Room Renovations...Phase One

Belated Happy 4th of July to everyone. Yesterday was a fun-filled day in the Heberlig household: Phase One of Colin's room renovation. Fortunately, we've already painted the room (a very cool Carolina Blue -- go Heels! color called "Stratosphere").

Last weekend, we had purchased a crib (which changes into a toddler, then youth bed) and dresser/changing table from our neighbor (she's moving, so bought it for a really good price...). One slight problem, our extra mattress is still in the bedroom as well.

Solution? Get the mattress into the extra bedroom (aka "the pink room"). But, in order to do that, we had to move Eric's twin bed out of the pink room (ever notice how solutions sometime create new problems?). So, we move Eric's bed frame into the attic (thank goodness it wasn't blasted hot yesterday) and the mattresses into the garage.

Next step: clutter reduction. You know, it's amazing how much junk two people can accumulate in a short amount of time. We went through our things and disposed (or donated to Goodwill as appropriate) of items we no longer needed (including MANY copies of journal articles Eric used in graduate school...after all, it has been 10 years since he graduated from The Ohio State University).

It took a good bit of the early afternoon but the clutter is gone (in the pink room at least). I'm looking forward to picking up the new bed we purchased from my CM friend Caroline (another True Blue Tarheel fan) on Monday.

Once the bed is in place, we can move the mattress into it's new home. Then we shall palaver forward to Phase Two of Room Renovations (whenever that might occur...).