Hindsight being 20/20...

I wish we'd painted the office before we moved in.

The office is half of what was once the downstairs bedroom. When the previous owners converted the parlor/living room to their bedroom (I suspect he had knee issues that made the upstairs difficult for him), they used a little less than half the small bedroom down here for a closet, and turned the larger portion into an office. (If we ever do the whole wild plan involving expanding the house slightly, I think we may undo this.) The office, like the parlor and closet, has blonde laminate floors (I'll undo this even if we don't expand or undo the office/closet split). It also, probably a result of depersonalizing for sale, has beige, beige, wow, I hate beige, walls. And trim. And doors.

When triaging activities, I determined we could live with it.

I forgot one key thing: it's the most-used room in the entire house.

And I really, really, really hate beige.