Right before I had baby number 8, I had an intense (VERY INTENSE) desire to repaint and redecorate. Some define it as nesting; I defined it as necessity!
Here’s the before we started with, about 5 weeks before baby was due:



And here is the AFTER, just 5 weeks later! We work best under pressure, ha!


I bought the two blue patterned sofas on Facebook Marketplace for $250, and we bought a new polyester flax cover for our Ikea Farlov sofa on Amazon (here’s a similar cover, in white). We also picked up a 65-inch frame TV on sale to update our very old one.