Today, We Nest

This year has been a transition year. My husband has been in the mortgage business for over eight years. Well, you can probably imagine how that has gone this year. So after many long, hard months, he has made the transition from being a small business owner of a mortgage company to another small online business owner. And now he will start working from home. And thus, our house has been in a transition too, as we rearrange rooms, move in furniture we need and sell furniture we don't need. Some rooms are clean and straight, others are in complete disarray.

But today, today we nest.

Last night we went to Home Depot and purchased two gallons of paint and a new ceiling fan (thanks to a Home Depot gift card...our saving grace). We are painting the "old office" and creating a second guest room/sitting area (we're moving another desk into this room to for additional work/blogging space). The "new office" - our bonus room - will be my husband's home base, literally.

But back to the "old office" for a minute. (Side bar: is it just us, or do you too have trouble figuring out what to call the rooms in your house? I think it has a lot to do with how you grow up, and what your parents chose to call certain rooms. And then you bring two people together, and suddenly it's "what do we call this room" and "can you put this in the den? the what? you mean the family room? no, the den!" Now, throw in the fact that you decide to switch up a room - how hard is it to start calling it something different! Sheesh. One should not have to think this much at home.)

But back to the story at hand. We're painting the room a nice khaki green color. We've moved a day bed into the room that we got from my husband brother, who in turn got it from his mom. We've moved out a bunch of things and (hopefully) won't move too much back in, as to keep the clutter to a minimum. We'll install the ceiling fan to replace the old, hideous one that hangs in there currently (seriously, the previous owner of this house had the worst taste in ceiling fans and well, pretty much everything). We'll clean and organize, and hopefully by the end of the weekend (or the end of next weekend), we'll have a nice second guest room/sitting area.

During these times of transition, it will be nice to have another room in order. I'll post some before and after pictures in a few weeks.