Flashback: Trading Spaces

Once again, the Book Keeper is guilty of neglecting the blog.  The Book Keeper traded a book for a paint brush this week.  It was not a good decision.  Due to several fun interruptions over the weekend, I did not get the room finished before having to return to work.  Last night I looked around the room and realized that I would not finish.  I began thinking that perhaps I should just pack everything up and wait a couple of weeks to finish when "things slowed down."  Then I remembered what I told myself earlier in the evening:  "Finishing this room is your homework."  I would never turn in an incomplete assignment, so why would I stop when the room was incomplete?  One thought led to another and all of a sudden I remembered those fun Trading Spaces episodes.  Do you remember?  Vern, Doug, and Genevieve would all give out the "homework" that had to be finished by the next morning.  UGH.  Now I know how those poor people felt painting into the wee hours of the morning.  Ahh, good memories, but where is the connection to books.  Well, when I started looking for paint colors, I got out my old Trading Spaces books!  They have some crazy ideas, including the one where they glued plastic flowers to every square inch of a powder room.  I did not decide on anything too crazy, but the books did inspire me to "think outside the box."