This Is Progress, Right??

We ARE making progress on the guest house but it’s still not as far along as it should be.  It’s been a matter of keeping everything running on schedule but there’s always that one (or sometimes two) that throws a big monkey wrench in the whole works and brings progress to a halt.

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In this case it was the plumber.  Or maybe it was the electrician.  I think it was both of them that kept calling and rescheduling but I can’t keep them straight since one is Donny and one is Danny.  They’re both very good at what they do and therefore end up so busy that our little piddly job just gets wedged in there wherever they’ve got a few free hours.

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Because the plumber and electrician didn’t get done in time, Hunka Burnin Love couldn’t finish putting up the rest of the sheetrock so the tape and texture guy could mud the walls so the painter (that would be me) could begin painting.  I think I’ve already told you all this so now my problem is how to fit in all the things I want/need in there and still have room for a queen size bed.  After all, what good is a guest house if there’s no place for guests to sleep?

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Looking at the east side

As you can see from the above picture, it’s basically one big open room and one bathroom.  That white door you see on the tan metal wall is the door into the barn.  If I find a Murphy bed, it will need to go on the sheetrocked wall next to that door and it would open in front of that door, which is fine since it wouldn’t block the door when it’s folded up.  That spot is the only place for a bed (that I can see).

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Looking at the west side.

The picture above is of the west side.  You can see HBL and I were able to get the upper cabinets hung even though we had to re-do them twice because of a measuring error not on my part before he left and to the right of the kitchen is the bathroom.  If you think the fans look weird, you’re right but it’s only because we don’t have the blades on yet.  We also don’t have the antique school house lights hung and I hope they get put up before another one gets broken.  ack!

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The lights and their housings.

These lights are really large but they don’t look so big in this picture.  The two with the rods will hang in the kitchen and three of the other lights will hang in the living/bedroom area.  Oh, and yes….I have cleaned them up but I like the old patina on the housings and so I just used a little WD-40 to clean them and we’ll hang them just like that, rust spots and all.  Our electrician thinks I’m nuts.

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Another view of the west side and the sleeping loft.

From this angle you can see the bathroom better and also the kids sleeping loft.  That platform over the bathroom will have a spiral staircase leading to the loft.  Oh, and yes there will be railing around the loft because I can just picture one of our 13 grands trying to walk along the top of the cabinets or swing from the light fixtures.   That ugly nice rug isn’t staying.  It’s where HBL has been putting the cabinets together so he doesn’t scratch up the floor.  He did that voluntarily.  I swear.

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While HBL was gone and it was rainy and dreary and I had nothing else to do, I found a program that lets you draw a room to scale and arrange furniture so I grabbed my tape measure and went to work.  This is what I came up with and bear in mind, it’s tentative…..sort of.   Everything but the bed and the television are things we’ve scavenged, reclaimed, or found and already have so the measurements are pretty close to scale. *I can see HBL rolling his eyes right about now*

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Here’s what I need from y’all.  That queen bed could be horizontal in that spot if need be, because there’s room to have it a couple of feet in front of the door but maybe it would be better to put a Murphy bed there that could be pushed up and out-of-the-way but everything I’ve found online is sort of fugly or plain or weird looking.  I need your suggestions to solve this problem.  HELP!

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HAPPY TRAILS, Y’ALL