Holiday Home Improvements

Posting has been particularly light because I have spent much of my long holiday weekend working in my basement. It is the first phase of creating a nursery for Baby Belcher.

The upstairs guest bedroom is going to be the nursery. But in order to change that room into a nursery, the furniture must be moved to the basement spare bedroom.

But the basement spare bedroom is the Art Room. So the Art Room needs to be moved to the basement family room. And in order to move all of the Art Room stuff, which includes paints, clay, beads and other stuff, I had to create a workspace, and preferably something sturdier than the card table we were using before.

So I bought and assembled some base cabinets and topped them with a solid countertop. (pictured above.) Its pretty nifty, has room for storage, and is a great height for either standing or sitting on a tall stool or chair. We can now move the rest of the supplies from the Art Room to the new workspace. When we get a few extra bucks, we will also install some hanging cabinets and more corner shelving.

Now we have an empty Art Room that we are going to spackle and paint to turn it into the new Guest Bedroom.

As an aside, it should be noted that I shopped both Home Depot and Lowes to plan and build this project. Lowes had everything I needed at great prices. Home Depot had very little in the way of base cabinets and no counters in stock. I will likely be using Lowes for the rest of the nursery projects.