Painting the basement room!

I have been ignoring/avoiding this painting job for a few years now.  First, this room basically became our black hole.  It was the place where all the "stuff" we didn't want to see upstairs, got put.  It used to be my scrapbooking room and the kids play room, but the kids stopped playing down there and my tables became so cluttered with junk that I stopped scrapbooking period!  So, I finally have tackled the project of cleaning house and getting the painting done.  We have so MUCH junk down there it is ridiculous.  I donated a bunch of things, threw out two huge garbage sacks of trash and now I am finishing up the painting.  Here are the before pictures...



As you can see it was a complete wreck down there and it was painted this awful mustard color.  We have now lived here almost 5 years and I am barely tackling this room!  Maybe the reason we stopped venturing into this room is because the color on the walls were so unappealing!  Who knows... I am almost done painting it a soft beige/tan color and I will organize it all and post the pictures as soon as it is done.  Don't expect it soon though.  I'm thinking it will be done in the next few weeks... Happy day when it is complete, but until then I will enjoy the journey of making this room more appealing and useful!