Lia’s Princess Playroom

Before I begin I have to tell you I save everything and I mean everything! I never know when someday I may need something. I participated in a 5 day De-Stress your Mess Challenge a few weeks ago and I’ve been decluttering, reorganizing, donating things, selling things and tossing so many things I thought I needed! During this class the instructor told us there are 7 days in a week and “someday” isn’t one of them. So I’m off to a good start at letting things go and Rich is the first to load them up for the recycling center! He has been shredding papers for a week! This past weekend Rich and I converted the computer room/office into Lia’s Princess playroom!

I don’t have a room shot of before but let me just say the room was full! No, it was overfull! These pictures show the work in progress. I have a large computer hutch and a few years ago we added a computer desk with hutch and rolling filing cabinet. While starting the de-cluttering I realized both weren’t needed and one had to go. So I cleaned out the entire six foot high hutch to sell. While I was cleaning it out, more than half the things went to the recycling center. I originally had the desk hutch on top of a row of filing cabinets and it worked well but my new plan was to put it on the desk top.

So I’m looking at a cleaned off desk and hutch getting ready to list the large hutch for sale. But then I had a thought… I love the hutch, when I’m not using the computer everything is neatly stored behind closed doors and it would look much neater than having things on an open desk. So I changed my plan and got rid of the desk instead of the computer hutch!

There were also three filing cabinets in the room that I still use for storage so I planned to move them to the MBR closet. Once hubby got them upstairs, I changed my mind….again! I took our old round table night stands and changed them out for the filing cabinets! More on this room when I get to de-cluttering the master bedroom but that will be a ways down the road! But this just shows that this is a good way to re-purpose things!

So everything was out of the room that needed to be and now it was time for the fun room makeover! The Princess tent was already in the room and the two unicorn panels were ones I got as a review product. They worked perfect to add color to the wall that didn’t have windows and I hung them on spring tension rods under my Angel shelves. Another re-purpose item is the bookshelf. That was upstairs with some embroidering supplies but since I embroidering machine is now in the sewing workroom, I moved them and hubby brought the bookshelf down for Lia’s books.

This is my corner and since I don’t use it full time I decided to get rid of the bulky computer chair that wasn’t needed. Instead I kept the side chair that I covered to match the draperies. I have to arrange the items on top of the hutch but for now they work where they are.

Check this out, Lia has an exercise corner in her playroom! She loves to jump on her trampoline and now it is in a dedicated space. I like the set up of her room, it’s in front of the TV room and there is a partial wall where her tent is with a four foot opening so while she’s playing we can see her and she can see us.

The art wall is my favorite! I am in the process of hanging priceless art work from our grands and great grandchildren. These are the best kind of gifts we love to receive.

The room makeover for Lia’s Princess playroom is complete! It even has a gated entrance to keep Rusty out when he’s not on his best behavior.

When Lia came home Sunday afternoon, she went in her room and looked around where everything was. The first thing she did was move a few things on her shelf and move her bucket of blocks to the other side of the shelf from where I had them. She know where she wanted what! After dinner she went back in her playroom, came out and said, “I love my house!” The only thing we need to add is a welcome sign for her front door!

Last week we completed the upstairs room that use to be our grandchildren’s playroom. Now it’s a room where Rich can see his Nascar and Harley collectibles once again and Lia has room to hang out! This is the blog I shared for Wordless Wednesday about this room. http://themarthareview.com/de-clutter-one-room-at-a-time/