hello there, lover......

OK, he’s not my “lover”…..but he is my handyman. Tom is coming over tonight with his wacky but wonderful wife Christine to discuss the renovations! That’s right, blogland. Dharma has wrestled the cheap but very cheerful Greg to the ground and won the fight about the state of our house and how we don’t live in it. Seriously, this house was perfect when we bought it with a 3 and 9 year old but…..


Problem – We have 2 growing boys/ men. Our 8 year old Q is bursting at the seams in his 9 x 10 space. Toys are spilling out of his room regardless of his mother’s vain attempts at organizing rocks, lego, stuffed animals…he is getting too big for his twin bed too.

Solution One – completely finish our basement with a new laundry, TV room/ office and bedroom for 14 year old L. Cost = roughly $10,000. Greg just laughed, shook his head and walked out to the driveway to look up at the stars and ask God why he married me.

Dharma’s Solution Two – The upstairs area of our backsplit house has 3 bedrooms. Main bath on the extreme left. Q’s 9 x 10 prison on the left, an even tinier office 8 x 10 in the middle (not kidding, the builder must have had children who were never going to grow) and our “master bedroom” 12 x 14 which now houses the king sized bed and not much else.

Our bed is mission style and my Mother refers to our room as the “playpen” because literally the bed takes up the whole damn space….. Greg’s clothes and tallboy are in the middle office, nuff said.

So, after much measuring, we are blowing out the wall between the 2 small rooms to make one large master bedroom. We will give up the now-master to Q and L will stay in the large extra bedroom on the 3rd floor down……NO basement renovation.

We will still have the playpen effect as our bed is HUGE and will have to be in the smaller office but with the wall housing the two closets gone between the rooms we will have much more room to play with. 22‘ x 10’ to be exact. I’m pushing for a pocket door in the wall to the washroom so as to give this Momma some ensuite priveledge so she does not have to do the naked dash all the time. Wish me luck, I’ll be arm wrestling for it tonight.

Here is one of my bedroom inspirations from Young House Love’s House-Crashing:

Of course, you will have to be put through the whole process with me. I’d have it no other way. Why suffer alone, right? I’ve never renovated in my life. I prefer to move. Send prayers and patience please.
….and just think, once my room is done I get to do Q’s! I think I just heard Greg crying in the other room, I’ll be back.