The Great Room Swap

We have four bedrooms.  We currently have four children - four girls - and we are fixing to add a fifth child.  A boy.  Do the math and that means we've got some space issues.  Add in the fact that two of our children are only here part time and well...we've got some rearranging to do.

It started today.

It seems like we JUST redid everyone's rooms and here we are, at it again.  We decided that it would be easier to rearrange than to repaint as only one of our rooms is square with normal windows.  The others have large half circle windows or slanted ceilings or elevated ceilings or one thousand nooks and crannies that require a 12' ladder, a prayer and a stiff drink to paint.  We also needed more furniture.

As of this afternoon, all the preliminary moving of stuff had been done.  The new furniture is ordered and will be here next weekend.  Charlie has a new bedspread on the way and we made out like bandits today at W@lmart.  Normally I despise that store but we live in a semi-rural area and any other store is a minimum of 45 minutes away.  I never really find anything I like, want or am looking for but today I hit the jackpot.  There must be one day a year that they put out all the good stuff and today was the day.  I have two girls sharing a room and getting them to agree on bedspreads that even remotely match each other much less the paint in the room is a negotiation the likes of which you have never seen.  But today I found a bed set that both girls agreed on AND it matched the room.  I also found sheets for everyone, throw pillows for the futon upstairs in our big girls'/tv room and accessories for Charlie's room.  And no one had a melt down in the store.  Kids or mama.  =)

I know everyone loves pictures so here are some work-in-progress shots.  I'll post some final pictures once everything is done.  The last picture is the small pile of boy stuff I've accumulated.  Remember, we have four girls.  Everything is pink.  Or purple.  Or teal at best.  I've enlisted friends for all kinds of advice and hand-me-downs to help us stock up.

 This used to be the little girls' room.  You can see the remnants of pink.  This will be Charlie's room.

The hallway of hell.  I cannot stand clutter and it seems to originate from the very grounds of our property.  Notice the pink???

This was one of our older girls' room.  This is the room I previously described as a painter's worse nightmare.  So, rather than subject Charlie to purple, we moved Amelia out, moved the little girls in and gave Charlie a more suitably colored boy room.

This is where our older girls will be.  It is a HUGE room (300 sq ft) so one end of it will have two daybeds and the other end will be our kids' tv room.  We only have one other tv in our house so this is SOOOOOOOO nice because, let's be honest, there is only so much animated tv you can watch before you just need some cuss words and nudity.  

And here is my small Charlie pile.  It is fixing to get much bigger but the humble beginning makes me happy.  =)