Project Kids' Room

Since we are adding one more to the family soon, we needed to get the kids moved downstairs to make room.  We only have two bedrooms upstairs - our master and the tiniest room in the house.  Lucy and Sammy have been sharing that room and it got quite crowded. So we decided it was time to move them downstairs.

 

There is a bedroom right at the bottom of the stairs that has served as my craft room/office/where-should-we-put-this-throw-it-in-the-craft-room room.

 

We spent 3 days over Christmas break organizing, cleaning out, and emptying the room.

 

We should have taken a "before" picture! It was bad, let's just say that!

 

We took a little break and then got back to it in February.

 

We added casing around the door and the closet, added a new doorknob, painted the door, cleaned the carpets, and built shelves in the closet.

 

The shelves were our biggest project and we spent pretty much every weekend for a month working on them.  But I love how they turned out!

With the shelves we don't have to get another dresser and it's a much more efficient use of space. I also used my Silhouette to cut out some shapes and letters so the kids can be more independent with their clothes.  My favorite are the little undies on the baskets at the bottom. :)  I fold the clothes now and the kids put them away.

 

We moved the kiddos downstairs at the beginning of spring break, decorated, created a "gallery wall" for their art, and I sewed some curtains for the closet and the window.  This is a little reading corner for them.

 

I love the way the gallery wall turned out.  I found some old frames in my stash and a couple at DI. Then I spray painted them in bright colors and added cork board to one and decorated clothespins to the others.  The kids have a place now to hang their art.

 

They have done great downstairs and it's so nice to have so much more room for them and and their things.