We have been extremely busy around here lately. It all started when we tried to move the boy’s full bed to clean along the side of it where Evan deposited various items that can only be retrieved with a broom handle or a vacuum. The bed broke (hindsight, it should not have been moved by one person. Oops) leaving us to do some thinking about what to do about their room. They toughed it out for about a week on a mattress on the floor while I tried to contact the person who had a friend almost ready to unload bunk beds almost a year ago. I got no response, so we finally had to do something. And do something we did. We moved the boys to the room upstairs and instead of just switching that room which contained their toys with their downstairs bedroom, my sainted husband agreed to let me bring my craft room downstairs and put their toys in the bonus room naively intended as a play/craft room. You might remember these rooms as they were.
The bonus room.
The toy room.
The boys’s room.
And here’s how it all looks now. I’ve still got decorating to do, but it’s been a busy few weeks.
The boys upstairs bedroom. This is a no toy zone. I have purchased specially designed wedges so Evan cannot open the window as well as a fire ladder. Training for Lucas to commence soon. Working on finding just the right curtains.
We installed that lower bar so now Evan can be a big boy and reach his own clothes too. As they grow, we plan to put shirts on top and pants on bottom. The diaper box serves as the “too small for Lucas” temporary storage. Evan’s stuff now goes straight to Goodwill. There was room in their old closet to categorize the clothes Evan would grow into next, but it just looked cluttered. I’m perfectly happy having boxes in the attic for this again. Now that their room is upstairs it actually is perfect. The abercrombie bag contains the clothes Lucas will grow into next; we do still have to wait for the spring cleaning call from our supplier for the rest. For the record, no abercombie or Abercrombie shopping for us just yet.
They now have the bathroom all to themselves and we no longer have to clean toothpaste out of the carpet downstairs. Maybe I should iron that shower curtain…letting it hang there sure hasn’t done the trick and it’s been years. Below is the now kid stuff-free main bathroom…probably need to polish that silver bowl now.
Painting this little hall right outside the downstairs bathroom this week. Lots of scuffs from the kiddos as they headed to their old room.
Back upstairs for the real playroom:
And finally, my new scrap booking room downstairs. Because I like to repurpose things when possible, I think I’d like to try and dye the blue curtains from the boys’s old room black for this room. As you can see, I’ve already gotten busy trying to catch up on my books!
Clearly there’s some organizing to be done in the closet but I wanted to show it so you can see the full potential of this room. We do have to hang the bars for supplies above my desk, but we’ll get to that.
Those two red boxes each have 14 hanging file folders with labels from preschool year 1 through 12th grade for each of the boys’s drawings and important mementos from school. I may complete school scrapbooks for them or I might just bind their papers using a Zutter or something. No matter what I choose do with them, at least I have a small contained place to keep up with them.
I am so very excited about the changes in our home. I think that finally we have found the best use for each room and will get much, much more enjoyment out of it. Looks good, doesn’t it?!
