Remember when we went on our Anniversary trip?? I told you then that we found this great color for the boys' room.
Here is the "after".....Come to find out....I have no "before" pictures of the room. All I have to say is this is so much better! We, uh.....ur.... I mean D re-painted the bunk beds back in November from white to black. He had made them 5 years ago and the white was nicked and dull & in need of an overhaul. I also like how black makes the furniture look more grown up.
This was Donovan's childhood desk that used to be in our office.....and it had an overhaul a couple of years ago with fresh paint and a glass top with pictures underneath. I decided the boys would benefit from this way more than the use it was getting in the office. So I put it in here. Only in needed a little help. I didn't like the stuff that sat all over the top making it hard to have a work space for homework or Lego building.
So another inspiration from Ikea in the above picture. Loved those shelves. But...they were kind of expensive. So I took this picture and Donovan worked on a copy cat version.
Before
After.
Cleaned up the underneath of that glass, and stuck with just pictures of the boys. I also moved all the Lego creations on the shelves.
One of my favorite things to do as a stay at home mom, is to re-purpose. I love seeing things that were in one room, moved to another and used in a better way.
I thought that these shelves should hold some books. But how??? We had no bookends. So I found the missionary bank from years ago and filled it with coins to make it heavy enough to support the books.
On the other end I used marbles that were in a tin storage container and put them in a glass canning jar. Re-purposed and FrEE!
What have you re-purposed lately?
Quote of the day:
Suzy: "It's not easy having brothers. Because they fight and say {in-a-puppy-it things}." (inappropriate)
