One Project Done And Done and One Just Begun

So finally we have a finished project to brag about!!!

Yeah!!! So that part of Eli's "Industrial Tough Baby" themed room is done. We are also planning to do something like this in the corner for a bookshelf:

with lighting somewhat like this:

So..... Slowly but surely we will get his room done.  It is not a super high priority since the boy hates his crib and really wants nothing to do with it (yay for me).

But the other real project we have started was converting the office into a playroom (sophisticated playroom according to B - he is still in mourning from losing his office space).

I wanted to gain back a little sanity in my house and so instead of battling the clean up of the living room everyday and becoming a rage-aholic we decided banishing all the toys and such to a designated spot might just help.

And so, this is the start of the Playroom:

These two are pure chaos I tell you.  Emily is everywhere.  Eli wants to be everywhere and I can't keep up.

And this is the desk/vanity that I bought off Craigslist - thinking it was much bigger than it was.... You should have seen the face B gave me when we pulled up and saw how small it was.  Not the man desk for his man office that I thought it was going to be.

He didn't go with the idea that it would make him look much more powerful and manly towering over it while he pounded away at work... so it has been hiding in the basement for a while waiting for the perfect opportunity to make its debute.

And so here it is.

As you can see, the lamps even dwarf it.  But it will be perfect for the kids for quite a while... painted a great shade of gray.

My goal for this room is to paint it something like this:

to make it feel a little wider than the space really is (more gray tones vs. brown tones)...

Then have bookshelves on both sides of the window (probably Billy's from Ikea) made to look like built-ins.... and so there you have it - another room under construction!!!  But really this just needs a little paint and a small amount of storage solutions!

Wish us luck!