New House Tour: Upstairs

This past week we’ve been doing a little spring cleaning upstairs. Every single closet, nook and cranny has been cleaned out. Two bags of trash, a big tub of donations, and 8 loads of laundry all came out of the upstairs. Yes, I said 8. I’m not naming names but two little (older) girls have been just shoving all the clean clothes I give them to put up into the laundry hamper with the dirty clothes and when that got too full they started shoving them into a closet along with dirty clothes. sigh. So since upstairs is much, much cleaner than it normally is, I figured it’d be a good day to show you around the new house that we moved into a few months ago. Let’s start at the beginning, the playroom. This is just a little nook area at the top of the stairs where we keep toys. Apart from stuffed animals and a few extra special toys they keep on their bed, the older girls are not supposed to have toys in their room. Read the words, “supposed”, and then pretend I really said that the older girls need to keep their room looking like a toy bomb went off in there and that would be more realistic. This week we sorted all the toys into bins now stored in the cabinets and the 4 bins on the shelves. It looks great but only because we were gone tonight. I’m sure that as soon as they wake up tomorrow it’ll be back to nuclear status. Next is the older girl’s room which I would love to have decorated to the nines and looking like it’s straight from Pinterest but you know what? Kids live here, it’s not gonna happen. When we bought the beds I was dreaming of having the little cubbies in the headboard cute and sassy at all times. Then the kids got the beds and they have their precious treasures there, in the way that they want them. That’s good enough for me. We still need to find them some curtains and some other decorations but we’ll get there. Princess Newbie has the smallest room but she happens to be the smallest family member so it works. All she needs is her car bed that she can climb on and toy boxes to dump out when she’s supposed to be taking a nap and she’s happy. The purple stuff on the walls are paint samples. I was planning on lilac scallops but as for right now, I’m not sure what we’re going to do. Maybe I’ll wait a few more months until she can tell me what color she wants. The upstairs bathroom was really bland when we moved in. Every single wall in the house was beige and the bathroom just wasn’t one that I felt like painting at the moment. So I put in my fabulous Home Goods shower curtain along with some cheap rugs from Big Lots and the cute little flower stickers on the walls from THE DOLLAR TREE! and it’s a cute, bright room. We’ll save the messiest for last. This is our craft room/ guest room.  It’s still not totally unpacked and definitely not decorated. The bedside table is really just a tupperware container with a blanket over the top. The rest of the room is just messy messy but it’s really not a priority yet. If you come to visit, I promise to shove the mess into a closet, I mean clean it up. Eventually this will be a pinterest worthy room but for right now it will be just fine. I hope you enjoyed your tour. Today I’m thankful for the internet because my grandparents can finally see our home. (Granny please ignore the messy craft room. Actually, that’s Julia’s house… not mine. She needs to clean that place up!)