Building Shelves - TV room

When we moved into our house we made a big list of things we wanted to change when we found money to do so. 

Here is a good idea of our list:
Put in a sound system for the tv room and upgrade to a larger tv

Build dvd shelves and book shelves in tv room

Put in a fireplace (luckily the house came with one...just not installed)

Fix and paint the back deck

Redo our bedroom closet to maximize the organization and space

We've been in our house for one year and 9 months. The first thing we did from that list is upgrade our entertainment area (tv and sound). We did not get to any of the others until recently. About a week ago Sterling built the dvd shelves and we painted them. That project surprisingly only took a day and a half. 

Here are pictures of the room now...

 This is a "before" photo of the half of the room that has a window. Currently Sterling is building the book shelves on this wall as I create this post.

 Another view of the dvd shelves. We are very happy with the way the dvd shelves turned out and think it makes the room more fun.

 

We immediately went from that project to our bedroom closet. It has bugged me a long time that our closet is so small. I had to keep half my dresses in the guest bedroom. 

So Sterling moved the one shelf that was in it higher. He moved the hanging bar higher and added a second one so I can fit twice as many clothes in it. We moved our shoe shelves to his side of the closet because he only needs one layer of hanging clothes space. Now all our shoes are together on one side of the closet. I love it!

Last year I really wanted the fireplace in as soon as possible because it's freezing downstairs in the winter...especially in the tv room. But it's looking like that is going to be our last project. 

Recently we have been noticing that our back deck is so bad it will probably have to be fixed within the next year. There are boards that are rotten and no longer stable. We will have to replace some board and repaint the entire thing.

We absolutely love our home. We watch Property Brothers and similar shows that show homes and finding the right home or creating the right home. And I absolutely am proud of ours.