New Paint

I am the painter in the family. Josh does so many other things (and well) that it's nice to have my niche and I don't mind getting messy. When we moved into our house everything needed new paint - inside and out! I got to all of them except the playroom until now. The girls didn't mind the stars and splatter paint but this room needed a nice new coat of paint on the walls and the ceiling. Here is a before picture.

Here are the after pictures. In two and a half months Eric will be turning three so we were able to purge a lot of baby toys. The girls haven't wanted to get rid of any toys because, "they are all so special to us mommy!" But it needed to be done and here are the results.

As I was clearing things out to paint the children had a great time running around the empty room. I then asked if they would rather have all of the things back in there or more room and after much thought they wanted more room. Thank goodness!!! I made sure they weren't around when I purged the toys and they only miss them when we look at pictures of the old room.

I have some wall decorations that still need to be put up as well as a curtain for the window. I just love the tranquility the light green walls provide. And Eric now has his own corner with baskets of boy toys on the bookshelf and a table nearby to play on. He's been there most of the day already!

Yesterday I finished painting and last night I put the shelves back up and the floor back down. When I went upstairs for something, Eric grabbed my hand and said, "let's finish working downstairs mommy." He is his father's son....motivated!

I still have to put the dress up items back in the room but that's pretty much about it.

Less shelving, less baskets, less toys...more room