sorry, I couldn't resist the Phantom reference when talking about illumination.)

The reasoning behind the built-in closet desk is that these rooms are 10x10, which doesn't leave room for much else.  We have a daybed for guests (Thanks Melgozas!) and a bookcase and tv stand as well.  I couldn't figure out where to put a desk and I didn't want to get rid of any furniture.  I think I'm going to put a curtain in front of the desk opening so that it can be hidden away from guests who stay with us.

I'm still waffling on a paint color for the walls in the rest of the room.  I don't want it to be major league girly because we may have to combine offices in the future when another baby comes along and needs that other room.  On the other hand, it's just paint and it could be changed in the event of offices combining.

I've been thinking about either a light sage green OR a muted heather purple.  Thoughts?

Wood Flooring - Part 3 and Painting!

The flooring was finished two weeks ago...Leland got it all done in four days!  Wednesday he started with his dad and got half the living room done.  Then on Thursday Leland and some cousins and brothers finished the living room.  Friday night the majority of the hall was done, but the tricky, angled portion of the hallway started becoming a patience-drainer, so Leland took a break and finished the hall and the laundry closet on Saturday morning with his dad.  Yay!  I love my new wood floors, they are so much cleaner than that nasty old carpet (I'm pretty sure it was original to the 10 year old house).  And Carter's feet aren't black anymore (Can you imagine how dirty carpet would have to be to leave the tops of his feet black from crawling? Yuck!)

The finished hallway - it looks so cool on the angle like that!

And then we finally picked a paint color (Well, I finally picked a paint color) after 4 different samples painted on the wall.  Here's the thing:

Color #1 was a nice creamy color with a smidge of yellow in it.  But in large quantities it would've look white or cream, not yellow like I wanted.

I picked Color #2 thinking it was a smidge more yellow than Sample #1 without being overpowering.  But it looked like a post-it on the wall.

So my mom and I stopped by Lowe's again last Saturday to pick out two samples since this one-at-a-time thing wasn't working out.  I kept looking at the paint chips and I couldn't figure out why Colors # 1 and 2 looked so different on my wall when the paint chips were so close.  So I got another 1/2 pint of Color #2 and a 1/2 pint sample of a third color that was more taupe and not really yellow at all, just to see what it looked like next to the green in my kitchen.  Apparently whoever mixed my first sample of Color #2 did it wrong.  When I got home I opened them both up and the paint in the containers looked so different!  I painted the two new samples on the wall and was able to decide on Color #2, Winter Wheat by Olympic.

Tuesday night Leland painted the kitchen all by himself, I was wrestling our little one and getting him fed and ready for bed.  And there's not a ton of room in the kitchen, it would've been crowded with us both painting in there together.

And last night (Thursday), my dad came over to help us start in on the living room.  The three of us worked for about an hour and a half and got most of the living room done.  I love this new paint color!  It's much better than that ugly light pink the previous owners had throughout almost the entire house.