Thank you! Yes, it does feel soooo much more peaceful in there. I've gone in a few times since then and just sat and smiled as I looked around. :) LOL Can you tell I am easily entertained? I'm working on the basement now. Fortunately it wasn't really horrific, but it was the typical basement storage dumping ground. I took before pictures and I think it will be quite inspiring when it is done. At the rate I am going, it may end up taking less time than my office took. Paper just takes so dang long to go through! Fortunately the basement is mostly boxes and many of them are "whole" boxes (like boxes of canning jars for instance) that don't need to be gone through individually. My christmas and craft stuff will take longer to go through, but I am persevering and making great progress! When I am done, I'll post before and after pictures. The basement isn't finished, so neither set of pics will be particularly pretty, but I'm going for organized here. I'm actually ahead of schedule, since this was the project I had designated for February.

Thanks guys! Breezy: I cannot remember the paint color but my painter is still working in the basement so I'll ask him tomorrow. I wanted a warm grey for that room. Neutral but not a cold feeling. Enduring: the kids' bath is black slate. I love slate but did not want as much variation in size of the tiles as most multicolor slate tends to have lots of variation...easy to stub toes. Black slate does not and I loved the black/white theme so it is easy to change accessories as the kids grow up. The guest bath is slate but not black. It is actually mostly navy with some gold tones. Very interesting and again less variation in size. Still waters: we had the heating system reworked (boiler in basement so its radiant heat) so we adjusted some of the baseboard heaters and took that one out and kept the one on the back wall. Worked out well to add the extra storage.

very nice. But is there another entrance into the house? Is this the main hall. I ask cause if this is the main hall that you would use to move in and out of the house, then those lights could be a major issue getting bigger pieces of furniture through.

Wow, such a bright, happy, cheerful room that says "hello come on in and let's chat before I sit at my desk and get to work" and I love your doggie in the picture and am so sorry that she is no longer able to enjoy this room. If there was a Murphy bed in there, I'd invite myself to visit!