Sneak peek....and my opinion on bunk beds!

I spent the better part of the last week working on

covering the very saturated dark pink walls in my 

youngest daughter's bedroom with a coat

of Benjamin Moore's Fresh Mint paint.

Phew, I am NOT a patient painter -

I'd rather hire a painter but with the help of

a friend, we knocked it out in a few days.

After many showers, I am still scrubbing paint

off myself - I am seriously a messy painter -

but that's another story.

This room has many issues.....some both good/bad, like built-ins and a 

window seat and some downright challenging like the weird small door that

leads to a finish room - originally intended for storage but my

girl uses for a playroom {it's a Barbie disaster zone!}.

Another challenge is the overall size of the room, it's on the smallish

side.  However, it has a mac-daddy walk-in closet that I actually 

wish had been made smaller in order to give the room 

more space!  But we didn't build the house so we live

with what we bought - which is pretty darn great!  

When we moved in my girl was dying for bunk beds.

And in the throws of moving and feeling the guilt of that,

in addition to seeing the value in the extra bed, we

went ahead and bought a "twin over full" bunk bed.

Functionally, bunk beds make sense if you have to have

two children share a single small room but I have

come to realize they just take up so much vertical 

space that they actually make a room feel so

much smaller.  AND if you asked a kid if they were

comfortable to sleep in, I think 9 out of 10 would

say a resounding "NO"............

So, after a lot of begging from my soon to be 

6th grader, we ended up removing her top bunk

and will put the single mattress on a trundle instead.

Gahhhhhh, I hate wasting $$$ on furniture but in

the end, her room feels so much bigger and 

we did not lose the extra bed for sleepovers,

sister sleepovers etc.....Live and learn.

I am working on finishing touches on the room

and hope to have some before and after

photos soon.