The Boys' Big Move

We mentioned bunk beds to G about a year ago and he's been excited about it ever since.  G and D have shared a room for about a month now and for the past couple weeks Paul and I have enjoyed the silence that SHOULD happen at bedtime.  It was an adjustment for the first couple weeks as they were both so excited about the bunk beds that it took HOURS for them to give it up at night and stop the silliness, laughter and general spazzing that ensued nightly.  The nursery is now my office again and I am thrilled to be done with setting up my laptop and work documents at the dining room table!

The boys each had a theme during their time in the nursery.  Gabriel's was antique transportation and David's was cowboy.  Both themes had similar rustic primary colors so I took a chance and mixed the two in their new room.  This is the result:

 Here's the picture above David's bed since it's partially hidden in the previous photo.  I modge podged a poster (ebay!) to mdf that Paul cut and painted black.

 I found this sign at Canton last year!

David's personal items are on the nightstand and little shelf.  I plan to hang a cluster of 3 frames between the two.

Their names took turns hanging above the crib over the past 5 years and are now on either side of their shared closet.

 Gabriel's personal items are on top of the dresser.....out of David's reach.  :)

The print in this photo was also a poster that I modge podged to some mdf that we painted black.  Much cheaper than buying something, even at my much loved Hobby Lobby!

 And the closet.  Nothing extraordinary or straight from the Container Store magazine, but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see this and know that their individual closets were full!  With a little help from Pinterest, The Container Store and Target I got some affordable ideas to use the closet space more efficiently to fit BOTH of them.   Very few toys or books are in their room although the train table is quite large!  Our goal was to keep the toys in the play area so we did some "purging" and donated quite a few items they hadn't played with in awhile. 

• The white bags hanging on each side are for their dirty white socks.  No more figuring out which sock belongs to which boy!
• The LEGO binder replaced a tupperware box as storage for instruction manuals.  It is full of clear pages to hold the manuals so he can easily see what he has.

We have seen our boys play together better and share more than they did just a month ago.  Hallelujah!  <this is me bustin' a move>