Well...I have been thinking about cleaning the girls room and making a few changes for months now. Every time I look on Pinterest I see SOMETHING I like. We had a piece of furniture in their room (a chifferobe) that we had purchased at K-Mart when Madeline was a baby. It was not functional. It took up a TON of space and it served little purpose. I wanted it out. But...we do not have the money to invest in new furniture right now (a dresser) so My Sweet and I went shopping and decided on a shelf with fabric bins. It was inexpensive and it would serve its purpose for now. And take up WAY less space.
We had a little window of time this weekend to work on their room while the kiddos were at Grandma's so we got to work!! The girls LOVED the changes we made and I'm pretty happy with them too - especially considering I just used what we had on hand (except for the cabinet and fabric boxes) and made it work. Oh...and I pretty much found all of these ideas on Pinterest! :)
I found this description of a "tidy room" and printed it and framed it for them to have a visual. Lets hope it works! :)
This is the corner where the chifferobe was. I wish I had taken a picture of it before, but I didn't. It pretty much took up that whole wall adjacent to the house decal.
Here is a view of the side of the room where I did the most work. Those AG dolls had pretty much been sitting out in the middle of their room...damage has been done to the green bed b/c it has been stepped on. Twice.
Used this bucket to keep Susanna's books. Madeline's chapter books are in the closet now.
This is one of two shelves I re-purposed to hang in their room. They came from the changing table that was in Phil and Vi's room. The wood was solid (not cheap particle board) and I just couldn't bring myself to throw it out (The changing table was not so functional anymore...the kids had stood on it and broke one of the drawers). Anyway...I painted them and tried to stain them a little. It works for me. I'm not a professional :)
Here is the larger shelf/drawer that we hung on the wall. My Sweet took care of getting these hung up properly (I would have made a MESS of the wall had I done it myself....so thankful he was so willing to help!)
This is the wall on the other side of the room. My girls are in a big Barbie phase right now. Well...one of them likes Barbie more than the other. I had to leave them out because they get played with everyday.
This is one of my favorite additions to the room. I purchased this from Ikea before Christmas and was going to use it to put their flip flops in. Well...after I removed the chifferobe (where they put ALL of their random small gadgets/trinkets and doo-dads I needed a place for them to store that stuff. Preferably, out of sight! So...this is perfect! It hangs on the inside of the closet door. They each get two rows of storage - lip gloss, dolls, DS Games, cards, etc...perfect storage place.
Lets just hope they can keep it this clean. For a few days at least :)
