Mr B has always planned to add on a new master bedroom over the garage with a walk-out patio by the time Tim was old enough to need his own space. Well, that time has come, but the finances aren't available to do a room addition.
So - Plan B.
Mr. B has been using our third bedroom as an office/daytime sleeping room (so we can still the master bedroom and bathroom when he's sleeping) and we use it when we have guests. The plan is to move his office into the master bedroom and let Tim move into that third bedroom.
The problem is storage - Miss M is in our room, so we have three of us in the room, plus all the bedding for the entire household, sewing, toy storage and other things that have nowhere else to go (we have no linen closet). The solution - remodel the room so we can fit all our stuff in there! I've always loved the challenge of trying to get as much storage into as small a space as possible while avoiding a crowded, cluttered look. It's not always successful or possible, but I like to try anyway.
Tim has been graphing out the proposed changes, and this is what we're looking at so far:
Low bed, but with room for storage bins underneath. Mr B will put a mattress on a cheap frame and build legs (he's done it before) and build a headboard far enough away from the wall to hide a file cabinet behind it for his desk stuff, leaving room for a very large cabinet for bedding behind half of the headboard.
A high shelf around two full walls so Mr. B can move his 19 feet of books into the room (and that still leaves shelf space for other needs).
A narrow cabinet that doesn't come out too far from the wall (because the bathroom door is right there, and the dresser we have there now is a bit of an obstruction).
Mr B's roll-top desk is being moved into the room, and a cabinet put above it to hide desk clutter.
One full wall of floor-to-ceiling cabinets, a clean, uncluttered, bright improvement over the piles of clutter atop two dressers we have now. It's inexpensive (comparitively speaking) melamine cabinetry, the kind you can pick up at Walmart or Home Depot, but it will suit our needs and I've always favored efficiency, light and lack of clutter over style.
The walls were painted light yellow (it's called "Lemon Ice") and the valances over the windows are white (the room gets the best light in the mornings, and those colors really accentuate that!) There's one big space of wall by the desk with room for a nice print - I'm thinking a beautiful Bouguereau poster.
You can see how it might look below (the thing coming down from the ceiling isn't an oven hood, it's a fan/lamp, but trying to create it in the graphics wasn't worth the time):
Tim is busy now plotting out how he might arrange his "new room." :)
And J has been hinting for weeks (not so subtly) that he has his own ideas about how he'll use all the space he and L will gain when Tim moves out of their room.
