Renovations at Last!

Our house seems to be a little caotic these past few weeks while our main level and basement are transformed into, well, better than what they are now. We knew that our basement needed to be finished since I would be homeschooling all three of our children this year! Yes, three kids in two grades, and no, I am not nuts! So, better late than never, we asked a friend of a friend to help us this this mighty task. Our friend began about three weeks ago and and now we have most of the drywall put up. hopefully in two weeks, we will be completely done. However, my wonderful husband decided that since we were doing the basement, we should fix up the main level as well. So, while our friend is working on the downstairs, we are busy painting and doing the floor upstairs. The wall color is a buttercream yellow and the floor is a darker oak, the pergo stuff. I think it will look really nice, but I am kinda stumped on curtians and decor. Any suggestions, please let me know.
Our basement is going to be a multi-task room, for entertainment/schoolroom/exercise room. We are really excited to have all of this done, and we are even more excited that we are in a finacial place to be able to do something like this. God is so good how He prepares you to handle the future.
I do not think that since this has gone on, our house has been clean! I mean, sure it has been picked up, but not really cleaned! We are wanting to get a lot of the clutter out, but are unsure in how to do this. Any suggestions, please let us know!