I’ve been thinking about the layout of the house for some time, of which I wasn’t completely happy about.

Today, we switched the office and the bedroom around, and suddenly, we have a bit more space for all we need the rooms for. We won’t have our clothes in the bedroom, but that doesn’t really matter.

We decided a while ago to renovate the second bedroom, partly because of the wall-to-wall carpet, partly because of the mint green color on the walls. When Sylvain told me he was getting a long weekend because of May 1st, I thought it might be a perfect opportunity to get the work done.

We cleared the room on Thursday. At first, we feared removing the carpet would be a tough job, but it turned out only to have been lain on top of a linoleum flooring.

Before laying the carpet, the previous "renovators" had tried to remove the lino, but ended up leaving a large, black stain instead, which is probably why they didn’t attach the carpet with glue. Fortunately for us! Instead of spending time on removing the carpet, we could look for the color we wanted on the walls.

Friday, we went to a the stores to pick up paint (and accessories) and parquet. For the walls, we wanted a really light color, but not white. We ended up getting a light blue paint for the walls, and white for the baseboards. The parquet is dark, and made of real, German oak wood.

We painted the "frames" the day before yesterday, and the walls yesterday. The blue color really looked blue before drying, but this morning it looked a lot better.

Am very excited to get the furniture in, and some paintings on the walls.