Well sort of!!!  I had told Eric back in June that all I wanted for my Birthday was to transform our spare bedroom a.k.a ‘the junker’ to a refreshing production office for purple nickel.  And that’s just what we did.  3 weeks ago we took off a Sunday & Monday and decided to dive in…literally!!! Just imagine the room jam packed full of plastic tubs on wheels stacked halfway up the height of the room.  YIKES.  Most of you know we’re remodeling our home completely (see previous blog post) & well this served as a great option to store all our perishable items such as photographs, DVD’s, candles…pretty much anything that would melt like lava in our mobile mini parked out front in this 100+ Arizona heat.  

So we got our game plan on bright and early that Sunday morning and immediately began transporting the plastic bins out into our living room. That was the easy part!  We soon realized that the walls were far more cracked than we had remembered from years of foundation settlement & that the old floor tiles were completely disgusting showing signs of old carpet water stains…YUCK! Not to mention the poorly installed baseboards and chipped tiles from the removal of carpet tacks years back. But we kept going.  

We made our home improvement shopping list and headed out.  There was so much prep involved that we didn’t even start painting until 10 p.m. Sunday night.  It would have been 9 p.m. but we totally had to take a 1 hour break and catch our favorite HBO show ‘TRUE BLOOD’…it was perfect timing and a much needed rest.  FYI…I’m so glad we got the primer & paint in 1!!!  A must have.  We decided to purchase the brightest white flat finish paint they had to offer & give a HUGE ol’ facelift to the dingy boring bland space.  Eric badly wanted to accent one wall in our reconizable lime color you see all over our site and photography branding.  *Lime POP*…that’s exactly what it’s called.  Ha.  At first I was apprehensive.  I suggested we try some solid thick stripes along the wall instead of the whole wall. Well that idea lasted about 2 seconds when Eric told me to just trust him.  And that I did.  Best thing ever I must say.  He’s usually right when it comes to design decisions and seeing the ‘whole picture’.  Can’t wait to see what he has instore for our home!!!  So when it was all said and done we finished late Monday evening and we’re completely exhausted. We currently have NO artwork up yet but have a million ideas from a large graphic mural sketched up on the lime wall, to 3D art installations of framed objects above the cozy MOD couch (which by the way hasn’t been uncovered from the plastic wrap in almost 2 years), and to a good ol’ flat screen t.v.  Stay tuned…

Take notice of the horrible cracked walls that were badly repaired years ago.  UGH.  If I remember correctly there used to be crappy wood ‘den-like’ paneling to hide them…this was before my sister removed the hideous planks from what was her old bedroom.  Eric & I decided to repair what we could with the knowledge that we would re-frame & re-floor once this room was part of the remodel. 

YAY…all walls & ceiling are a crisp clean WHITE!!!  Sure beats that rosey peach color wouldn’t you say?.  And I’m already LOVING the accent wall!  I guess Eric was right after all.  And NO we didn’t paint the whole wall with a brush…just the trim!  It took 4 coats of LIME before it was all evenly colored.

PRESTO!!!  I would have to say that this is freakin AH-MAZING.  What a transformation!!!  I’m inspired already.  And look…we were able to take apart our custom couch that used to be plastic wrapped in the living room and put it to good use!  We waited 3 months for that dang thing to be created (our wedding gift to ourselves) and then it just got covered up.  I was so sad to not have a simple couch to relax on…our close friends know this all too well.  Ummmm not anymore!!! YAY…I can’t even begin to tell you how much I have enjoyed the last 3 weeks in our new room. And it’s all THANKS to my thoughtful husband who I adore!!!

I knew I was organized before but now it’s a whole new level.  Next up is tacking up the bajillion electrical cords somehow & clearing out the closet for a custom place to organize all our product packaging, boxes/tags, equipment, and gaggets.  It’s gonna be so tiddy that we won’t even need the gold trimmed mirrored sliding doors anymore to hide the clutter!!! DARN.  Oh and of course ARTWORK needs to be created.  I’m so looking forward to this part. FUNNESS is about to happen…

Just some details…LOVING the white linear tables (ikea)…duh!

We would love to hear any ideas or suggestions as to what type of ART we should hang/create? Please comment below your thoughts…THANK YOU!  And don’t be shy.