Before and After - The Before and During Part

Due to some last-minute changes in Spring Break plans, I get four days alone at home this week, while the rest of the household hangs with Mickey Mouse. I had the rollers and brushes out before Chad and the kids were even out the door this morning. :)

Here's what the master bedroom and bathroom have looked like since we moved in:
Well, it's not entirely true that these rooms have looked the same for four years. We've actually (if you can believe it) made some improvements since the early days. For instance, we had massive mirrored closet doors when we moved in, which we promptly took out. We then lived with no closet doors at all - clothes and shoes and junk and mess in full view 24/7 - until we had the brilliant idea of hanging curtains in lieu of a closet door. Problem was that the curtains made our room look like Johnny Carson's stage. So, we ditched the curtains, and eventually Chad put in some closet doors (a project not without its challenges).

Another big improvement was the addition of the cool bench at the foot of the bed, which Chad built for me for Christmas a couple of years ago. Love having a builder husband.

And, we replaced our dumspster-dive dressers about a year ago, with some matchy-match ones from Ikea. Love Ikea.

Oh, ya, and the family masterpiece hanging over the bed is only a couple of years old.

So, really the place looks ten times better than it used to, but still, blecch. Time to do something about that.

I ripped out those hideous bathroom cabinets (can't begin to describe how satisfying that was), cleared everything out of the bedroom, and painted to my little heart's content, while the radio blared and no one needed me for anything. Bliss.A good day.