Back in November we randomly put our house on Zillow's Make Me Move to see what we could sell it for. Four weeks later, it was sold and we had moved out! It happened fairly quickly, we did not expect it to actually happen at all. We did it just to play around. Now five months later we've settled in to our new home in a new city, but not far from where we were. This meant creating a new play space for my son. I have to be honest, I wasn't as motivated this time around. Probably because I was unpacking boxes and arranging an entire home! The new house has one bedroom downstairs, we chose to make that the playroom because it's the main living floor. I used a lot of the same furniture but incorporated a few new things.
 | The downstairs bedroom we are using as a play room has tiled flooring. I do not like tile in bedrooms, so we bought those large (24 x 24) foam tiles from BJ's Warehouse Club and covered the room with the tiles. This makes it safer than having a hard surface floor in a playroom. I don't have the tiles on one side of the room because their thickness prevented the closet doors from opening. |
The room is set up different and slightly smaller than the old play room so I had to move things around a number of times to get it the way I wanted. These photos show a messy room because my son was just playing in here a few minutes before snapping the photo. I love that he can play and then I can just shut the door if people come over. No, not with him inside... No mess to be seen behind a closed door! the closet is filled with unopened toys, a bookshelf with my old classroom picture books, arts and craft supplies, and larger ride on toys.
| In the old house we had an Ikea bookshelf in our foyer with nice wicker baskets. It doesn't match our new layout, so I bought new bins and put it in the playroom as extra storage space. I have the TV anchored on top, the bottom row bins are from Ikea as well, and the top row are plastic bins from the Target $ section. |  |
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