I wanted to get on here and chat about our play room. It used to be my least favorite room in the house. There were so many toys everywhere and our old nasty couch was the first thing you would see when you walked through the front door. It was awful! After our little remodel it has become my absolute favorite room in the house!
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| y'all it was so awful!!!!! |
Everyone who knows me knows how much I dislike toys. Especially toys that take over the room. The first thing we did was go through every single one of them and get rid of everything they didn't play with or that was broken. We had so many little McDonalds toys and random puzzle pieces everywhere. I went straight to target and bought a shelf,ten bins and little containers that would house all their crayons and all the video game controllers and remotes. I had it set in my head that if it didn't fit in the bins that it would have to go. My girls really aren't ones to sit and play with toys, so this really wasn't an issue.The one big toy that they had (their fisher price doll house) ended up in their room so it wasn't taking up any unnecessary room.
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Every single toy or play item they have is in these ten bins.
Top Bins
Bin 1: All of their Doctor and Vet toys
Bin 2: Their magnet toys and robots
Bin 3: Coloring stuff
Bin 4: Cars,balls, and helicopters
Bottom Bins
Bin 1: Costumes
Bin 2: Dress up stuff
Bin 3: Little random toys that don't have a category
Bin 4: Barbies
Bin 5: legos
Bin 6: Dolls and Doll stuff
When I pictured a play room I wanted a space that the kids could go and have their own place to play or watch their own shows, because lets be real I hate watching cartoons. We also have all the video games in the play room so the living room tv can be used to actually watch tv. The girls also have their little table where they can color and do whatever it is that they want to do with it. Its a complete mess and stained with marker. One day I will tackle that project. I was also looking for an idea as to how to display their artwork and trusty pinterest had just the thing. I took some string and some cute little clothes pins I found in the target dollar section and made a cute little line to hang their stuff up.
The last two projects that we did in this room to really top it off were the coffee table and knocking out that nasty 1980s railing between the front room and the dining room. Some of our really good friends gave us their old coffee table to redo. The finished product is most definitely my favorite project we've ever done and it really made all the difference in the room.
We used the rustoleum cabinet kit to paint the bottom because it would've been to much of a pain to sand it. The top of the table was sanded so it could be stained and the girls picked out new knobs at hobby lobby to finish it off.
Remember that railing I was talking about. (You can see it in picture one) Yup it's long gone and it looks SO much better!!! The girls really love that they can run right through there. As you can see our room really went through an awesome transformation and I love just sitting in there with the girls. I love that they have a room that they can call their own and that it is easy to keep organized!
Thanks for stopping by!
Michelle Luna.