Organizing in our basement

Nelson has needed a new desk for a long time, he has been using mine from when I was in grade school. It was really small and just not working for him (white very small desk in middle of the picture below)



Our basement has also been pretty disorganized (pics below-make sure you compare them to the after shots later) and we really wanted to get everything taken care of.




As you walked down the stairs


Looking back at the stairs

So our weekend began. . .
We have spent a while looking for just the right thing for him. We finally found one on line at Target. It was a great deal and free shipping so we were very excited about that. It was supposed to be delivered last Thursday but it was raining that day so they took it back to the UPS distributing center. They were going to redeliver it but not until Monday so we decided to go pick it up. Unfortunately on our way there, we realized we forgot the directions at home. But not to worry, there was a UPS truck on the highway so we figured he was heading that way. So we followed him and low and behold, he led us right to the distributing facility and Nelson's desk! We brought it home and did some assembling (see next set of pictures)





Then we needed a file cabinet type thing for Nelson to put his things in and real computer chair for him to sit in. We checked out chairs and file cabinets at Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Office Max, Office Depot, Ikea (on line), Container Store, Overstock (on line) and figured out that we liked a cabinet and chair at Office Max. So we headed to one Office Max and found the chair on sale but did not find the file cabinet. For some reason (I can't remember now why) we didn't get the chair at that time but later had time to go to the Office Max by us. We found the chair but it wasn't on sale and the file cabinet. They didn't have the file cabinet in stock (except at a store far from us) and they weren't going to give us the sale price of the chair so we left feeling pretty frustrated. We went to the other Office Max close to us and they had the chair there on sale (or so we thought). They did not have the file cabinet. So we took the tag for the register and they said it wasn't on sale. We brought them the sale tag and they said it was a mistake that it was listed on sale but thankfully they owned up to their mistake and gave us the sale price anyway. Now we just needed the file cabinet. It was exactly what Nelson wanted so we decided to make the drive to the little bit further away Office Max to get it. They had it there and we were so releaved! So after we got home, we did some more assembling and some major organizing. Here are some after pictures of the basement:


As you come down the stairs


Looking back at the stairs


Hanging out area


Nelson's new desk and"office area"


New Desk


Whole hanging out area again


Nelson is very excited about his new desk


Looking back from the TV area

So that has been our weekend so far and we feel good about all our accomplishments! Sorry for the world record long post, if you have made it this far, you should be proud!