Changing Rooms

Good Morning everyone.

Hope all you Mother's had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday

and

all you non-mothers enjoyed celebrating with your mothers.

We had a very quiet day ourselves.

We went to church, then brunch, then spent the afternoon

just enjoying each others company.

Those types of get-togethers are just so relaxing and fun.

I think I enjoy them the most.

A couple of posts ago I was telling you about some changes that 

are being made here.

These are room changes involving - not one

but,

three rooms.

All three are being moved and their uses are being reworked 

to fit our ever changing needs.

The room above is my and Papa's bedroom when we first moved in 

two years ago.

We have really never done anything to it except painted it when we moved in.

(Papa was not thrilled with the baby pink it was painted).

The boxes were removed and the furniture was moved around a bit

but,

no decor - nothing...

I have been working on this room for about two months now trying 

to make it a nice relaxing retreat for us.

I felt it had been ignored long enough.

However, this past month we had a sort of family pow- wow 

and

decided things just weren't functioning as we really would like them to.

Our resident 8 year old, Miss A - who lives in this room

has decided it is no longer fitting her "needs". 

After all she is growing up !? - according to her....

She requested her room be moved to the loft.

This has been debated previously but, we all felt she just wasn't ready to be up there yet.

Her room is right across from her parents 

and

she feels much comfort in that.

(Or maybe her parents and her grandparents feel much comfort in that ??)

Anyway, after much conversation and consideration 

her room was moved to the loft.

This is what was in the loft.

My office - craft space that I  dearly loved

but,

it was not functioning well for me either.

I was up where it was quiet to work 

but,

it also made me unavailable for whatever was going on downstairs 

with the rest of the family.

And, let's face it all you Mothers - 

there is always an "urgent" need requiring you to trek down the stairs

while trying to accomplish something upstairs.

So, it was decided that the loft would be incorporated into

this room.

This room is my and Papa's bedroom.

I just showed you our new bed linens in this post.

This room had not really made much more headway than the new linens

so, 

incorporating the office furniture into the room

was much easier than I thought it would be.

I have been able to add the office in a way that I am loving.

I will be posting more of that soon.

Now, what happened to that empty room?

Well, it is being changed into something the whole family agreed that we need 

at this time in our lives.

It is definitely a work in progress as you can see.

A partially put together exercise machine to start off our 

new get healthy regimen.

We have been working on trying to eat healthier and get more exercise 

however,

with Papa and I being of a particularly older age 

the working out in the summer here at the beach is most unbearable for us.

So, T decided that we would put together a home gym

to help us all out.

No need for us to be out in the heat and humidity at all.

We can get our strength training and our cardio in the comforts of air conditioning.

None of these rooms are finished - it's much like moving 

and

I honestly think it would have been easier to just 

move into another home than do all of this.

What it has done though is caused all of us to do some 

very much needed purging and organizing - think Spring cleaning on a major level.

We definitely have lots to do over the next few months 

and, of course,

 we decided to start this just when its

time to work on the outdoor projects.

So, I am trying to balance out all the work and get things done as 

quickly and easily as possible.

Have you ever made major room changes all at once?

How did you keep your sanity?

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