After pics of the upstairs

I thought I'd share the pictures of the little room before we tore out the (future) office walls.






All those doors going to nowhere. It was a maze back there.



The funny thing is that the house was originally listed as having three upstairs bedrooms, and the previous owner said we could even make four bedrooms up there. We looked at him like he was crazy. Oh the French and their penchant for tiny sleeping quarters. I had to remind myself that we weren't in Mexico anymore because Mexican bedrooms are humongous (they take their sleeping very seriously and rightly so).

We always avoid tiny bedrooms whenever possible. It bugs me to see a large enough home here in France but with bedrooms where you only have room for a bed an armoire and a nightstand. You see that so often here especially in new construction. It makes no sense. At my in-laws you have to suck in your stomach and walk sideways to go around the end of the guest bed and when you open the armoire the doors brush the bedside. They have a brand new home! We decided right away to go American and make two large kids rooms and a mezzanine office. We'd sleep downstairs in the closed off dining room until we could add on to the house.

And we'd make this room our office.








Those raised eyebrows when people toured the house and we told them we'd only have two bedrooms upstairs. Even my neighbor Myla the decorator drew sketches trying to convince us of all the other possibilities for creating little rooms, but in the end she agreed that our plan wasn't half bad.

Oh and before I steamed off the politically incorrect toile de jouy wallpaper I had to share a close up. Isn't he glad to be off those walls, poor fella serving tea to rich white folks for over forty years.