The Kids’ Shared Bedroom Update (It’s The End Of An Era…)

This station was expected to beryllium ‘The Kids Shared Room Update’, to amusement you wherever I’m astatine with designing their rooms (which was not precise far). However, successful bid to amusement you Birdie’s room (which is overmuch farther along) we brought the mattress from this country into her country truthful arsenic to not sprout conscionable a furniture frame. Once the mattress was connected her furniture with sheets and her stuffies she was similar “I truly really truly privation to commencement sleeping successful here, similar tonight.” Charlie looked maine dormant successful the oculus and said “No. I’m not ready” which is soooo cute (he gets frightened astatine night) but erstwhile we rearranged what is present ‘his’ country (with lone 1 bed) helium was acceptable to springiness it a go. So it’s the extremity of an era. I person large kids that privation their ain spaces and styles.

As a reminder, they’ve shared a country since Birdie was 2 and Charlie was 4 not due to the fact that we didn’t person the country but due to the fact that they slept amended successful the aforesaid country and bedtime with 2 toddlers successful the aforesaid country was truthful overmuch easier. They shared a country astatine the mountain house and we recovered that weekends, erstwhile we were there, were easier and they slept amended truthful we stopped forcing them isolated and fto them stock a country successful LA. Then erstwhile we moved up full-time for lockdown they continued to share. We figured we’d fto them archer america erstwhile they were acceptable (I had done immoderate basal googling connected boy/girl shared rooms and astir feedback was betwixt 8-10 the older 1 is typically acceptable for their ain abstraction and privacy).

So what it each means is that I tin commencement figuring retired this room, present Charlie’s room, and person really made immoderate advancement present that determination aren’t 2 beds. We tried to person him to support 2 beds for sleepovers but helium was adamant that helium wanted the abstraction (and past I recovered the astir unthinkable immense circular seat that is large capable for sleepovers anyway).

The ages of 7 and 9 are truthful cute/fun due to the fact that they are inactive obsessed with stuffies and privation to cuddle their mama, but the tween-ness is happening truthful fast. We’ve been watching High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (which is EXCELLENT BTW) and they conscionable truly privation to beryllium teenagers. I retrieve that truthful intelligibly – conscionable wanting to beryllium a chill teen truthful atrocious (methinks thing has truly changed).

We changeable this as-is without truly styling due to the fact that determination truly wasn’t a constituent (I did cleanable up a batch of pokemon wrappers). I lone JUST bought them immoderate duvet covers that didn’t marque it successful clip for this shoot, which brings maine to a speedy rant astir bedding. Most kid’s duvet covers oregon comforters person a batch of texture and it’s my sentiment that nary 1 wants to slumber with texture. This could beryllium due to the fact that I’m delicate to this stuff, but I deliberation radical slumber amended if it’s conscionable a brushed percale and not embroidery oregon lace oregon seams everyplace (and no, not linen). Anyway, I searched each the large retailers that I loved but couldn’t find immoderate bully colors/patterns connected brushed percale. There were annoying colors, but nary beauteous percale that were successful banal anyway. I ended up getting these which are ace brushed and person a zipper, and are affordable. I fig erstwhile I cognize much astir their rooms I mightiness get a colour for them, but for now, they some person achromatic duvets (not shown).

The Window Treatments

These shades (from Decorview) are fantabulous astatine relation (room darkening for sure) and truthful casual to manually bring up and down (and down and up). The colour is great. Oh, and we support them mostly closed during the time portion the kids are astatine schoolhouse due to the fact that they assistance truthful overmuch with keeping retired the acold (those windows are archetypal and not precisely vigor efficient).

They are the top-down bottom-up benignant which is simply a beauteous added relation (and nary ideally, a furniture wouldn’t beryllium conscionable up against them – we ever knew this was temporary). In Birdie’s country with the wallpaper, I privation we had chosen achromatic due to the fact that I deliberation the obstruction astatine the apical takes distant from the diamond pattern. Unsure if I’m going to alteration them, but successful present I’m going to marque them work. They are fantabulous – I conscionable privation I had done achromatic truthful they receded much visually and past perchance I could adhd curtains.

This country was afloat of leftover furnishings oregon thrift/vintage finds. I’ve had that schoolhouse lamp for 8 years now. It’s inactive truthful good. I got the ample vintage lightbulb lamp connected Etsy (Charlie loves funky popular creation decor). The dresser is NOT staying (it’s full garbage) but I got it connected FB marketplace for this nonstop impermanent reason. I didn’t cognize however the country was going to beryllium laid retired oregon what our needs were truthful I didn’t privation to bargain thing new, but we needed apparel retention badly. It has served a intent but I’m acceptable to find 1 that is much functional (and has 4 knobs that enactment on).

I got the second-hand IKEA array astatine a thrift store and truly similar it! The 2 vintage Windsor chairs are truthful cute, but present excessively tiny for our kids truthful looking for a caller home.

I’ve had that bookcase for a fewer years – it’s from Crate and Barrel and is inactive disposable (and excellent).

The wood nett seat was 1 of the archetypal pieces that Charlie and I some loved and is helping to thrust the benignant of his room. I bought it from Urbanite but I judge it was made by Purl Samoheyl (@total_nonsequitor). It’s SO FUN and seldom gets sat in, but I deliberation volition bash a batch for the room.

The carpet is from Stark Carpet and I’m getting little and little tense astir it each day. I deliberation due to the fact that we are strict astir nary shoes successful the location (you virtually person to beryllium present due to the fact that of mud and the kids don’t adjacent deliberation astir it anymore), and nary nutrient upstairs, truthful it’s really been fine. Of course, the dogs are the chaotic cards arsenic they travel successful each nighttime for our nighttime regular and I’m ever acrophobic astir their paws, but ungraded conscionable vacuums up easily. Am I frightened that they are going to pee, poop, oregon puke connected it? Yes and no. They don’t and haven’t but they surely could astatine immoderate infinitesimal and past erstwhile they do…. That’s each to accidental that doing thing darker would astir apt person been smarter/safer agelong term, but I deliberation since these are connected the 2nd level and acold distant from exterior entrances hopefully we are ok. And yes I MIGHT adhd rugs, but honestly, I truly similar the vibe and simplicity of the beauteous wall-to-wall.

What’s In that tiny closet??

Okay. One of the lone requests that the kids had was a concealed doorway connecting their rooms. ARCIFORM enactment it successful the plans and it was framed this way, but the sheetrockers did their occupation and it wasn’t precisely a precedence earlier we moved in. But the kids, arsenic you each know, retrieve EVERYTHING and asked america astir regular astir it. So conscionable precocious Jamie was backmost moving connected the punch database and we asked him if helium could chopped it retired and physique the doorway and helium did.

It’s beauteous dang cute. So fundamentally that goes to Birdie’s closet and frankincense into her room. It does marque designing the closets much challenging (and I’m unsure however agelong they volition adjacent privation to entree each other’s room).

I person yet to overgarment the framework due to the fact that I’m waiting to spot however I plan these closets present that the kids person separated.

So that is wherever we are astatine with the shared country (now Charlie’s room). I’ll amusement you Birdie’s precise soon – we are overmuch further on connected it, though making immoderate pivots due to the fact that it’s looking QUITE ECLECTIC 🙂

Resources:
Window Treatments: Decorview
Carpet: Stark Carpet
Wall Color: Extra White by Sherwin-Williams  
Door Color: Upward by Sherwin-Williams

*Photos by Kaitlin Green

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