Ok, so after a couple of weekends working on the room, I've made some progress. The room has been primed and painted, and the first set of shelves have been built, stained and mounted on the wall. Of course, this means the second set of shelves and the desk underneath still need to be built... -.-;;
At first, I thought, they make this look so easy on tv like on Trading Spaces, While You Were Out and such, but then I remembered, I'm doing this by myself. No one helping other than to hold something in place for a few seconds. I pretty much mounted the shelves by myself which was a bit of a chore, but it got done!
Before:
After (so far with a few cool books to give it character!):
Now, the current furniture will disappear after I've built replacements for them so they'll pop up in the pics in the meantime. Not sure what that white dot is in the After pic since it's not really on the wall...