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Painting Party and Room Swap

Brynn has been wanting to change her bedroom color for some time now. Daddy finally relented and offered to help her paint her room her fav color, blue. A few weekends ago they tackled the project. Brynn did a lot of painting herself and did a great job at that. 







Here is the finished result. There are some additional changes to her room as well as this past weekend we switched our office/spare bedroom with Clara's room. In that move we also swapped Brynn's bed with the spare bed.



I also picked up this desk that I found for sale on the Facebook Garage Sale page. I need to find a chair to go with it now too. And wall decor.



Here are our desks smashed into Clara's old room. Our room swap did force me to purge some old things I didn't need anymore; always a good thing to shovel out once in a while. We are enjoying our 'new' office so far.



Clara is still sleeping in her crib for right now, but we thought it made more sense to have Brynn's smaller bed in Clara's room so eventually when Clara transitions out of her crib, she can use this bed. Then if we have company stay, they can sleep in Brynn's full-size bed and Brynn can have a sleepover with Clara in her old bed in this room. Brynn was reluctant to switch beds at first, but the larger one is more comfortable for her. The girls are excited for their first 'sleepover' together which they are loosely planning for tomorrow night. We'll see how that goes!



It's so much nicer for Clara to have a larger closet and more space for her toys. And it's nice that both girls have more similarly-sized rooms now, right next to each other. And again, wall decor in here as well. But now that we just repainted Brynn's room, together with the fact that this room is the only one that hasn't been repainted at all since we moved in almost 12 years ago, I really want to update the wall color in here. I'm thinking a charcoal gray perhaps. So, stay tuned...that might be the next update!


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theweckerlys said…
Looks great!! Can't wait to see the changes in person. Maybe auntie can have a sleepover sometime too!

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