@Ashley Welch just asked her community, “The Build Lab” what members do in a certain situation and shared that her mom called what she does, “Turtling Up” Such a great name for this and I was inspired by her question to share what I do and also led to me sharing what I did over the weekend … All of it together felt like WAY more than needed to be in my little comment, so I came here to share my weekend project: I switched up three big areas of my home and have been organizing all the chaos that erupted since Sunday and it feels AWESOME!! I’ll take pictures when I’m done but in a nutshell, our dream is to tear down our house and build new but if we can wait a few years it might make sense to subdivide in order to get some extra money to help with building costs. So I don’t want to spend more than I absolutely need to in order to make our home cozy again after waiting six years for permission to subdivide and then having the housing market be in the dumps…. We could be spending a LOT to renovate/paint something that will hopefully be torn down in a couple years. But since I’ve decided we’re no longer going to live like we are dirt poor with paint chipping and gouges out of walls, cupboard doors falling because I don’t want to spend any time, effort or money while we’re in limbo, I jumped into this project with just a tape measure and some vague ideas! After my hubby and two youngest kids left for church on Sunday, I asked my 19 year old son to help me figure out if we could switch a built in bookcase from my daughter’s room into the Master bedroom and give her our full size beautiful bookcase from our room cause she didn’t like the built ins and I wanted the extra shelving space for organizing my stuff. Since one of our big office desks has been sitting essentially unused except for filing documents and being resting place for clothes that have been worn but are not yet ready for laundry, I decided that to switch my rectangular office desk with this bigger “L” shaped desk.