Beating Inertia

Well, it's official. After one full year of living in our new house, we're finally tackling the office. We held off all this time due to one simple fact: we didn't want to do anymore painting. After painting our living room, dining room, and master bedroom, we just kind of decided a break sounded like a good idea. The decision not to paint, though, started this chain reaction of events that resulted in an area that was pretty horrible.

Jeff and I both have TONS of music that we keep organized in a legal-sized 4-drawer filing cabinet that, when filled, weighs, well... a ton. When we moved, we had to transfer the music to boxes in order to lift the cabinet. We decided we would wait to fill the cabinet until we picked its final location in the new office. We haven't picked that location because first we needed to paint, which would require moving the filing cabinet a couple more times. So, whenever we needed to find music, it would be pulled out of the boxes to be sorted through with whatever was not required ending up on the floor... lots and lots and lots and lots of music... and envelopes and random pieces of paper and shopping bags and dust and you get the gist...

Adults shouldn't have rooms that looked like ours. It's pretty sad when my 15-year-old brother got great delight in running upstairs to peek into the room only to run back to my mother to tell her that our room was way worse than his...

So yesterday we cleaned it up. And today I picked a paint color. Well, I'm still trying to decide between two Behr paint colors: Skyline Steel (a bluish gray) and Prelude (a darker bluish gray). Then we're planning on getting this desk from IKEA:
and perhaps this orchid:

In any case, it feels much better to have this project started, even if it did take a year.