This one is
l o n g overdue.
We
finally painted the girls' room and bought them a
real bed.
This is a terrible representation (and admittance) of their room before, but it gives an idea of what they were sleeping on:
Hannah has slept on a crib mattress since she left the "crib" (I use " " because she never had a real crib. They are just too big for our space). The mat on the right was used to acclimate Jane to sleeping on a bed.
We were planning on getting a bed for the girls soon anyway, but then we found this behind their shelves:
≈Gasp!≈ Disgusting right? I swear we didn't know it was there. We needed to paint immediately. We thought we might as well throw in a bed while we were at it.
It was a lot of work. I bleached the mold, and Dan scraped and sanded the layers of paint the mold was eating through.
There were so many places to repair. I had no idea their room was in such shambles.
The rest of the house was in shambles while we worked.
The girls really enjoyed the obstacles. Hannah made a bridge of diapers. Is there a better way to spend the day?
Finally, by sundown, we had finished painting and trimming the baseboards.
(Proof that I actually worked)
Here's a look at the corner before and after:
And remember this?
Well, forget it.
Here's their room put back together with a REAL
bed, which the girls absolutely love. It's a sturdy, clever bed that adjusts to three different sizes. That and it's cute.
But the finishing touch, the pièce de résistance, the highlighting adornment (if you ask me) came just yesterday ~ my 16x20 photo of one of my roses.
I love how it looks in there. It's so big and bright~ just as I pictured it.
So now we have a girly room that the girls love and we can all be proud of. Hooray!
To see details (you know how I
love details), go
here.
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