Unfortunately I don’t have a “before” picture of our room called “Martha’s Room”.   Martha’s room is one of our spare rooms and is located right off the kitchen.  I wouldn’t have chosen to put a bedroom right off the kitchen but that is where it is.  :)  We called it Martha’s room because Martha was our first over-night guest after I moved here in January after the wedding.   She spent quite a few nights on the couch in the livingroom before I got the room cleaned out.   Since she was our only over night guest until July, we decided to name the room after her.

Martha’s room was messy!  :)  I love it when she will call and I say “I am cleaning your messy room!”.  She doesn’t even feel bad!  Ha.  So Since I don’t have that before picture of “her” messy room you will need to  imagine that it was really really really messy.  The bed was stacked high with craft stuff, kitchen stuff, and all sorts of stuff … you had to look hard to see that there was a bed underneath it all.  It was bad.

Martha’s room used to be baby blue.  Incase you care, baby blue is my least favorite wall color … and in case you still care, my kitchen is currently baby blue!  The kitchen paint job is the last one on the list because it will involve the most work.   So I deal with it.  But I painted the spare room in June before we had Loren’s family visit.  This is the same green that is in my laundry room.   I love this green. 

Martha hasn’t stayed with us for awhile and our last over night guests were in July.  Even though I have picked up the room, in the past few months it has been used as my “multi- puprose room”.   If I can’t find a spot to put something, it ends up in Martha’s Room.  The dresser (which is to the right of the door) was stacked so high yesterday that when I had to place something new on top I would carefully place it and pray that the whole stack didn’t fall over.   The closet is full of kitchen overflow items and all the cookbooks are in there as well.  It’s a busy room.   

Loren’s aunt will be staying with us on Saturday night and so it had to be cleaned.  I worked most of yesterday re-organizing and sorting.  the closet is clean, the cookbooks are nicely stacked and you can see the bed!  It isn’t completely finished but it is close enough.  There are still some dresser drawers full of random “stuff” that should be gone though but those can wait. 

Doesn’t it look cozy?  A nice clean and organized room with the bed made makes me wanna take a nap!  :)