A while ago we decided that updating our office would be a good idea. Our plan was to simply repaint the walls, get new carpeting and we'd save up some money to get a few things we wanted like nicer desks, chairs, entertainment center, filing cabinets, etc. The project kept growing as we envisioned new things and we started sketching out plans, playing with Sim plans (a very useful tool honestly, and fun) and pretty much free thinking about this space that we, being a creativly minded couple with mostly art-based hobbies (and movies and video games) would be spending 99.9% of our time. The other .1% being at work, eating, sleeping, bathing, yada yada.

So with our schedule so tight we can only work on it, drawings, and fustuffs on the weekends which means the progress has been a little slow but about 4 weeks ago we began boxing our current living room up and thirty boxes, two trips to Goodwill's donation area, and too many trashcans later we were ready to start the actual labor involved.

Thus we started tonight .

I'll be updating this as we go, mostly it was just tearing down a hanging ceiling and ripping off a panel today - which took about 8 hours :tired:. Decided to grab some shots with the camera and this: [link] is the Flickr set for it. Later on there will be exciting and fun stuff once we actually start painting it, slipping in our fandom-related indulgances that if they turn out anywhere near the plans I can see some of y'all asking me for at least how the heck I did it ^_^, and the transformation of a really crappy and damaged small room into a livable and functional creative space.

A little history on our home: We live in Ohio in a small two bedroom house that was built off of a log cabin that was constructed in 1900. We have seventeen inch solid log walls hidden under the plaster of our house which looks amazing from up in the attic. We moved into this place five years ago and discovered all of it's many quirky charms - which originate we assume from it being bit piece by piece onto the original log cabin structure. The oddest thing we've found so far has to be when replacing tile in the bathroom shower wall we found a huge HUGE window, completed hidden behind a simple piece of misused drywall. IN the enclosed shower and with JUST the siding of the house on the other side. Weird hunh? Who knows what we'll find as we rip the paneling down in the living room. Well.. It's 4 am I know now but check out the photostream if you're interested. It's not as exciting as a window and it means a lot more work for us as we do this but still...

If everything in my life could be as fun as the chaos that my life has been since I got married? If everyday for the rest of my life goes on like it does right now? I'll be happy. This is awesome.

And she's letting me paint -everything- yellow.

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