Before and After: the Bedroom

I'm back! And it's time for another edition of "Before and After"!

Here is the before shot of our bedroom. In case you can't tell by the photo, it is rather small. Just enough space for our bed and two dressers. The dressers in the first picture are against the wall that you can't see, opposite the side of the bed. Now, as I think I said before, when we first moved in, our room was quite zen, and I actually liked it that way. No clutter, no distractions. Just sleep space.

But I'm pretty sure I like it better now:

It doesn't even look like the same room, does it? I had to move the bed and dressers while I was painting, and I decided I like them better on opposite sides of the room. (Also, I didn't feel like swapping them again. They're heavy, and the room is tiny.) All of the walls are that light brown color, except for the purple one. I was a little concerned it might be too dark, but really, it just feels very cozy. And I think I like cozy better than zen.

So I'm done painting for a while. I finally used up all my paint, and with classes in full swing, I should probably be doing other things besides painting anyway. Our big conference is this weekend, and I cannot wait for it to be over. Well... I can't wait for like, a week after it's over, when I will have organized and filed all the receipts so we can get reimbursed from our various sponsors! It will be so so nice to not have that hanging over my head!

In other me news, I signed up for the Oakland Half Marathon at the end of March, and I am very very excited. I did 14.5 miles today, to make sure I could, and I can. :) It definitely wiped me out a little bit more than it used to, but that makes sense, since I haven't done over 10 in one go since my last marathon, and that was a full 6 months ago now. (Crazy!) I think I'll try to do San Francisco again this summer; it was a great race, and I don't think that course will ever get old.

In Roger news, his office is moving to San Francisco in less than two weeks! I am so excited for him! No more leaving home at 7:30 am and getting home at 9:00 pm! (Well, that should no longer be the norm, anyway...)

I want to tell you about my new foam roller, but really, I should finish folding laundry and actually use my foam roller instead of telling you about it. So I'll have to save that for next time! Adieu, bonne nuit, et tout.

Before and After: the Entryway

Here it is, the piece de resistance:

Do you love it? Do you hate it? I feel like it will be one of the two. I also feel like this room kind of grabs you by the hair and screams "CHEERFUL, DAMMIT, CHEERFUL". But I love it, and that's almost all that matters. Do you see the red kitchen wall peeking through the doorway?

Roger is pretty indifferent. He said he thought it would be too orangey with all the woodwork, and he might be right. But I like the contrast with the white baseboards and other white walls, and I'm going to do the rest of the room (decorations, slip covers for chairs) in cooler, non-orange colors.

And please excuse the ladder and other painting supplies. I just finished and I wanted to hurry up and put up pictures.

Trust me, the first few swipes of paint were kind of scary. But then it's too late, so you might as well keep going! I loved the color on paper, especially next to the red of the kitchen. They're both very saturated and kind of like, grown-up kindergarten colors. Then when I started on the wall behind the coat rack, I thought, "Uh-oh, this is too much." But I kept going, and I'm glad I did. It's not too too much when there's stuff on the wall. And when the initial shock wears off. ;)

Rye really liked the plastic drop cloth, for some reason.

Several times I heard lots of grunting and rustling sounds, and he was just jumping and playing around in the plastic, balling it up, rolling around in it, etc. I guess he's easy to please if you don't mind him destroying things once in a while.

And Huck, well, he just loves his dog-dad.

That's all for now! I have enough paint for one more room, and I have lots of ideas but no more money for the other two, so it might be a while before I finish any of them. And painting takes forever! And I'm kind of tired of it!

I got a bunch of books and posters for Christmas, so I might move on to other endeavors for a few days. Plenty of stuff to read, pictures to hang, and cleaning to do before classes start back up again!