In Progress

The room remodel is underway!

A roll-top desk is going to be moved into the room, in front of the chair, along the wall. There's another cabinet like the small one on the floor by the chair; they'll go above the desk as a place for books that are being moved from the office room to this bedroom. The taller cabinet is for Miss M's clothes.


This is the Wall of Cabinets. It goes all the way to the ceiling.


The cabinet has shelves, not drawers. They're replacing what was in two large chest of drawers and a tall loungerie chest, plus they have additional space for sheets and blankets.


There's going to be a shelf for books running along two walls up high near the ceiling - about fifteen feet of shelf (we have lots of books being moved into the room!)

A Clearplay DVD player and TV are going to be in this room, too - no idea where to put those. Possibly above Miss M's cabinet? Tim and J sometimes watch movies that L and Miss M are too young for, and it's going to be better to have them locked in the room watching their movies than to try to lock the little kids in this room watching a kids movie because the unsuitable movie is being viewed in the family room (that's how we'd been doing it up til now). A little bookshelf will be going in beside the desk, just under the window. The bed was moved to the other window, and a wide headboard will be built to fit a file cabinet near the roll-top desk. That window by the bed is a second-story window, so we installed a window guard to keep Miss M from climbing the headboard and going out the window.

We've already encountered a problem - Miss M can't resist opening the new cabinet doors and banging them shut. We considered putting child-proof locks on them to keep her from doing that, but we decided it would be easier to put a child-proof gate up to keep her out of the room altogether. Since there will also be a desk in there, she really doesn't need to be using it as a play-room. It will just be a place for her to sleep and store her clothes. Most days, Mr. B will either be sleeping in there or working at the desk, so she won't be able to play in there most times, anyway.

The room has a lot more storage, yet doesn't feel any smaller since we moved up toards the ceiling instead of added more furniture. It's also bright and looks very simple and neat rather than cluttered - that's important when you're fitting two rooms of stuff into one room.