The Room

It's still a HUGE work in progress, but the painting is done except for a few touch ups I need to do and some paint needs to be added to the top of the closet.  As promised, there are pictures!  

First coat of blue.

Blue and white walls after the paint has dried and the tape removed.

The green wall (still drying) and the closet.

The room is still a disaster.  It took all 4 days of my holiday weekend to get to this point.  Let's just say that the 3 1/2 hours of power sanding painted-over splatter paint didn't help expedite the process.  The furniture has started arriving in boxes, so hopefully the room will be completely put together within the next weekend or two unless we end up ordering a second bed, then it may take longer.


I didn't really elaborate why it's so important to get the room together as fast as we are.  When we have our home study done we have to have a room in place for our potential kiddo.  The home study will potentially be the first of the year, but just in case we have a social worker who's in a hurry to get things going before the end of the year, we figured it would be wise to go ahead and get it really ready.  Obviously, we have no clue what colors our child/children will like, but we can (quickly) repaint before they come to stay with us and match the room to their tastes.  We just want to make sure that for the time being the space is fun and welcoming.  I realized after painting these colors that they are probably more appropriate to a boy, but maybe a girl would like them too.  If not, I'll be spending a weekend speed-painting again.  At least the sanding is done now! 


That's all for tonight's post.  This Saturday is our last MAPP class, so there will be more after our class.  I'm sad to see the classes end, but thrilled that we are that much closer to becoming a forever family!