Spring Break project

This was our spring break project, and why I took my youngest 4 kids to their sister's and left them while Leon and I worked on this for 4 solid days!
Up until last year, I didn't have any of my scrapbooking things at home, and we didn't have an office for Leon's business stuff either. When Luanne and I closed the scrapbook store, we were faced with the dilemma of where to put left over things we needed to store & sell, along with all of our personal accumulation of scrapbooking items & supplies. We both had our problems, because where Luanne has the ability to throw out/get rid of stuff, I seemed to have missed that quality, and I have a terrible time letting go of anything that I MIGHT use someday. However, where she was lacking for space to expand her home to accommodate extra supplies, I have enough bedrooms I turned one of them into a scrapbooking/office. Later when another child moved out then I had another bedroom free, and I decided I liked it better for working in, space & light wise. SO, now I had two rooms full of JUNK!
My kids seem to move in and out of our house on a semi annual basis, so about the time one of the older boys moved back home, and didn't want his little brother sharing a room, then of course I was stuck again, and we ended up with a mattress on the floor for him in the middle of my mess, and it was time to seriously do something different!
Spring break was the perfect opportunity to tackle the mess when the kids could be out of the house. The job was actually a much bigger mess than you see here, because we had to take everything out of my "room to be", take counters & cabinets out of the first office to put in the new one, and in the middle of playing musical rooms, my living room was piled full with a path through it!
I still have some sorting & getting rid of to do, and next project is turning the other room back into a bedroom that is usable, because it still is piled with all the re-jects & misc that I refuse to pile back into my nice clean spacious and very usable scrapbook room!
I had a hard time trying to figure out how I wanted my finished room. The last picture shows a picture of a scrap room I found in a book. When I saw it, I knew what I wanted, and it worked perfectly. The only thing we had to buy were the shelf brackets for the closet. When I showed Leon the picture and told him what I wanted, he said he had a counter top in the garage he'd hauled away for someone, and thought it would work. Wow, just the thing! And, for those of you who are considerate enough to wonder if Leon got ANY office space out of this...Yes he did...3 of the cabinets are his, and we agreed to share counter space :*)