House Project Update: The Great Room Reshuffle

Remember at the start of the summer when I made the kids their summer bedroom?  Well two months later we realized the twins are really getting too big and too mobile to be in the smallest room in the house.  So we have started shifting rooms around again.

Once I had an office/guest room / workout room:

Now, the kids have their new upstairs bedroom!

So far it's gone very well - the kids have slept much better not being next to the babies.  However, I feel deeply unsettled about my current landing space, which now looks worse than ever:

Does anyone want to buy a daybed?  Is "mirror stacked next to disassembled day bed" a good idea?

The former kids room is now a baby play room:

This room was one of the first rooms we painted when we bought the house.  It turns out we both picked terrible colours and painted it badly.  Then we added a loft, which meant the ceiling needed repainting too.  So we are using this opportunity to get the room painted, and we have decided to go with white this time.

For whatever reason, when originally picking colors, I decided to combine two greenish shades in this room, but not any shades that the paint company recommends I combine.  

So it was 3 walls of Apple White

And one wall of willow tree

The paint companies own website has some really good suggestions for color combos.  This was not one of them.

Also, Willow Tree is the NHS colour, a fact I realized while having a home birth and looking at that wall a lot.

On Thursday the painter is coming to make the whole room white.  Once dry, we can move the babies into their new room.  And then the kids and babies will be in their correct rooms, so that soon we can hopefully address the biggest problem:

Combined office horror.  FYI, I have one desk and one set of drawers and 1 set of weights.  Andy has... more hobbies.  More drawers and more things.  This is no way for an adult human to work!  I am hoping we can move to something a bit more normal before I start work for real on Tuesday, but I am also aware that house projects move slow, house projects with four kids move slower, and house projects dependant on painters availability may move slowest.

And also, is it a great idea to start medium house projects during already chaos transitions?  Probaby?