It all started with bunk beds. Eli is now in a big bed, which meant we needed to buy a new base and mattress. We decided to give Eli Grace’s base and get some bunk beds for her room. Grace’s room was an office before we moved in, so there were lots of office cupboards in the room.

Grace’s room when we moved in

We had already taken out part of the desk to get Grace’s be up against the wall (we took out the part with the pink water bottle on it), and needed to at least take out the cupboards above her bed to make space for the bunk bed. The floor also very unfortunately had carpet tiles stuck onto the wood which come off easily, but leave the sticky strips behind.

The bunk beds were scheduled to arrive today (Monday), so on Saturday I was up early and taking out the required cupboards. After we took the cupboards out, we looked and this and Donné suggested that it might be nice to have the bunk beds up against the other wall (where the desk and cupboards still were), and then put the remaining desk into the corner (where the bed has been).

Looking at it, this really made the most sense in the bedroom, as it would open it up a bit, and Grace wouldn’t be sleeping right next to the window.

Well….if we’re going to do that, then we should really just take out all these carpet tiles at the same time….and that means we’re going to have to sand the floor….and behind the cupboards and desks the walls are a different colour, so we’ll need to repaint them, as well as fix the large hole in the wall from a ventilation duct….and this also involves removing the duct’s blower electrics, and getting the intercom wiring out of the cupboard….and what are we going to do with the cupboards when they’re out of there? Well, we’ll put them into the outside room to use as a second office, and any left overs can go into the garage for extra storage…which also means we need to sort out the outside room and organise all the things in there, and organise the garage so that there is space for everything.

Sounds like we have a few weekends of work lined up for ourselves, all because we decided on bunk beds. But it is actually all quite exciting as Grace’s room is going to look great with the floors sorted out, and already feels much bigger with all the cupboards out, and we’ll sort out Eli’s room’s floor at the same time (also carpet tiles), and the outside room will finally get organised after standing static for the last two months, and the garage will get organised – all good things.

So we set about getting the cupboards out (which seemed to be held onto the wall with two screws, a prayer, and some compression keeping them in place), and clearing out the floor tiles.

This is how Grace’s room currently looks

Grace is now sleeping in the playroom on her new bunk bed which arrived today

And our house is chaos with cupboards and desks lying all over.

Sometimes one simple choice just spirals out of control.