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Thursday Ramblings

July 26, 2012 By Living Solutions Interior Design

I’m working away on a couple of client projects, a design board for baby girl’s nursery, and painting my upstairs hallway right now.  I also hope to get the valance and the mail sorter for the command center up in the next few days. I feel like I’m in a mad rush to get everything that is on my to do list completed! I know I can slow down a bit, but I feel like in 4 months life is going to be even more crazy around here and I want the projects that are on my to-do list completed because my home is, and will be, my little safe haven!

It’s always been like this…house projects gnaw at me and consume me until they are completed. I have an exhaustive to-do list that includes organizing, painting, taking down more wallpaper, moving rooms and furniture around, {of course I won’t be moving the furniture…so that’s a whole other to-do: talk hubby into trying different furniture configurations!}, figuring out a built in closet-office, finishing up rooms that are almost complete {like the master bedroom and guest room}, hanging gallery walls, designing a nursery, making some type of cleaning/laundry schedule…That probably doesn’t even include everything and I’m already totally overwhelmed and exhausted looking at this list! Jason can help a bit {especially in about a week when he has some time between summer school and fall semester} but he works about a 60+ hour work week and then goes to law school full time, so he doesn’t have a whole lot of “extra” time.  That extra time we like to spend as a family hanging out, not to mention that home improvement isn’t what he chooses to do when he has a few extra minutes :).

However I’m slowly, but surely working on getting everything checked off. I’m really only working on two home projects right now: Finishing up the command center and working on our upstairs hallway. I have found that for me, really focusing on a maximum of 2 projects at a time at home is all I can really handle with everything else going on in our lives, {family, work, running the household} so I try to just stay focused and plug away little by little!!!

Does anyone else feel like this?!?!? Or is it just my crazy brain that is on overdrive?!?

Here are some pictures of the upstairs hallway progress. I will share what worked for me when taking down wallpaper in an upcoming post. I actually really like taking down wallpaper. Crazy, right? I find myself looking forward to the process of taking down the downstairs hall wallpaper while I’m painting!

Let us remember what it looked like…

In progress…
Wallpaper is down…

Dry wall and new chair rail is up…

                                           And all primed…

I have a paint color picked out, {more of a tan/beige with a bit of gray undertones: Baby Fawn by Benjamin Moore-the same paint I’ve used in the command center} but I haven’t tested it yet, so we’ll see once I get a little paint up on the walls. I thought maybe I wanted more of a gray, but seeing the primer up which is more of a gray white, I think I like the original plan better.

Off to get things accomplished :) 
Happy Thursday!

 

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Hi! I'm Gina and welcome to the Living Solutions Blog! I'm a wife, a mom of 4 little kiddos and the owner of Living Solutions Interior Design. My family and I recently moved from San Diego, CA to Nebraska and this blog is where I share inspiration, design tips and ideas, projects and every day life! Thanks for stopping by!

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