Moving...

No, we are not moving to a new place. We are moving our bedroom. Remember the room I just redid sort of? Here.

Well we decided to move into a different room altogether. We have a tiny back room that used to be my son's room. He had in it, a double bed, desk, desk chair, couch and dresser. Plus his laundry basket which he kept full of clothes. His dirty ones he put on the floor his clean, instead of going in the dresser went into the basket...

Well this summer our room just got unbearably hot. At night it was unsleepable. I tend to be a huge grouch when I do not sleep well and with it being in the 100s for weeks on end, I was plenty grouchy!

So I noticed son's room, destined to be Beloved's office was much cooler than the other room... it is actually the coolest room in the house all the time...

So I suggested to Beloved we move our bed in there for the rest of the hot days. We did.

Last night we began talking of making the move permanent. The only down side is the closet is not big enough, he would have to store his hang up clothes in his office... not a huge thing but still to me a negative.

In discussing it further we realized that since he is inheriting his mother's office furniture, it will not all fit in this tiny room. Adding to that he wants to really start his pc business up again, there would be no space in the tiny room for a work bench...

I think we have decided to make this temporary move permanent. We only use the bedroom for sleeping, I do sometimes read on the netbook in there. We usually get dressed in there too... The tiny room has plenty of space for our bed, my chest of drawers, hubby's dresser and our night stands, laundry baskets. It has a built in book shelf I can put books in so my little one from the bedroom can go into my sewing room... The closet will hold my clothes and coats...

We have laminate flooring I want to put down. We will need to paint and I need to figure out what to do with this:

This is a huge picture window that gets all day sun... My idea is to cover it with plywood and paint over it. Make it a sort of wall. The bed will be against this. Otherwise the room will not work at all. There are 2 small windows on either side of the picture window. You see the ac unit in one of them. These I will make curtains for or buy blinds for.

My dresser will go against the outside door.

I hate covering the door. Seriously I have a thing for exits. However when we eventually really get to redoing things, the back door will move into the breakfast room anyway. That is a couple years down the road but still on the agenda.

I plan to paint the room a light tan color. Not sure if I will do something else to the trim or leave it white. I plan for this room to be a red and blue room mostly. The comforter is my scheme.

Here is the room now:

Please ignore the pile of stuff. We were using this room for storage and since the bed was only a temp addition we just shoved it all in front of the outside door... it is all stuff for Beloved's office so now it will be moved into there...

Here is the laminate flooring we have:

There are 12 full boxes, enough for the tiny room and possibly the breakfast room too. Normally I would not cover a wood floor. However this floor in most places is in such shape that we can not afford to redo it. Since some one gave us the laminate, it is best for us to use it.

My hope is to be done labor day weekend. Since we already have the flooring and part of the moisture barrier, we only need some wood, some spackle and paint. Oh and 1 rolls of moisture barrier.

What do you think?

hugs y'all!