Anyway, we were down in Jupiter 'supervising' for almost a week and things look great. My kitchen is installed except for the appliances and the counter-tops, the floor looks wonderful, and they were working on the bathrooms while we were there. I was so happy that I didn't even hit the roof over the AC being on 70 with all the doors and windows open to the 95 degree weather!
The Good Thing is that the floor is finished and bee-u-tiful, even though it was covered with protective paper. I peeled back a corner- so OK, it was a 12' corner- in the studio just to look at it and dream of actually working in that studio some day. hmmm. I told the contractor I wanted 2 homasote sheets banged into the wall where I had previously stenciled some big old palm trees. He didn't seem to get it that I want them gone! The room now is pale blue with cloud formations painted on and I want the ceiling to remain cloudy- the rest of the room will be painted off-white and I will install some sort of utilitarian blinds that will be open most of the time. At some point down the road I will have the ceiling fan removed and replaced by some good industrial lighting but TY won't go for that just yet. Sigh.
Actually when this was a guest room it was kinda cute but I got sick of having to pick up everything and hide it if someone decided to stay over and needed to actually get INTO the bed. Need any blue and white quilts?
Here's the other side with all the doors jammed up together- obviously I cannot put anything in this corner. That's the big closet on the left, the door to the living room in the center, and the bathroom on the right. You can still come stay with me, but you will get a blow up bed instead of a real bed. And it will have fancy new sheets. (600 ct., Overstock.com came through for me)
Here is the last corner, with the big closet (which is getting new bi-fold doors instead of the mirrored atrocities that came with the house.)and the little window. The left half of this closet will be TY's electronics that will feed into the living room on the other side of the wall. Since they stick all the pieces on rolling shelves, it won't take up much room- probably will fit in that dead space behind the short wall.
SO- the plan is to put a computer desk in the corner under the window of the first picture, with a return on the left for the printer. Also on the left will be one of those rolling shelf units from West Elm, the 3x4 size, which I will fill with closed storage boxes. I am also ordering 2 2x3 shelf units which will be the base for a 4x6 foot piece of laminate for a work table. I work standing up and this comes out to counter height. I figure that I can move the top off when I need a bedroom, 'pretend' it's a headboard, roll the two small shelves to each side of the bed as bed-side tables, and put out a cushy area rug so no one has to put bare feet on cold stone. Then, a chair by the computer and away I go. For the closet I have a wire shelf unit that fits into the hidden part of the closet, and two wire basket storage units for fabric and big papers- I am hoping these will stack on top of each other. All I need for guest space in the closet is about 2 feet of hanging room- should be more than enough. Don't bring many clothes when you come- we will shop!
Next I am thinking I might get a bunch of those stick on floor tiles to use under my work table- it is easy to pick them up and rinse them or toss them away if they get badly damaged and the jazzy patterns are nice too. Last, I want a thin shelf installed around the top of the room, or maybe only on one side, to hang stuff from- I take many photographs and also need space for seeing them before I "do" something to them.
Please, if you have other ideas or think I am going about this all wrong, get in touch! In fact I BET you didn't even get through all this rambling so surprise me and tell me what ideas I need to adopt. Thanks-
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