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Not me, silly! Willow.
We have 7 children - 2 boys and 5 girls. We have 7 bedrooms in our home.
(No, we are NOT millionaires and we don't live in a mansion.) Our house is around 2800 sq. ft. One of the bedrooms came from a transformed office, and two others were built into our 3 car garage - after much debate we decided it was more important for our kids to have their own room than our cars.
As the kids have grown and moved out, another moves into their own room. Right now there are "No Rooms at the Inn," but this will change soon as one more heads off to college in the Fall.
Time to reorganize and rearrange sleeping spaces!
When Willow first came to live with us we had a little portable playpen that we put into our master bathroom. This was fine as long as we didn't have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. (Have I mentioned that I have had FOUR babies and my last was almost 10 lb.?! Did I mention that I am not a big person? Put those two thoughts together and you might figure out why those night time potty trips are not bound to stop.)
Willow in the bathroom was not necessarily the best situation when Boyfriend needed to get up and get ready for work, either.
Time to get creative!
We happened to be all out of bedrooms, but we did have a big walk in closet in our room.
Unfortunately it was full.
(Yes, I do have a little shoe problem, but we all have our vices, right?!)
First things first. All of my clothes got transferred into the persons closet with the most space, which happened to be Uncle T's. What would a 15 year old guy have hanging in is closet other than a few dress shirts and a jacket or two? There was a ton of room for my clothes. I hadn't really thought about what his friends might think when they looked into his closet and saw a lot of cute dresses and even cuter shoes! I think I handle it pretty well by not bringing up the fact that when he was 2, he used to think his sisters tutu was his. Self control, yep. Sometimes I have it, sometimes I don't. It is nice to know I have good blackmail material on him -- just in case!
The next steps were to tear out the shelves and paint the walls so it was cleaner and cozier.
We have 7 children - 2 boys and 5 girls. We have 7 bedrooms in our home.
(No, we are NOT millionaires and we don't live in a mansion.) Our house is around 2800 sq. ft. One of the bedrooms came from a transformed office, and two others were built into our 3 car garage - after much debate we decided it was more important for our kids to have their own room than our cars.
As the kids have grown and moved out, another moves into their own room. Right now there are "No Rooms at the Inn," but this will change soon as one more heads off to college in the Fall.
Time to reorganize and rearrange sleeping spaces!
When Willow first came to live with us we had a little portable playpen that we put into our master bathroom. This was fine as long as we didn't have to get up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. (Have I mentioned that I have had FOUR babies and my last was almost 10 lb.?! Did I mention that I am not a big person? Put those two thoughts together and you might figure out why those night time potty trips are not bound to stop.)
Willow in the bathroom was not necessarily the best situation when Boyfriend needed to get up and get ready for work, either.
Time to get creative!
We happened to be all out of bedrooms, but we did have a big walk in closet in our room.
Unfortunately it was full.
(Yes, I do have a little shoe problem, but we all have our vices, right?!)
First things first. All of my clothes got transferred into the persons closet with the most space, which happened to be Uncle T's. What would a 15 year old guy have hanging in is closet other than a few dress shirts and a jacket or two? There was a ton of room for my clothes. I hadn't really thought about what his friends might think when they looked into his closet and saw a lot of cute dresses and even cuter shoes! I think I handle it pretty well by not bringing up the fact that when he was 2, he used to think his sisters tutu was his. Self control, yep. Sometimes I have it, sometimes I don't. It is nice to know I have good blackmail material on him -- just in case!
The next steps were to tear out the shelves and paint the walls so it was cleaner and cozier.
Add a crib, a mobile, a cute painting
and we had ourselves a mini-nursery!
This has worked out great for the past 9 months, but it is time to come out of the closet.
I want my shoes closer to me.
So now the fun begins! I get to plan how to decorate her bedroom! Being that her favorite thing in the world is being outside, I am thinking about a nature theme-- birds, trees, flowers, bees! Up there is the bedding we have for her crib. The crib is brown, not white as shown in the photo.
I want my shoes closer to me.
So now the fun begins! I get to plan how to decorate her bedroom! Being that her favorite thing in the world is being outside, I am thinking about a nature theme-- birds, trees, flowers, bees! Up there is the bedding we have for her crib. The crib is brown, not white as shown in the photo.
Do you have any great ideas? I'd love to hear 'em!
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