Have I shown you my dining room before? I sure hope so, because this is what it looks like right now.

The builder is resurfacing our garage floor since the epoxy flooring they originally applied is peeling. Thus, we had to take everything off the floor of our garage and move it to – you guessed it – the dining room. I guess it’s not a ton of stuff because we are “you have to be able to park both cars in the garage” people and there are some things on wall shelves, but it still wasn’t fun to have to move it all out.

Twice.

That’s right. Twice. We did this a few weeks ago the first time they tried to repaint the epoxy. Then, not three or four days after we were allowed to park in the garage again, the paint started peeling. Believe me when I say you didn’t want to be the builders’ rep on the other end of the line when I made that phone call. Lindsay has a wee bit of a temper. Ahh, the joys of living with Lindsay.

This go round, they scraped the epoxy off the floor and totally resurfaced the concrete. They started the process on Monday (so we moved everything out on Sunday) and we can’t move it back in until Saturday.

Oh, and when I say “we,” I mean my husband. I’ll be out of town celebrating my sister’s Bachelorette Weekend, so he’ll have to go it alone. Poor Tom. He always gets stuck with this type of job.

Have a great weekend everyone! And Tom? Be sure you do something more fun than moving the garage. It’s not that often that you have the house to yourself!

Procrastinator. P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-T-O-R. I can barely spell it, but I am one indeed. In fact, I’m procrastinating writing my procrastinator post by seeing how many times I can type a variation on the word procrastinate in one paragraph. The answer is five.

Then, Melissa issued a call to paint brushes, a procrastinator party of sorts where we share the projects we’ve been ignoring and then come back two weeks later and share our shiny, happy completed projects. I broke into a cold sweat and tried to ignore her. Although I do plenty of projects every week (every day, even!), I have a list a mile long and couldn’t even narrow it down to what I’d like to work on next. Wouldn’t I rather just make another wreath and call it a day?

But then, I realized that I need to make some changes that will do more for my home (and enjoyment level) than another stupid wreath (and also, Melissa kept talking about it and I got sucked in).

Which project should I choose? How about this area of my bedroom that currently houses Mr. Ugly-But-Comfy-La-Z-Boy Recliner, a dog bed, and the top of a decorator table that’s legs were eaten by said dog:

Or, I could recover the cushion on this chair to match my new window treatments in my craft room:

I could address my “Secret Shame”, my bookcases/dresser/TV/shelf combination that is my current collector of random, well, crap:

Note: I am a GENIUS who pushed our 2 old bookcases up to our old dresser and put a shelf on top to create a faux entertainment center in our bedroom. Much work needs to be done (painting anyone?), but I am very smug about how GENIUS this is going to be.

At the end of the day, the lofted playroom won my attention.

My son is so stinkin’ lucky to have such a great playroom! The thing is, he hardly ever uses it. My craft room is right off of the playroom, but I hardly ever use it. Why?

1. There is a total lack of adult seating in the playroom and Zack refuses to be more than 5 feet from me at all times. There was a couch in there, but in an only-in-Lindsay-land moment, my cat peed on it, I washed the cushions and left them on the back patio to dry, and my dog ate them while I was running errands. I found him in a pile of white, fluffy down in my backyard. I was so furious that I’ll I could do was laugh.

So, now we only have those adorable kid-sized club chairs, which Zack never even uses.

2. The lack of a window treatment makes it really warm in that room in the middle of the day.

And also? The view. Not long ago, that window looked over acres of former farm land. Now, we have this lovely sight:

At least I can let the new neighbors know if they have any hail damage on their roof, right?

3. There is a TV/DVR/cable box in the armoire, but I haven’t figured out how to hook up all three devices at once. So, we either watch Bolt or Cars or Wall-E or nothing at all.

There is so much (SO MUCH!) I need to do in this room, but I have decided that I will (try to) tackle three projects:

Project #1 – Window Treatments. I’m thinking I’ll do sheers in the center and a solid color panel on either side. I’ll find some fabric that I love to make a valence and then do a coordinating fabric on the bottom of the solid color panels. And of course, I’ll add some trim.

Project #2 – Armoire. DH I will figure out how to hook up my entertainment trifecta. I would also like to paint the armoire another color entirely, but I’m not sure if that is going to happen in the next two weeks. At the very least, I’m going to cover the panel inserts on the door with the same coordinating fabric I’ll be using on the window treatments.

Project #3 – Adult Seating. I DH will move Mr. Ugly-But-Comfy-La-Z-Boy Recliner upstairs. It kind of kills two birds with one stone – I get him out of my bedroom and have a place to sit in the playroom. Maybe I could come up with some way to dress him up? Suggestions?

What are your thoughts? Do you see something I should pay more attention to other than these three projects? And do you think I can do it all, or in true procrastinator style, will I put it all off until the last minute?