Around the Watts House: PLAY ROOM

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Friday, August 15, 2014

Playroom Reveal!

Rordan's playroom is done! I actually hadn't planned on changing up the house layout, but once I created my first playroom mood board, I think I was hooked. I ended up making three different mood boards (MB2 & MB3). I drew inspiration from each to come up with the final product. We wanted this room to double as a playroom, and a guest room, since the existing guest room is now the catch all room/exercise room. We searched for a couch that would fold out into a bed, and luckily the one we found is not only awesome looking, but very comfortable. We don't get many guests, so the fact that it's only a twin shouldn't be a problem. If anything, someone can sleep on the couch. Sorry future guests!

We hit up Ikea, and Target for many of the items you see in the room, as well as our own items. I'll probably source the items if anyone is interested in knowing what they are or where they are from, or if I find the time this weekend. LOL! Ultimately, I think we ended up with a nice looking, functional, and fun playroom. My main goal was to keep in mind Rordan's interests, and have all the things he loves up here in this room. So far, he seems to be having a blast playing in it. It's not usually this tidy, but thankfully, it's actually very easy to clean up, thanks to all the storage! Oh, I didn't mention it, but the couch bottom lifts up to hold items as well. Very clever, and functional! Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that I made all the artwork in the room. I drew inspiration from quotes I've seen on the internet, and one Land of Nod picture in particular. I bet you can spot it! I ended up creating the image on Photoshop, and having it blow up into a poster at our local office supplies store. I think I saved about $80 doing it this way. I love graphic art, so this was a fun little project for me. Okay, well here are the pictures of the room. This room was so hard to photograph, by the way! The lighting is wonderful, but I just couldn't find the "perfect" setting on my camera to capture things as clearly as I needed. I hate when that happens to me. Guess I should brush up on my camera setting skills. :)

So I hope y'all enjoyed the reveal! Rordan is our first child, and we waited so long to actually have a child so we could do things just like this for him. I thank the good Lord that we are fortunate enough to be able to do this sort of thing for him.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

Playroom Mood Board #2

Play Room by irisnacole-1 featuring shelves furniture

With the built in almost done for the entertainment room, an idea crossed my mind. Why not turn our current "exercise room" into the "play room"? I don't know why it never crossed my mind before! I mean, we had the builder add double doors to the joining wall, so that it would open up the rooms and allow for other activities to be enjoyed while we were watching T.V., or a movie. Before Rordan, of course our idea for that room was to have it house the exercise equipment. We had no clue about how much space we'd need to house all of the toys that come along with a child. The entertainment room has been the playroom for about a year now, though for the past few months, we've stayed mostly downstairs due to the work going on up there. So now we have plans to move the exercise equipment, which we rarely use by the way, to the "guest bedroom". We've never had guest, I doubt we ever will, but just in case, we plan on buying a fold out couch, or futon to add to the new playroom. Our plan is to sell as much of the furniture in the guest bedroom as we can to help offset the cost for the new playroom. I'm decorate happy for sure, but we don't have deep pockets, so I have to do something. I think a garage sale is in our future, though I think we will try some online options first. I feel like we might get more that way.
With Rordan getting older, things are changing as far as what is required to entertain him, as well as how much wear and tear things take around him. We don't need as many "baby" toys, so I'm thinking of phasing those out. It's been hard to do that in the past, because each time we think he is over a toy, he seems to gain interest in it again. He's playing with puzzles a lot more, and loves being at the table, so I want a small coffee table for him to do that on. The room is big enough to allow for him to run around even with something taking up space in the middle. I'd also like to make sure that the room is something he can grow into, instead of, out of, as he has the previous set up. Here's to hoping!
I'm thinking a nice mix of existing furniture and some new pieces from Ikea will do the trick. Nothing too expensive, and nothing we'd cry over, if for some reason they were to take a good beating. Did I mention that Rordan loves to hammer on tables? He doesn't actually use a hammer, just any old object he might find. I'm lucky most of my tables downstairs are distressed, and easily hide the new distressing they have received. Hey, he may just be the next great furniture maker, so be on the lookout for all of his distressed tables in about twenty years.
I was looking around for inspiration, and found myself on Polyvore a few days ago. I shared the ideas here in the blog, that I came up with for the room. I was looking it over, and though it really made my heart skip a beat with how nice it looked, of course, we can't afford all of the crazy expensive pieces that are shown. I figure, if this is going to happen, it will happen on a budget, and I'm trying to add as many pieces as I can to the idea, that reflect items that we already own, or can easily make. I've been inspired by a few of the wall art pieces I chose, so I can't wait to tackle them. I've already figured out how to make my own version of the numbers display. I'll share that in a later post. Hopefully when the room is done.