Playroom

Ta da! After forgetting for months I finally snapped a few pictures of the playroom while it was fairly clean. During the hours the girls are awake the floor sometimes disappears! This was Jared's office and it is the first room you see when you walk into the house. Jared's office moved upstairs to the sitting room in our bedroom and we went to IKEA to get the couch and TV unit for this room. We also added french doors so that we could lock the girls in keep all the toys behind closed doors.

Originally I planned to keep it gender neutral but I really didn't like red/blue/yellow and the pink/blue/green is so cute. When if we have another child and it is a boy then I'll eventually have to redo the pink!

 View from the front door. We did most of this in September and found great deals because the back to school dorm stuff was all on sale. I got the rug at Target and then found material to match at Fabrics and Fringehttp://fabricsandfringe.com/. I love that place! I made the pillows and lampshade to match the window treatments.

I made magnetic boards for behind one door. I wanted to use the wall space but we couldn't do much of anything because the door opens against that wall. The theme for the room was "make it without costing a fortune". For these I got sheet metal at Lowe's ($10 each) and covered them in fabric ($3 each). Then Jared hung them on the wall. I made magnets with flat marbles and glued scrapbook paper on the back. The same paper is on the wall and on the boxes on the shelves so it all coordinates! Each girl has a board with her initial (Hobby Lobby letters covered with scrapbook paper and magnets hot glued to the back). They were about $17 each.

 Above the couch I did the usual scrapbook paper squares. This time I didn't just use paper, I made each square into scrapbook page. The girls LOVE to see pictures of themselves and you can often catch them pointing at their picture just like HK above. The boards were 12x12 cut down from a large sheet of wood. I made the scrapbook page then glued it to the board and hung picture hangers on the back. I already had the wood left from other projects so the only thing we paid for was the scrapbook paper and stickers. Here are some of them close up.

 One side of the room - their doll house, table and the bug bean bags (holding the door open so that the girls don't try to slam it and pinch fingers).

 Behind the other door. I put up hooks and a mirror at their height. The hooks hold lots of their dress up clothes and, of course, HK's wings.

 I made this canvas and hung it above the mirror. I just painted the canvas and cut the letters out on my Cricut. The castle/carraige were scrapbook chipboard that I hot glued on. This is one of my favorite parts of the room. Have I ever mentioned how much I love having girls?!?!?

This is the TV unit we got at IKEA. We're watching the TV deals since Black Friday is coming up so eventually we'll get that added. The boxes were from Target and I made tags (out of the same scrapbook paper) and then took them to an office supply place to be laminated. This way the boxes are labeled and I can change it when the contents change. Easy and cheap!

So, there it is! The girls LOVE playing in there and I love having a clean living room for the first time in 2.5 years. As they get older and can really be trusted in the room alone (right now not jumping on the couch is too much temptation!) then I know we'll use it more and more. I'd been very hesitant to have this as the first thing you see when coming in the front door but I really like it now that it is finished. We spend more time in here during the day than anywhere else.