The Last Room Begins

It's finally time to give the laundry room a little attention. And first up is taking out this rarely-used door and replacing the old window. 

Beautiful!

And after moving some outside plumbing in the wall, it's sheetrocked and ready for the next step!

The Schoolroom

For a while (ever), the plan has been to move these school shelves upstairs (with the long-term plan being built-ins).  But James (and Jeff) have both been quite skeptical about them fitting up the stairs. While I have remained quite optimistic. 

Turns out they were right.  

We tried - and lost - as evidenced by the dent in the wall. 

So James decided to deal with it in the fastest way possible.

The Sawzall. 

I couldn't stop laughing. But hey, we have shelves upstairs! 

Now to screw them back together and fill them up with all this stuff! 

Thank you, dear daughters, for all of your heavy lifting help.  It's taking shape!

And Darcy has a new spot. :-) 

She also loves being able to watch the trash truck. 

And, for the first time in a long time, we have a dining room again. 

We "repurposed" this dresser as a buffet (It was glad to be relieved of its changing table duties - so many punny possibilities in that sentence...)

Thanks to Charis for her styling, and to Lily for that gorgeous red velvet cake!