This old bookcase that my brother gave me years ago has been sitting in the garage with junk on it since, well, years ago. In an effort to get ourselves organized before the baby comes, we wanted to move a corner full of Katelyn's stacked toys, puzzles, art stuff kind of clutter and move it into the front room and get it situated.
So instead of buying a new piece of furniture to do that I decided to reuse this old piece. So I sanded, painted and sealed it this weekend. (Yes, I wore a mask.)
I already had the paint that I love (and got for free by the way) so it cost about $60 for all of the baskets and the polyurethane to seal it. It turned out cute and now I can get all of the kid clutter organized this week before we add baby stuff clutter. (And we have one less thing in our garage!) Pretty good for nine months pregnant. (Although, as I was painting the bottom shelves I was thinking this would have been a good project for a couple of months ago.)
We've had problems with a leaky sliding glass door FOREVER and it has ruined a section of the carpet with the water damage...so it was time to replace the door. (We found out after they took the slider out that there was a crack across the bottom of it and that's where the water was getting in. So we could have kept calking everything forever and it wouldn't have fixed it.) So the contractor ripped the door out yesterday and put in new patio doors!
I love them! He said there's no way this one's going to leak. (I love that even more!)
And then this morning we had new carpet put in. Not only was the old carpet water damaged but it was stained and old and ready to be replaced. The new carpet is fabulous and the house smells all new and fresh. Now Michael get's to reassemble the entertainment center electronics. (Lucky guy.)
Everything has been moved, cleaned, dusted.... I'm so glad we got this done before the baby comes home. Ahhh....I'm just about ready. :)
