Cleaning House

We had the carpets in the pet room, office, and living room cleaned yesterday. We figured it was time - what with Carly using the carpets as her litter box for awhile there. (Side note: Getting rid of the enclosed litter boxes seems to have cured that. Yay! (Knock on wood))

Carpet cleaning necessitated the moving of furniture which activated the "let's reorganize and rearrange the house" mode in Adam's brain. Coupled with the fact that JC has been jumping up by the TV and pushing it all over the place, it was pretty much inevitable that we'd be moving things around.

So, after the carpets were cleaned yesterday morning, we went out shopping while they were drying. Here are the results of (mostly Adam's) hard work:

Living Room:

Before


After


He hung the TV on the wall, replaced the TV stand, and got rid of the media racks.

Office:
I can't really find a good "before" picture...

After






The bed has been taken down to the basement - I mean, who ever visits us? (Hmm, we must be hard to tolerate. Bwahahahaha.) We made the room into a kind of "library" or "study." We replaced the bed with two chairs. We moved the TV stand from the living room into here. We took the big bookshelf downstairs and brought up two smaller ones for our books. We also moved one of the media shelves into this room for our DVDs and VHS cassettes. (On a side note: we took the majority of our DVDs to Media Xchange this afternoon and what we got for them pretty much paid for the new TV stand. Woo!)

Pet Room:

Before




After




Nothing too shocking here. We just got rid of the rolling boxes and got some cheap Walmart ones. We also replaced the spill carpet and vinyl runner.

So, not too shabby for a day or so of work. Once again, mostly Adam's work. I...supervise. And alphabetize.

The cats of course were a nuisance throughout the whole thing. They love to explore places that were previous inaccessible. Or off limits. Or both. Connor does seem to be enjoying the new set-up in the office:





I just picture him in a smoking jacket, reading a book, smoking a cigar, and drinking brandy. He gives off that distinguished kind of vibe. Or I'm just nuts. That's a possibility as well...