Our Next Big Project

The next thing we're working on doing is setting up a new playroom for Trina.  Her current playroom is in the smallest of our 4 bedrooms upstairs.  We learned this summer that if you have more than two kids in that room it starts to get a little crowded.  Also, she's already starting to outgrow it...either that or she just has too much stuff :)

Regardless, I think I've convinced Ryan that we should have it pretty much done by the time Trina gets here for the summer.  Currently, our basement is already divided in half.  On one half is the furnace, laundry tub, cat litter boxes, and wall-to-wall shelving for storage.  This side we're going to leave the storage/mechanical side.  The other side is currently one big room, but we did create a walk in closet under the stairs on this side.  As it stands now, this half has our office, book shelves, and a bunch of crap.  I am totally embarrassed to post this picture on here, but, here's what it looks like:

I can't get the whole area into one shot, but you get the picture.  It's currently messy...a catch all area of things in our house that we haven't found a home for.  There is a full sized kitchen table to the right (not pictured) that we use for Trina to do all of her arts and crafts.  It's a lot easier to clean up spills on a concrete floor than wood floors!  Also, to the left of the desk is more floor space with book shelves as well as the walk in closet under the stairs. 

Our plan at this point is to frame out a wall with doorway where left had wall terminates at the stairs.  That is roughly 2/3 of the length of the room.  That will give us a walled off office portion with a locking door, and then a separate room that opens to the stairs where the playroom will be.  This room is nearly triple the size of the currently playroom and will offer space for more than 2 kids to hang out.

Oh!  And, here's the new organizer we picked up at Meijer for the new playroom: