Git R Done: Week 2

I told you yesterday that I would be back today, with this weeks update on my self imposed challenge.

So, I am here this morning to follow through on that promise. Like I said, this challenge has really helped me to get the ball rolling on a lot of projects that I have been putting off. It's sort of ironic to me how much of a procrastinator I am. I do love to clean, organize, and declutter and to me, my home is at its best when things are simplified. For instance, the less stuff hidden in the closet--the better, the less papers on our desk waiting to be taken care of--the better, and the less hanging over my head waiting to be finished--the better. For me, this goes as far as the more organized and concise my files are on my computer--the better.

Yea, I know, I know. I'm weird. But, this is me. :)

So, when it comes to getting something accomplished, you would think that I'm all about jumping on 'it,' whatever 'it' may be. Wellll, see that's where it becomes ironic to me. I tend to push things to the side and declare that they can wait till later. Often later is the last possible minute. Sometimes later is even too late. I think it has something to do with being-overwhelmed-by-all-that-my-mind-perceives-needs-to-be-done-so-I-just-keep-putting-it-off type of thing. Yet again, weird, but...its me. At least I realize my flaws here people!

Oh you have flaws too?

Great!

Let's form a club. Then we can be BFFs. FOREVA!

Something like Flawed Persons Anonymous?

OK. OK. Too far.

So, lets talk about this weeks results.

I set out this week to accomplish this idea found on Pinterest, decide which bed we want to use in our new master bedroom, and finish putting one coat of primer on the entire kitchen in our house.

The Pinterest project that I picked this week took all of two minutes for me to accomplish. I thought that a short project was in order after my experience with last weeks. Also, since our computer will be in our living room in the new house, I wanted to pretty it up a bit. Right now it looks so electronic. So after finding the project on Pinterest and the tutorial from anamu I went for it. The whole easy and pretty thing had me convinced.

So, I grabbed an old book, I had laying around, and a kitchen knife. The tutorial called for a utility knife, but I didn't have one..so this did the job:

I then proceeded to cut along the inside of the front and back cover. Basically, you just cut the binding that is attaching the cover to the pages of the book:

After all of the separation anxiety dissipates, you should have a cover and then a chuck o' pages. This is the point where I tried it on for size. Here is a before picture of the current set up on our computer desk:

Here is an after with the two options that I wanted to try. I figured it could cover either piece of equipment. 

What do you think? I don't know, I'm not completely sold. It does make the area look pretty, but I want something more. It would be awesome if I could cover up more than one piece of equipment at a time. I do have a few other ideas whirring around in my head, though. So, I will let you know if I decide to try something else!

On to the bed decision. Not really a big deal, but something that I had been procrastinating on for awhile. Basically, we have two beautiful queen bed frames and I just didn't know what one I wanted in our master bedroom. I also purchased a new rug for our house and had to decide which one matched better. So, on Monday, I decided to figure it all out.

As you can see, I rolled out the new carpet in our (now empty) dining room and set up the bed that we had sitting on our porch all winter. See more pictures here.  Originally we didn't think that option two was going to be able to fit in our new master bedroom. With the slanted ceilings it was just too tall (option one is about three inches shorter than option two.) I was a little upset about this because I thought that option two matched our new rug the best.

But after setting up the bed I realized this:

What a wonderful surprise! Because of this, the bed will have to stick out about four inches from the wall. I excitedly called Jonathan and asked if this would make a difference. His response was 'Yes!' Because of this, the bed can be about three inches taller!! Wahoo! Option two it is! Definitely a wonderful and unexpected surprise.

Oh and as for the kitchen. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. The before pictures:

and the wonderful after pictures! Oh first, here is a close up of our wonderful paneling compared to the white paint. Don't you just love the early 1800's theme?

And without further ado!

So, what do you have on your weekend to do list? Stay tuned to see what we accomplish next week!