The (almost)Family Photo

After 2 trips to IKEA in less than 24 hours, we finally have our "grown up" bedroom nearly completed!  All we need now is one more nightstand and a new coat of paint (we're thinking that we might go with a shade of sage) and we'll be done.  Last night's adventure with the dresser took over 3 hours for us to finish (we definitely had underestimated the amount of time it was going to take us, being that we didn't even get the chance to go see a movie afterward), but today's nightstand only took 30 minutes (which I did on my own while L was at the driving range), and the bed frame only took about an hour with the both of us, though I was the only one turning any screws since L blistered both of his hands pretty badly after golf.  Once we rearranged the room a bit and stood back, we felt much better and comfortable in our grown up bedroom compared to the mattress on the floor and non-matching furniture that we were using up until now.  Just to refresh your memory, here's the before:

 And here's the after:

It's amazing how much better we feel about the room in general, and how much more at home we are now with the house.  Even the simplest changes seem to brighten up our moods as we make the house more "us."

Lastly, here's the (almost)family photo, all we're missing are the degus and the birds-