Thursday, November 8, 2012

Our School Room


Well, despite the extremely saddening election results, the show must go on.  Someone has to teach the future of our country things like fiscal responsibility and how to stand on their own two feet and not rely on the government, and I guess it will be me.  :)  Wow, did I just actually voice a political opinion out loud???  It's true, I have opinions, and I'm sad and concerned for the future of our country.   So I guess it's good I have something else to focus my attention on. Anyway, here is our school room!  I found a before picture of the playroom...

And some afters...
Same view, new room!  I wanted to brighten up the space, which doesn't get a lot of natural light since it's in the basement.  So I went with a pale yellow and Ryan added lots of extra lighting as well.  The last thing I want is to spend all my time in a cave!

The stage now doubles as a chalk board area.
The girls' desks.  Thank you craigslist!


The toys are all now in Lincoln's room and put up into those cabinets from Ikea.


A view of the custom bookshelves Ryan built us!


I bought these adorable vintage prints at a craft fair a few months ago, but never knew where to put them.  They are now right above one of our little reading nooks.  Perfect!


I love the way it all turned out.  I still have a few more things I want to add, but for now I'm pleased.  And I don't want to spend any more money, ever.  This process has been exciting...and expensive.  And, ahem, overspending isn't cool.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

It looks like a completely different space!

First of all: completely envious of your awesome vintage desks! LOVE.

Second: I had forgotten that you bought those cute letter prints but they are just perfect there! You have just illustrated my #1 thrifting philosophy, which is Buy it now, Figure out where to put it later. Or you will be sorry.

Third: awesome bookshelves! Yay Ryan.

Lucky Mommy said...

Who wouldn't be excited to learn in such a cute room? That seriously looks so fun. Our charter school is based on the Thomas Jefferson Education book and "The Well Trained Mind" is the one I read last spring when I thought I was gearing up to homeschool. I think you are going to love it. I'm sure it will have its bad days, everything does, and mommy and teacher can be hard, but you'll get it figured out. In the meantime, ready to spend a fun winter in that darling room, and wherever else you want to go as the world is now your classroom. So fun. I can't wait to hear reports of the adventures ahead. Go supermom!