Girls' Bedroom Suite

One of the things we wanted to do before bringing our adopted son home was get some much needed renovations done on the inside of the house.

Our girls are polar opposites. One likes pink and everything girly, the other loves blue and sports and asks for boy toys for Christmas. We always wanted the girls to share a room and to be close. They have shared ever since Savannah moved into a big girl bed. But, as they have gotten older we were finding it harder to mesh their very different tastes.

When we moved into this house there was a huge room the same size as our master that had an ensuite bath. At the time it was the best room for the girls. We quickly found however that bigger is not always better. While they had tons of room for their things, they also had room to make huge messes. They would manage to fling socks, toys, clothes all across the room and then the inevitable "I didn't make that mess, my sister did!" response would bellow down the hall.

We decided we wanted the girls to each have their own room but we still wanted them to have to share a space of some kind. We also didn't want their rooms to be huge. Just enough space to study and sleep and have some personal space. They end up sharing toys and they like to watch movies together so we wanted them to have a "play" area that would be shared. So we divided the space into three smaller rooms. The bathroom we will get to in another post. Anyways, here is the floor plan we came up with.

The girls room is accessible through a room we call the lounge room that is off of the main hallway. They have a TV in there, a couple of mini couches that fold out into mini beds and a bookcase/storage unit where they house their toys and books. When they have sleepovers they pile into this room. I wish it could be a little bigger but it is what it is.

This room also gives access to their huge walk in closet that they share.

Construction began on July 5th and they moved into their rooms around Aug. 15. Their rooms were not decorated by then but liveable. Here are a couple of pics of us in mid construction. I'll post pics of the girls individual rooms later (need to clean them up and get some pics).
By the way, the girls are writing scripture on the "bones" of their room. They also ended up drawing smiley faces and something about a peanut....Everything turns into a game with them.