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3rd room painted: The computer room.

I think that we changed the name of this room every 2 weeks during the first 6 months that we lived here. Living room? Den? Family Room? As silly as it sounds, we simply couldn't agree on what to call it. To poke fun at ourselves at how absurd of a problem this was, at some point we decided to actually give it a name... and so it jokingly became The Benjamin Franklin Room (as in the guy on the $100 bill) since it's the room where I typically go to sit idly and comb over our finances. But good luck getting a 3- and 4-year-old to pay homage to Benjamin Franklin. And so, eventually it simply became the computer room. It is indeed where our only desktop computer is located... (ironically enough, that's the only corner of the room that I forgot to capture in the photos).  And that's pretty much the only thing that matters on this side of the house to our kids. So without further ado, we present to you... the painted computer room.

We're not quite done with this room yet, but I thought that it was deserving of a "halfway there" blog entry. We're thinking of painting the cabinets cream (same color that's below the chair rail), repainting the tan wall a slightly different shade... and replacing or painting the mantle wouldn't hurt either. But for now we've got more important things to spend our time and (Benjamins) on... so classify this one as a long-term work-in-progress. It'll all get done in due time.

Tea Time

Slowly but surely, we're making our new home our own.

On a limited budget, there's nothing like a $23 gallon (make that 8 gallons) of quality paint to personalize a living space and make it feel like home. The classroom, the girls' room, and (what we call) the computer room have all been splashed with color. For the girls room, we settled on a color palette called Tea Time. Painting one room four different colors was admittedly a chore... but then again, it also worked out nicely because it forced me to do it in stages. In any event, the kaleidoscope project is complete, and the girls (by far) have the most exciting room in the house. Look out, Sherwin Williams. I think I'm on a roll (no pun intended... but that did kind of work out nicely, didn't it?). 3 rooms down... Way too many to go. But we'll get there. One room at a time.

Three Cheers

Here's to Breakfast!

You'd think that we never feed them.