Play Room: Take 1

In August I got tired of having toys in the kids rooms and in the living room.  They would go back and forth with the toys all day.

I decided we need ONE room to contain them.  We have friends that, when their kids were little, and they had a three bedroom house they moved all 3 kids into one room and the other room was the play room.  So.....I decided to try it!

We moved Liberty's crib into the boys room.  Since the boys have bunk beds, and our house was built in the 80's, her bed fit great because the rooms are huge.

We rearranged a few different ways and set up different "stations" in the play room.  Of course Preston mainly gravitates around the train table.  Liberty likes to play farm and "cook".  Hallister might play with the cars, but also with the "real" lego's in his room so Liberty wouldn't put them in her mouth.

It has worked nicely, but with me working 10 hours a week from home and consistently getting more work on top of that we knew I needed an office. Having to work on the computer in the living room was difficult, so we started to look at 4 bedroom houses.  We found some out in the country like we wanted but not in our price range.

We talked to our financial advisers and they said that in this economy it would be more wise to add on than to get a new house and increase our mortgage.  So.....we decided to enclose half the garage to create a play room, with the door to it coming from the living room.  That way Jonathan would still have half the garage for his tools that he uses to work on the cars.

We have started on the new play room and it is almost complete!  Jonathan has worked really hard on it for over three months.  We have bought supplies after each pay check and it will be ready just in time for us to host our first Thanksgiving.  Stay tuned for pictures of the Play Room: Take 2.