Transforming the house

Today was the second weekend of making changes to the house.  I think what spurred the changes was the thought that I would have to tolerate being in my house for extended periods of time when I am home.  So, this lead me to some reorganization.  The problem was that it seemed like every room was run over with kids stuff.  I wanted to make the rooms back into rooms with individual functions again.  For example, the loft upstairs was an office slash playroom.  It was divided in half by a 10-12 ft gate.  It was very distracting to work in the office with all the clutter about.  Then, I was thinking the one room we don't use much is the guest room, but I can't exactly get rid of that.  So, what I finally decided was that I would slide the bed into the sliding closet, and then it will be a playroom unless we have guest.  Then, I had to paint the guest room because it was all red and that was just too much energy.  So, I painted it the same color as the rest of the house. 

 In the above pic, I used decals that I bought off of Amazon.  Also, I decided that the kids need their own work space.  Sometimes it is nice to have them separated when they are working.  There is less competition and less hoarding of crayons and stickers and things like that.  I took advantage of their size and got too $10 side tables from Ikea to use as desks.

 This corner is dedicated to pretend kitchen play.

 I also picked up these mirror tiles at Ikea.  


I am pretty happy with the new feel to my home.  I have an organized place for the twins to play.  (Let' s see how long it stays that way.)  And, I feel much better in my own office.    I did some minor tweaking of the arrangement of the furniture in the downstairs living room also, and I feel much more comfortable in my own home....less of that I need to get out of here for a while feeling.