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Dreaming About Kids’ Rooms

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Julie

School starts tomorrow so for the past two days I’ve been working with the kids to get their rooms tidied up before the start of the new school year.

Not “tidying up” so much as organizing and purging. Am I a fun mom or what?!

Is it just my own kids or do others suffer from a minor hoarding addication as well? As we went through their drawers and bins we easily threw away a gazillion super balls, countless candy wrappers (yes, with no candy in them), and who knows how many dollar store toys from birthday parties. Unfortunately, the list could go on! Earlier this morning, my daughter was struggling through which stuffed animals to let go of and which ones to keep. It wasn’t pretty. She has at least 100 stuffed animals. Gah!

It seemed like we’d never reach the end and — in my perfectionist eyes — we’re not quite there yet, but I told them “good job” and let them have some fun with friends. When they’re in school I’ll finish up and go all Container Store on them. Ha!

Until then, I thought I’d share a little kids study area and bedroom inspiration. I’m dreaming of neat, tidy and cute kids spaces!

First some boys rooms:
(All pictures from Houzz.com)

Love the cabinets and storage here below:

Traditional Kids design by New York MARIANNE LARSEN

Eclectic Kids design by Atlanta Interior Designer Cristi Holcombe

Contemporary Kids design by San Francisco Interior Designer lisa rubenstein – real rooms design

Modern Kids design by Dc Metro Interior Designer Laura Manning Bendik

Traditional Kids design by New York Interior Designer Cindy Rinfret

Eclectic Kids design by Chicago Interior Designer Shelly Walton

Eclectic Kids design by Other Metros Interior Designer Seaside Interiors

Modern Kids design by Dc Metro Architect Carlyn And Company Interiors + Design

What’s inspiring you?

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Fighting Summer Boredom

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Julie

School starts in two and a half weeks and the kids are a little bored. What to do?

At the beginning of the summer I scoured Pinterest and craft blogs for some summer boredom ideas and came up with this:

Popsicle sticks with fun activities written on each one. When someone says, “I’m bored” they can pick a stick at random and do what it says. There are even a few chores thrown in to get them to think twice before telling me they can’t think of anything to do.

To be honest, we haven’t used it much. We have been keeping pretty busy with camps, friends and swimming in our backyard pool But this week is a different story. With no camps and friends away on vacation we needed a diversion!

I told the kids to choose 3 sticks…the ideas they most wanted to do. Here’s what they chose:

Idea #1: Build a fort. Hooray! They raced upstairs and started building. They were quiet for 30 whole minutes. When they were done they yelled to tell me they were finished and would I please come and look at it. So I did.

“Great job you two!” I praised.

Kids: “Okay. So now what do we do?”

Aaarrgh.

“Now you play in it!” I exclaimed.

Quizzical looks on their faces.

“If you don’t want to play in it you can make it bigger. We have more blankets.”

Son: “That takes too much work.”

Daughter: “Yeah. I don’t want to make it bigger.”

Me: “So play in it then. Read a book in it. Have a puppet show in it.”

Son/Daughter together: “No.”

Ugh. On to Activity #2. We’ll see how long that lasts.

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