Weekend before last, Brian and I finally got around to tackling the 2 un-used rooms upstairs. “Aiden’s old room,” which shares a jack & jill bathroom with the boys’ current room, had a full bed and a crib in it from when Auntie Denna visited with Nate. Brady’s old room had a dresser and a recliner/rocking chair in it because we disassembled his old crib and took it out. Our plan was to make Brady’s old room the official guest room since it’s got a private bathroom and Aiden’s old room into a craft space for me (yeah!) So we moved everything into Bray’s room – got that squared away with the very same decorations that we used for our bedroom in the downtown condo as a newly married couple, and then went to analyze the situation.

We were standing in the “craft room” talking about what kind of desk/table/storage I would need…and maybe a computer/printer etc. It just started seeming too big and too far away from the action so I suggested moving the toys from our “actual” office (which was packed to the brim with the boy’s stuff plus a big desk/computer/giant printer) and making the room upstairs the new playroom. We debated the distance of a 2nd floor playroom, the inability to watch the boys as closely (which both happen with basement playrooms), the cons of having toys constantly moving from the top to main floors, the pros of having an adult office/craft area just for us etc etc. Finally ,we just threw caution to the wind figuring it’s only an afternoon’s work to undo it. So far so good and I have to say that I LOVE the change. We moved the desk in the office to a main wall, actually purchased one we’ve had our eyes on for quite some time, and the playroom seems to be working out really well. It renewed an interest in old toys and it’s now another “station” of activity during the day. I do have to shoo them up there a bit…and Brady is fond of playing in the bathroom sinks between the rooms (puts toys in…not himself!), but it’s been amazing to reclaim the first floor as pure adult territory! I even took the nice-looking wicker toy box from the living room up to the new playroom and made it the dress up box. Then…I moved my craft stuff from the front closet to the office and all the rockband stuff from the corner behind the couch into the front closet. I’m telling you people…we’re all grown up over here…not a toy in sight at ground zero (don’t look at the mess upstairs though! ha)

pics!!!

Here is the office with most of the toys removed. Daddy and Brady were taking a puzzle building break.

Slowing moving stuff into Aiden’s old room…the boys set up a trick track which they haven’t done in ages!

I think we need more shelving, but we’ll deal with that in a few weeks!

Logan strips down and makes for the costume bin!

Wow – I can breath! This is the desk moved to the center wall. The new desk will be here in a month or so.

These shelves needs some major organization. I see a visit to Ikea in our immediate future!

Finished product: