The nursery fiasco

We originally intended to add the nursery into our guest room (the bigger of the 2 spare rooms we have). We had already painted it yellow (a neutral color we figured would work for a boy or a girl), changed the dingy carpet to bamboo hardwood, and replaced the baseboards. It was pretty much completed and ready to go! For what ever reason, we (or maybe just me) changed our minds and now wanted to use the computer room as the nursery instead. The downfall to this new plan was that the computer room had NOT been re-done. We took a long break when trying to fix up the place after moving in 2 1/2 years ago and never did it.

So now the hard work began, at least for Brad. He took on the task to move the entire office into the guest room and anywhere else he could manage to stuff things. I helped out as much as I could, not lifting anything too heavy (as instructed NOT to do by my doctor). Before I knew it, the room was empty and was soon being painted a light shade of tan called Arabian Sands. As much as I wanted to help *cough cough*, I actually had to leave the house while the painting was done (again as instructed by my doctor). A few days later, it was completed and I absolutely LOVED it. With a little help from a few friends the bamboo floors and baseboards were in a few weeks later and we were back in business ... or so we thought.

Our 2007 SJ/SF, LA, Vegas family vacation was coming up and our house needed to be ready to host my mom, Tammy, and Scott. We couldn't start decorating the nursery just yet. Instead, temporarily we made the soon to be nursery into a guest room (for my mom with a real queen size bed) and set up the old guest room into the office, which also needed space to fit a queen size air-mattress for Tammy and Scott. Our thought process for doing this was so the office could later remain the office and the guest room would later turn into nursery. Confused yet? :P

So it seems we were now pretty much all set, right? Wrong! To completely empty the nursery (which currently is the make shift guest room), we now had to find space for all the furniture. The office already had 2 desks with desktop computers and chairs, a bookshelf, a dresser, and a full sized filing cabinet. There was absolutely NO room for a queen size bed, another dresser, and another bookshelf. The easy solution would be to give up the guest room. Enough said! But when have you known us to be easy? With the upcoming birth of our baby, the first grandchild on both sides ... we were totally expecting guests!! New Grandmas and Grandpas to be exact and it didn't seem proper to have to have them sleep on an air-mattress.

Let the creativity begin. Maybe we could turn the dining room into an office. We never eat in there! Or, maybe we get rid of the desktop computers and replace them with laptops so it'll take up less space. We always have extra money to buy stuff we don't really need! Grrr, this wasn't easy. In the end, we stuffed my computer desk, chair, computer and printer into our bedroom. This left us enough room in the office to at least put the bed. We ended up giving away all the extra furniture to friends or donating them to goodwill. But alas ... now things were more or less in order. We had a bedroom/office, a guest room/office and an empty nursery we could finally start preparing!