A room for 3

Our big kids are spending time at grandparents...(for the longest stretch ever!). I decided instead of missing them...which I do like crazy...I would spend this time getting the rest of my nest built, so that I would have more time for them when they get home. This room has been a work in progress since we moved in, but I can finally say it is DONE! The only way you get a clean photo of this is the fact that they are gone...so I snagged my chance.

This room is SMALL. It is smaller than any of the bedrooms at our old house, and has more children in it! I first tried a boys room and a girls room, but the babies schedule is just so different, I decided that wasn't fair to Noah to have to be so quiet all the time, and then get awakened early in the am, so I moved him in with the girls. How do you decorate a room for boys and girls? All the ideas I came up with either cost money, or were too cutsie for their age. I feel like this will be the set-up for a couple of years until the babies are bigger, so I wanted to make it something we could all live with.

The girls wanted a purple room. I vetoed that, and said we were going with bright green. I did splurge and get them all a new bedspread. $30 each was the cheapest I could find, and I love all the bright colors of these from WM. They all have the green in them in common.

With a window, a closet with double doors 2 bunkbeds with ladders, a ceiling fan in the way of their poor heads, and the door to their room....I thought I could never swing this.

But we made it work. Barely. I removed the closet doors, and I luckily had these brown curtains that I had no use for, so they cover the window and the closet.
Noah has the space under his bed, the girls have a little nook between the beds with their bookcase and keepsake stuff on it.

How do you decorate the walls? I just decided to use their artwork. This is Leah's,

This is Rachel's

my all-time favorite photo from a trip to the beach

canvas paintings from when they were 4, 5, and 6...and the 1 smaller ones were by Noah and Rachel

Between there is the girl's nook. We got rid of a TON of toys. The kids are kinda getting to the point they are losing some interest, so it made it easier. I do have the closet crammed full of their stuffed animals they couldn't part with. Noah has a closet in our bedroom, aka "lego closet" I will show you that later. I had to move the girl's dresser out too...but had a smaller plastic drawer that is in the closet.

and even had room for one more bunkbed :)