What a modern woman wants most . . .

. . . right after world peace, the safety and happiness of her children, thick, luxurious hair, and nail polish that doesn't chip is . . . OUTLETS! And, not only outlets, but desk level outlets that are easy to reach, to plug in the myriad rechargeable electronics that have become essential to our lives.

And I generously insisted that Lee put in another four by his desk.

This is the third and final project in our home office for the time being. No painting for now, we need to go back and focus on the bathroom project now that the tub has arrived.

The Closet Revival

O.K. This is a work in progress so you'll need to use your imagination. This is one of the two closets found in the room which Lee and I share as an office on the 2nd floor of our home. This weekend, we took down the old shelf and rods and replaced them with vinyl-clad shelves.

This has now become . . . my photo closet!!!!! Yay! Up until now, I've been storing photos in the basement. Yes, two floors down from the room in which I blog and photoshop, not to mention that the humidity wasn't good for the photos. But we never seemed to get around to tackling the office - until this past weekend, when all of a sudden I couldn't stand the mess any longer. No more photos waiting for a trip to the basement to be put away in its proper box! No more albums piled on the floor for lack of a proper storage place! And no more cobwebs or dust bunnies building up around the stacks of photo albums and boxes!

The door of the closet will go back up this weekend, after I finish bringing up all the albums. We haven't painted the closet yet, or the room for that matter. There are still several additional "improvements" that I'd like to see before we paint (sorry, darling, brace yourself!).
Lee did tackle one more project in this room this past weekend but it's not quite finished yet. I'll let you know soon . . .

Bathroom remodeling by way of the office

Progress on the bathroom is slow for now. We ordered a new whirlpool tub and have to wait until that's in before anything else can be done in the bathroom. The wait has given us a chance to bring boxes from work to fill with debris so it can be hauled away by the garbage truck.

In the meantime, we tackled a few projects to make our bedroom-turned office space more efficient. The first problem was the extremely poor lighting in the room. We had been getting by with a mish mosh of lamps that should have been thrown out long ago, but, in addition to being ugly, they were just simply not doing the job. It was difficult working in the office at night - and let's not forget that our eyes aren't what they used to be . . .

Here is the new wonderful track lighting system that my husband installed today, selflessly braving the creepy crawl space filled with dust, insulation and spiders.

I really have to brag about my husband. He managed to install the lights by opening a single, tiny hole in the ceiling, which is now covered by the brackets. I was prepared for a ceiling that looked like Swiss cheese, and that would need to be re-plastered. Instead, the ceiling looks as pristine as it was this morning before he started - only way, way better!

Now the only question I ask myself is: “What was I thinking when I bought that hideous lamp by the window?”

That wasn't the only problem we solved in this room this weekend . . . Stay tuned for . . . “The Closet Revival!”