Big Kid Room

When we built our house we started out wanting four bedrooms upstairs, but our contractor talked to us about how much better three bedrooms would look.  We have three very spacious bedrooms and two large bathrooms upstairs and if we had put in four bedrooms they would have been much smaller and broken up the flow.  At the time of design I was pregnant with Charlotte and we thought we might have more children so our contractor made the kids' bedrooms easy for kids to share with large closets and plenty of space for multiple beds.

We spent 4 days last week priming, taping, and painting the "big kids" room.  And by we I mean mostly Jay.  I helped out by keeping the kids occupied downstairs so he could work.  We had a few hangups with the wrong shade of yellow at first, Jay getting sick from one type of primer, and the hour and a half round trip drides to Lowes to get more paint.  However, we got their room set up and ready during winter break, which was our main goal.

During the painting time all of Charlotte's furniture was moved to the hallway or Trey's room and they had sleepovers in Trey's room every night.  They did such a good job sleeping in the same room and not disturbing each other that it confirmed our decision to move them in together.

We decided on painting the room yellow because it was a gender neutral color and not a "favorite" of one persons (trying to be fair).  Then each kid picked a color for a stripe on the wall.  Charlotte chose purple and Trey chose orange.  I wasn't sure how it was going to look all together, except for very colorful, but we all love how it turned out.

Helping Daddy with taping

Trey was in charge of handing Daddy his tools to tape.

The was the yellow we rejected after it was up on the walls, but they liked getting a chance to paint.

Did I mention we also started potty training Charlotte during this week? Probably not the best time, but since I was off work I decided to go for it.  

The first things we moved into the finished room was their beds.  They are on opposite sides of the room. 

Charlotte was so excited to move from a bed on the floor (we always start with that when they move out of the crib) to a real "big girl" bed. 

This is the wall that adjoins the new nursery.  We plan to put up a pinterest inspired display of books on the empty section above their seats to create a reading area. 

The walk in closet.  Charlotte's clothes are on the right and Trey's are on the left.  Charlotte doesn't really have that many more clothes than Trey, his are just all in his dresser except for sweaters and button down shirts.  I want to get a basket to put on the floor for their dress up clothes so they are all in one place. 

Nana made the kids quilts out of Dr. Suess fabric.  They turned out really cute and look great in the room. 

We plan to put some oversized art work (TBD) over their dressers. 

I like the idea of living in a space for a while to make sure the furniture is in a functional layout before putting anything on the wall.  We have ideas for art work that will probably come to fruition over spring break or summer break.  When we moved in just the beds Trey said, "We have room in here for our new baby's bed when he turns 2 or 3 like Charlotte!"