a fun change

I always love a home improvement project, even (especially?) when I'm not the one doing the work!

When we first moved to this house, there were about 7 "indents", large niches? (I don't know what they are called), waiting to be filled.  In the upstairs playroom we had a huge entertainment wall unit built.  Some of the niches were filled with Mark's office furniture & the dining room china hutch, which fit quite nicely.  But the family room TV didn't quite fill the space and the desk I was using was cramped and small and made me feel like I was in a cave.  This week that changed.

We went from this:

To this (had to upgrade the TV of course):

And from this (actually it was worse than this because I have an additional screen besides my laptop, so my screen was squished onto the desk and my laptop was on a TV tray off to the side. But I couldn't find any other picture.  Attractive, right?):

To this:

I can't believe how much I love my desk!  I've never really had a desk of my own--I always shared with the kids or just had that cramped small make-do desk.  Of course, that doesn't mean anyone will get any more work out of me....