Saturday we started the long process of moving rooms. We need to make a fourth bedroom in our home so that when Naya arrives we have room for her. We started by moving the boys to what used to be the playroom, just off the living room. It seems like it was time to purge their room anyway so we got rid of a lot of junk as we went. Their room was really a mess under the clean appearance.
We spent much of the day just moving their stuff out to the new room and putting the toys in the living room. Believe me, by about half way though the day it only looked like a bomb exploded in my house. We took their bed apart simply to get it out the door and then reassembled it, after cleaning it, in their new room. It looked much better when we got the bed in place.
But then my husband came in and suggested he didn’t like the bed there and thought it should go against the far window. I was so glad we didn’t have to take the bed apart again. We just flipped it around and it fit right into the spot he had picked out. The boys were so excited to spend the night in their new room!
They still have to put some of their things away but it’s coming along nicely. Mike is going to find out about getting some cubical panels that we can put just behind the couch (you can see the top of the couch in the picture) to give them a bit more privacy.
The boys old room is mostly cleared out now. It’s amazing how much bigger it looks without anything in it. Now we are starting to fill in the gaps of the ugly paneling with some putty. We will let it dry and then sand it smooth. After that is done we may have to repeat the job just to make sure there are no gaps left. Then comes the fun part, painting! The plan is to paint the walls and the ceiling white so no matter who uses the room it will work. I hope to get a new light fixture too just to spruce the room up a bit.
Stay tuned for the next part of our adventure!