A Room With No Name

That seems an easier way to refer to our extra room than as the Guest Room/Play Room/Craft Room, don’t you think?

We are lucky enough to have found an apartment with a fourth small bedroom that we can use as a substitute for some of the other rooms we used to have in our house back in the States.

A real guest bed won’t fit in the room, nor can we really afford to take up all the space in the room most of the time with a bed, so we brought an Ikea sofa bed.  It’s nice in that there’s somewhere for The Cuties to stretch out with friends and color or play games, and when guests come to visit, they’ll have somewhere to sleep at our place.  The colorful rug is also from Ikea, and I hope will help protect the light-colored carpet while the girls do crafts at the table there.  The “coffee table” is actually two super-cheap end tables pushed together from the Target dorm collection.

I brought bookshelves from home for all my craft stuff and my self-imposed rule was that it all had to be able to fit on these two shelves {already I’m a big fat liar, but I had a plan in mind for where the other things will go so that doesn’t count – seriously, and it’s a good plan you’ll get to see in a second}.

Of course my other secret plan was that the felt is a consumable, so once that’s used up I have license to start shopping all those fabulous Japanese craft stores {hopefully this particular post hits at a busy moment in time for Cute Husband and he’s going to just gloss over that little revelation!}.

And here’s my tiny little desk and chair and the wrapping paper I schlepped with me {which between me and the Internet honestly should have gone to storage since I’m living in the land in the most beautiful gift wrapping supplies in the world, but c’est la vie!}.

This room also has two of those great tall closets like in Little Cutie’s room.  One of them is stuffed with off-season clothes and golf clubs, but the other has more good stuff!  The Cuties and their friends can help themselves to coloring supplies and craft kits.  I’ve got my sewing machine, camera bag, laptop bag and stash of gift bags easily accessible.

But I’m most excited about the pants hangers I brought for all of my Silhouette vinyl.  Even Cute Husband acknowledged its a great solution for it, especially because I can’t add things like shelves or other vertical storage options to the room.

And those drawers?  Those are like my new “mini Monica closet” and already filled with random crap.  It’s a sickness, what can I say?