This used to be our playroom. We called it the explore room. It had a reading nook, bins for toys and an art cabinet. The toys were upstairs and out of the way. It could get messy and it didn't bother me. We added two rebuilt desktop computers for the boys to play their jump start games and do their all important lego research. It worked perfectly for us.
For a while.
But sometime around the end of the school year last year, it became clear that our use of the room was changing. That our needs had shifted and a change was in order.
(Hmmm...maybe it was the boys search for star wars lego videos on Youtube that took them to a...ahem...less than desireable video that did it.)
One of the things I love most about out house is how versatile it is. Bedrooms can become playrooms. Guest rooms can become sewing rooms.
So one of the many summer projects while S has been away has been to swap my downstairs craft room with the upstairs playroom.
Part of me could not believe I was bringing the playroom back downstairs after I had just trained the boys to keep the toys upstairs.
But things are different now.
They only play with a few things...legos, action figures, animals, art supplies, puzzles and games for the most part.
Gone are the baskets of toys along the wall. No more dress up corner (which makes me a bit sad). They spend more time in their rooms when they need a quiet minute or two to play with a few select toys they keep there.
And homework is becoming a much bigger deal...do you know how big a 2 inch Social Studies binders is???
All of this to say...change was necessary.
In true Eren fashion, I began doing research.
I looked through books, magazines. I put together a pin board at pinterest.
And have been eating away at the HUGE task of moving all of that fabric up, all of the legos and books down.
But it is almost finally finished! I have to spray paint a few chairs today and fin three baskets for a shelf.
Can't wait to show you the full reveal tomorrow!