The Great Bedroom Makeover: mission accomplished.
It's done. Except for the sheets (still in the drier), a quilt, and a wallboard anchor (needed for the shelf track on Colleen's side). The mattress bags have gone missing, but I can add them later.
yesterday: & take clothes out of dressers, put into large ziploc bags today: * clearing non-clothes out of dressers * 12:30 dressers done; salad for lunch * 16:58 Tired bear. beds out, dressers out, wall cleaned, floor cleaned, shelf standards up, flea powder down, chili and rice started. * Lenny installed on argo (Thinkpad A30). Setting up. * 7:30ish beds installed, pathways mostly cleared % some back pain, but managable. very tired, which isn't surprising. ! very close to the edge. Fell apart when Colleen needed bags cleared from the path to the commode. * 20:20 shelves and closet pole up on my side. Still deciding whether to slide Colleen's track over. -> yes, but it needs a sheetrock screw * 21:15 everything done but sheets, quilts, and Colleen's shelves
I had help -- lots of fantastic help -- from raindrops. He's tall, strong, and knows how to clean things. His housemates, ravan and datapard, also came over and kept Colleen company.
The bedroom looks both larger and lighter now that the two huge oak dressers are gone. Their storage capacity will be a bit hard to replace, but on the other hand it'll be harder to lose track of things in their depths. They've been replaced by 2-foot-long Elfa shelves with closet poles. Later I may add drawers, but they may not be necessary.
I am feeling accomplished, productive, and pretty thoroughly depleted.
The office makeover will have to wait.