When we started getting ready for Jase to make his entrance into our lives, we knew we had to figure something out with our bedroom situation. Our house has three bedrooms, so we had a few options. We could add on a bedroom. We could have let the girls keep their own rooms and put Jase in our room. Or we could let the girls share a room and put Jase in his own room. We let the girls’ decide what they wanted to do, and they chose to share a room. (Yay, because this was actually the easiest option!)
I knew I wanted both girls to have their own closet space, so we moved an armoire into the girls’ room to be Libby’s hanging space. It serves as her closet, while Kyndall gets the real closet.
Way back in October we ordered bunk beds from a local furniture store. There were lots of issues and the beds just ended up arriving about two weeks ago. Kyndall has the top bunk and Libby has the bottom and they absolutely love it. They want to stay in their room all the time!
The bunk beds have these neat drawers on the bottom that store lots of toys. I used some bins that we already had to help organize their smaller toys.
For Christmas, the girls got a desk to share, with two rolling chairs. (Side note: This desk stayed in our living room until the bunk beds arrived. Those chairs probably made 1700 laps around the house on our hardwood floors. Thank goodness the bunk beds finally came in!)
Their dresser holds all their folding clothes–Kyndall has the right side of drawers and Libby has the left.
I don’t know how long this arrangement will work–I assume in a few years the girls are going to want their own spaces–but for now, it is working perfectly! Now if I can just figure out how to teach the girls to keep it organized the way I like it, everything will be grand. <–Any tips on that?
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