During spring break my husband took the kids out of town and I stayed home!! It was a very relaxing 4 days! I did miss my kids and husband and was happy to see them when they got home. I was able to sleep in and do a little pampering but, I also kept myself busy with my spring cleaning. It was so much easier to do with no kids around.
Thank you daddy for giving momma a break!!
The first project I wanted to tackle was Mr. C's room. I've been wanting to change it up just a little. I like the colors and furniture in the room, but I needed to add something. The hubs said absolutely NO painting!! (I think he didn't want to get stuck finishing it.) So I didn't fight that battle and decided to get it organized and add a few finishing touches.
Here it is before:
An unorganized mess
The first thing I did was go through all of his toys and throw away broken ones. I decided to put some of the toys I hardly ever see him play with in his closet. I want to see if he realizes they are gone. If not, they will get sold or donated. So I organized the toys in into these bins, putting everything into categories. (We got these bins from pottery barn kids a few years ago, and I love them!)
Then I went through all the books getting rid of any torn up books they don't really read anymore. After all the digging out of the room, I ended up with a whole trash bag of stuff!
Isn't that horse so cute! That was my husbands when he was little.
Last year I got these pictures from A Vintage Poster. I love the colors, the animals and the designs. I've just never done anything with them until now.
I took down the single picture of the boy on the pedal tractor, used some old wrapping paper and made templates of the 4 posters I was going to use, bought frames from hobby lobby for $3 each, put command picture hanging strips on the back, and hung them above the bed. I think they look great above the bed, it's the first thing you see when you walk into his room, and when he got home, he LOVED it!
I bought some letters from Michaels, traced my letters onto the back of some scrapbook paper I already had, in the same color scheme of the new pictures, and mod podge the paper onto the letters.
I decided to hang them above these two vehicle pictures that were already in the room.
Even though I couldn't paint, I think all the color in the room makes it fun and playful. Everything has a place and is easily accessible for my little ones to get to and even to help clean up at the end of the day.
2 comments:
that is a very colorful and interesting boys room.. Thanks for linking up at friday fun party
There are so many fun details in this room! Thanks for sharing at oopsey daisy!
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