So try to bear with me as i try to explain what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it. If you don’t know my house, this might be a little difficult to follow, so i’ll explain my house first, then tell you what we’ll do.
My house is a two story brick home with a screened in front porch. When you first walk in the front door, you are in a hallway that leads you to the bathroom and dining room. On the immediate right is a bedroom. That was Kris’ room, or the guest room. On the immediate left is the family room, which has an open wooden way to the living room. As you stand at the front door, you can see the bay windows in the living room and the cast iron fireplace that stands in the middle of the far wall.
Walk down the hallway into the dining room and you’ll see a small bathroom on the right hand side that is under the stairway that turns and doubles back to the upstairs. When you get the dining room, there’s a little nook at the back of the room, that’s where i have my computer.
Once you get to the back of the dining room, turn to your left and you’ll see the living room again and then the kitchen is to the right of that. In the kitchen is the back door, a mud room (small) and then the stairs to the basement.
Back to the stairs that go upstairs. When you are at the bottom of those stairs, you go up about 6 steps and there’s a little landing, and then the stairs double back to continue up to the second floor. At the landing there are a set of windows there. (We’re replacing them and the bathroom next month) When you get to the top of the stairs, there’s Lain’s room on the left, Don and my room in the middle and then N’s room on the right. To the immediate right of the stairs is the bathroom.
So now that you have general idea as to how my house looks floor plan wise… this is what we’re going to do.
Mind you that right now… the whole house is carpeted… even the kitchen!!! We got the carpet out of the bathrooms, so they are tile and ceramic tile. Also, the WHOLE house is wallpapered. IT’s got this kinda mauve/vinyl type paper that we have to take down or the paint won’t stick to it. It’ll just bubble up and roll off. lol so we HAVE to take the paper down. ICK!!!
OK… so the bedroom that is/was Kris’… we’re going to make that into an office area. 
We’ll remove the paper in there and we’re going to paint it a golden color, not quite yellow, but not quite brownish either. We’ll move the computers into that room and worry about having company later!! LOL The bed and stuff that’s in there now, we’re going to put in the basement, so people can sleep down there if need be.
The hallway and dining room… we’re going to take up the carpet and put hardwood floors there… or we’ll just be restoring the floors that are already there. That will be from the front door, to the kitchen. The nook area in the dining room, we’ll put chair or benches there and make a little seating area perhaps. We’re going to paint it a green color.. not quite lime green, a little darker than that. We’ll also have to replace the chandelier that’s in here. We’ll be getting a new dining room suite too, with a china cabinet and all that.
Now, go back to the front door. The hall way will be painted a beige color, not white, but not tan either… more creamish. When you look into the living room and see the fireplace… that wall will be a red color. Like a darkish maroon. The rest will be a beige, or dark tan. The family room will be the same color beige. We’ll paint the fireplace brick the light cream color to match the walls in the hallway and then clean up the cast iron insert.
All in all we’re so totally excited about it and i’m going to start moving the stuff out of the bedroom and start tearing the wallpaper down soon. Probably friday or saturday. We’re still waiting on the final choices for the paints, but we’ have so much wallpaper to tear down that it’s ok if it takes a while! LOL
So what do you think? We’re excited and i so totally can’t wait to get started!!!!
This is the “office” looking from my chair in the living room. You can see the hallway and the office. They are both done with paint. 
This is the newest addition to our family. Nicole’s RAT! His name is Spiffers.