Our family room is going to be beautiful and a total treat for our family, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been a challenge to evacuate that room for a couple months and live like this in our bedroom:
And in our kitchen:
We feel like we have been totally displaced, but my heart skips a beat when I see our beautiful floor and my gut tells me that the temporary inconvenience will be worth it. This is the floor Jared and I agonized over a little (well, I agonized over for a while and when I finally told Jared I didn't think I would be happier with any other floor, he told me to go ahead and order this one) and it was worth every minute of lost sleep. I'm going to adore this floor, even though I know it's going to get scratched up. But that's fine too, because we have a family. We consist of parents, kids, and a dog. Kids and dogs get bumped & bruised, and houses of kids and dogs get bumped & bruised too.
When I say we feel like we have been totally displaced, I really mean it because in addition to getting the family room on our main floor done, we realized we were going to have to carry the same paint color down into the basement family room. There was no logical stopping point for the new paint color until we had wrapped up all the walls down here as well. So while we had no furniture in our upstairs family room, our basement family room looked like this:
And this is the room that absorbed some more of the fallout:
And while we were at it, we decided to get my mom's bedroom in the apartment painted as well:
Which mean that the other apartment bedroom looked like this:
And the apartment family room looked like this:
And in our kitchen:
We feel like we have been totally displaced, but my heart skips a beat when I see our beautiful floor and my gut tells me that the temporary inconvenience will be worth it. This is the floor Jared and I agonized over a little (well, I agonized over for a while and when I finally told Jared I didn't think I would be happier with any other floor, he told me to go ahead and order this one) and it was worth every minute of lost sleep. I'm going to adore this floor, even though I know it's going to get scratched up. But that's fine too, because we have a family. We consist of parents, kids, and a dog. Kids and dogs get bumped & bruised, and houses of kids and dogs get bumped & bruised too.
When I say we feel like we have been totally displaced, I really mean it because in addition to getting the family room on our main floor done, we realized we were going to have to carry the same paint color down into the basement family room. There was no logical stopping point for the new paint color until we had wrapped up all the walls down here as well. So while we had no furniture in our upstairs family room, our basement family room looked like this:
And this is the room that absorbed some more of the fallout:
And while we were at it, we decided to get my mom's bedroom in the apartment painted as well:
Which mean that the other apartment bedroom looked like this:
And the apartment family room looked like this:
So we literally have had no where to go except our bedrooms (remember the picture of our master bedroom above - not exactly a sanctuary) while this remodeling was going on. For like 2+ months. I cannot believe I am not on the brink of insanity. Or maybe I am and I just don't know it.
But what I do know is that sometimes we give up what we have for something better. There is an opportunity cost to a lot of things in life. I know there will be a time when I will look back on this project and I will forget the way the chaos felt because I will have beautiful rooms wrapped in beautifully colored walls to welcome me home. I will know it was worth it.
While I love my home, I also know that other sacrifices and inconveniences in life are also worth it. I walk into my home with a grateful heart for my blessings there, but I know that there are other things far more important than what my home looks like and I want those things to be the deepest in my heart. Each of us gets our own personal remodel in different ways and I always want to remember that sometimes it's the chaos and the hard-ness of the thing that makes it worth it in the end.
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