Making a mess to tidy up

Good Friday was spent making the house into a complete mess.

Specifically, the Grand Shuffle had begun. The Grand Shuffle being the massive domino effect of room reassignment and associated property relocation. One of the last processes for this project, but it's a big one.

So, as well as belongings being all over the place, the rooms are changing names which makes explanations messy too. Just in case this attrocity wasn't enough:

Let's take this room by room.

1st floor, back bedroom.

Formerly the grownups bedroom, becoming a generic hobby room.

Bed was dismantled and dragged next door to the front bedroom.

Wardrobes were emptied, dismantled and relocated upstairs. Clothes currently residing in my office room until their new home has been emptied.

Large shelving unit was reassembled, slid into position, restocked with it's gubbins. Looks like it was made to fit that space but it's pure coincidence.

1st floor, front bedroom

Formerly the bedroom of child 2 and child 3, to become our bedroom.

Child 2 had already moved but she helped dismantle child 3's cot and move this upstairs. 

The large shelf unit needed dismantling to move rooms. At one point I was lying underneath it, holding it with various limbs, trying to prevent dowells from getting snapped in half, whilst also unscrewing bits. May have accrued some light bruising.

Remaining floor clutter moved next door to the back bedroom.

Note that the fitted wardrobes in this room can't be emptied yet. Once they are, the health and safety issue on the landing can all be hung up nicely in their new forever home.

Later, once I'd gone to get the offspring fed and  ready for bed, Tracy reassembled our bed and generally turned it into a functional bedroom.

2nd floor, back bedroom.

The newly constructed room for children #2 and #3.

Cot was reassembled by child 2. She did a great job and loved the electric screwdriver.

First wardrobe was mostly assembled. Ran out of time. And by ran out of time I mean I looked at the clock and went "oh s**t the children still need to have their tea".

As you can see, the wardrobes are going to fit nicely. Once assembled, all the children's clothes can be moved here from the built in wardrobes downstairs; freeing up space for our clothes to be rehomed.

What a day!