We began moving in furniture and toys to the new playroom today. Sofa's had to be retrieved from the garage, put onto the back of G's truck, driven around the house and carried in through the doors downstairs. The (extremely heavy) TV had to be retrieved from next doors garage, and my desk had to be retrieved from next doors basement.
Next we began to move boxes of toys in. In Canada we had a wonderful basement playroom for the kids which was pretty enormous. It was also built in a boxy kind of way which meant there were lots of little hidey places for crates of toys full of cars, trains and similar and they didn't look out of place. This room being as it is (open, airy), we immediately realised that all the plastic crates were not going to work. The solution was to remove a pile of things from some shelving in the kitchen and take the shelves downstairs where we could plonk alot of the toys. We got as far as we could but we have run out of shelf space so I think tomorrow is going to involve yet another trip to IKEA to buy more.
Consequently we have been unable to unpack some of the toys (the majority are done) and we haven't been able to bring down the enormous amount of toy clutter from upstairs...... or as yet my PC.... but it's certainly a vast improvement! I will post some photo's at some point, the transformation is fairly incredible looking back on the photo's of 'what it used to look like'. I'm proud of our accomplishment. It has taken a long time but it's been well worth it, and I cannot wait for the rest of the place to look as smart.
Posted by katie at January 21, 2006 07:46 PM