Yessa Bedroom Refresh

A couple days into their 9 days at home, Yessa announced that she wanted to make her room feel cozier. She thought this could be accomplished by moving the book shelves from the book nook to her room. Buds was initially reluctant. He liked how the book nook looked and felt. Then Yessa used me as a bargaining chip.

"We could move my desk into the book nook to make Mom an actual office. Don't you think Mom deserves an actual office, Dad?"

And so the work began. I am always looking for ways to move things out of our house, so going through the books was cathartic for me. We have a lot of books still, but each time we go through them, it feels lighter and lighter.

Once the books were cleared out, we were ready to sand and paint the bookshelves a lovely yellow Yessa had chosen to match the wallpaper in her room.

While we wait until we can get books put back on the shelves, the rest of the spaces can be reset.

After 24 hours and freezing cold open windows, the paint was dry enough for us to finish the job.

It looks and feels beautiful, just as planned.