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Why can't it be that easy?

Cascading Style Sheets for the home, that's what I want. You know, keep the content of the room the same, just change the overall appearance. All at once. With no manual labor involved. That's my kind of remodeling project.

We're redoing our smallest bedroom. Bedroom is a funny name for it, since we've been using it as a junk room, and at 8'x10', it should really be a closet. But we're converting it into an office. So out with the barfy blue that adorned the walls, floor, and ceiling (yes, a blue ceiling - a barfy blue ceiling), and in with a nice bright marmalade for the walls, white for the trim, and a toasted oak wood laminate floor.

Easy, right? Sure.

Presently the contents of the room are in the hallway, the existing office, and living room. If my ass gets any bigger, I will not be able to fit through the clutter to get into the bathroom. God forbid there is a bathroom-related emergency, because that emergency will occur right there on the carpet outside the bathroom. I've already stubbed my toe twice during a middle-of-the-night bathroom excursion.

So, to date the walls have three coats of primer (that barfy blue is a persistent son of a bitch!), and the trim and ceiling are already painted white. Dave wanted to paint the trim first (before the walls) - I don't remember what his logic was. It was a bad choice. After all the trim was painted, we realized we'd have to pry off the newly-painted baseboards so we can lay the laminate floor. Luckily they came off with little damage.

Then the high-intensity lights we brought in there showed some pretty damn ugly flaws still in the walls. So Dave went in and sanded them. I bet they're going to look awesome and smooth, but now there's freaking dust all over the place.

I'm hoping to get the paint on the walls and the floor laid this weekend.

And to think this is the first room to be redone in the house. There's still 2 other bedrooms, the kitchen, living room, bathroom, basement...

If anyone comes up with CSS for the home, call me!