Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Home Tour: Day 3

Matthew's room, the spare room and the main bathroom



Before the move, all three boys shared one room. The new house has a total of 6 bedrooms, three up and three in the basement. It is so nice for each of them to have their own room!



Of all the rooms, Matthew's is the smallest, but it is also in a strategic area (more on that later). We bought him a "big boy" bed for his new room. A great craigslist find. I follow a blog of a little girl that has special needs and her mom bought her this exact bed from IKEA, because it had three solid sides, and her little girl then could not roll out of bed with the side rail attached. I had put the idea in the back of my head for when he outgrew his crib. But when I saw it on Craigslist 1 week later with a matching dressor for only $100, I couldn't pass it up! Even though we could've gotten more time out of his crib, we decided to move him up now. The drawers underneith are great for storage, and it also pulls out to make a trundle bed. I think this will be nice for when Matthew may not be feeling well, and I want to be close, but not actually in bed with him.
The built in storage to the right is great for his books, and I have all of his medical supplies stored below in the cabinet. It's so nice to hide it, and make his room look like a typical boys room and not a sterile medical room.


A view from the other end of the room. We are planning on painting his room (tonight in fact!) a real pretty green and then hanging some vinyl wall decals I found on etsy.com of monkeys in a tree. I've found some other really cute monkey themed things for his room, so he will have a cute monkey room. I will post after pictures, hopefully next week. We also plan on hanging brown tab curtains, to match his soft brown comforter.

Oh and on the the strategic placement of the room. If that bookcase were taken out of the room, you could walk right in the master bathroom. We plan on (down the road) expanding our master bathroom a bit and making our shower a roll in shower for Matthew. We will most likely at that point take out the bookcase and make this a door in which to easily get Matthew into the shower. This is in our 5-10 year plan. We don't need this now, but as Matthew gets bigger, we do foresee needing something like this.

This is the spare bedroom. There is not much in here right now. I am planning on this being my sewing room and also a guest bedroom. I will put in a desk and a nice bed for so we can have a nice place for company.
Also the carpet will be replaced. It is a pretty peach color. (Yick) I believe it's original to the home (circa 1980)
Sandwiched between the two bedrooms is the hall bathroom.
Ah, the hall bathroom. What can I say. Who puts carpet in the bathroom???? That carpet's days are numbered. It's heading out soon along with the spare bedroom carpet. Steve will probably lay a nice linoleum in here that looks like tile. We put it in our old home, and really liked it. We will also replace the green toilet, the green sink, the countertop and the funky light fixture (that you can't see. It's pretty interesting. It starts in the wall, has two chains that come out of it, are hooked in the ceiling and then hang down to the mirror. I'm guessing another 1980's dream). We are leaving the green (sage colored) tub for now. I found a shower curtain to complement it, and this room will also get a fresh coat of paint. I'll change the drawer pulls and the towel racks. The kids shower in here, so I'll probably just put in hooks. That works well for the kids towels, they haven't mastered folding them back up anyway :)

Up Tomorrow:

The Master bedroom, the Master bathroom, and the laundry room

6 comments:

Diane said...

Man this house does have a lot of 80's characteristics, especially the green toilet and bathtub. My mom and dad had a green toilet for the longest time. But I'm loving the layout and all the space just blows my mind.

I also like how you are thinking about the future for Matthew and expanding the master bath. We have started to look at houses lately (our rent contract is up in September), but we are not finding the layout we want. So we have finally decided to buy land and build. This way we can make it our own and adaptable for Tyler.

Diane, Tyler's mom

Lisa Christine said...

Matthews bed is fabulous. And $100??? What a bargain!

That is a brilliant idea to connect Matthews bedroom to the master bath. That will be so convenient!

I love your house!

K said...

So glad that Matthew's room is in a good location. I can't wait to see it finished with all the cute monkey things.

Chrissy Scheer, PT said...

Matthew...I absolutely love your big boy bed!...congrats on moving out of the "baby stage"...you are getting so grown up!

Kristen said...

I love your house and the tour you are giving us!

Matthew's bed has me wondering if something like that would work for Cayman. Mike and I were just talking last night that we can't see her ready for a big girl bed by the time we have this baby. Maybe, but not likely. But something like Matthew's bed might work. Plus it would be easier for me to lift Cayman in and out of it than it will be for me pregnant in her crib. Then this baby could use her crib. Hmmm... I'm off to go search. :) Thanks for the idea!

Michelle said...

Your house is just wonderful! I love the connection to Matthew's room. Our house has the kids' rooms upstairs and our room is downstairs. We have to have video monitors upstiars to keep track of the kiddos at night. I spend a lot of nights on the futon in Owen's room!

I'm so happy that you have found a place to spread out in. And it doesn't matter how it looks now, half the fun is getting to redecorate and make it your own!