Play Space for Sophia

Hello Everyone!

I hope you all had a great Valentine weekend. 

The family and I went to a party and while the kids swam, the parents danced! ;-)

Anyway, back to reality. I wanted to share with you Sophia's Current "play Space" by our living room.

The many things we get for our baby's 'happiness (& ours)

Currently my MIL is taking care of dear Sophia until June.  When she leaves, we plan NOT to send her to Day care and hire a day time nanny to be with her at home.

And with that, we had to ensure that Sophia will have her basic necessities outside of our room too since I'm still not sure when I could get the nursery done. This space will hopefully be only temporary.

We have this small space in between the living room & breakfast area. It's also the door way leading up to the pool. But knowing that that door will be used only during the summer, we decided to stash all of her stuff here. And hence, the problem.

My mis-trial rug

I tried putting this green tile carpet I bought from Home-depot, but I didn't think it looked good...

I want to make this a bit more pleasing on the eye and not just a mish-mash of her things. 

Something like this...

Sophia's Space

I know I just added a rug. But just like what a tray does to coral our table vignettes, I think a good rug can anchor a space very well too.

I'm still at a loss on what to do.
Do you have any suggestions?


Have a Nice day!

VEL

Skeleton Closet NO MORE - Part 1

I'm sure you still remember my super messy and chaotic Decor Stash Closet/ Room??

Yes, have to show this again.. 

I mean, who could forget (well actually it is quite forgettable or something you'd wanna forget) this space???? I still see it in my sleep, a real nightmare!

Anyway, I did it! Fixed up and spruced it up and I'm pretty pleased for now.

Take a look...

Not bad eh?!

 I added these inexpensive plastic shelves I bought from Menards.
And purged a lot and gave it to Goodwill.

Happy "Shopping" in my home from now on

 The pillows up top are usually inside zipped bags I scored from the Dollar Store to keep the dust away!

Bottom organization

 I placed all the wall decor and frames here along with all the basket, some seasonal stuff and sewing supplies.

This is the other side of the room...

Much better

 The black drawer bins contains gloves, scarves, mittens and hats for winter storage.

Master Bedroom Comforters organized!

 I moved the comforters out of Sophia's closet here. And I am happy to free up her closet for her own things finally! Now I can begin fixing it up too!

I hung other pillow covers on the side of the shelving. And placed other room pillows here too.

It's still needs a lot of tweaking, like changing the floors and painting the room (I do want it to look good like the rest of the basement), and I need to add peg boards to display wall-arts I have hanging around.

But after, the very SAD BEFORE  I am pretty shopping in my HAPPY AFTER!!!!

Have a Great Valentine Weekend!

VEL 

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Skeleton Closets

Hello Friends!

First of all, thank you for all your kind words of sympathies on my friends demise.
There is still sadness in my heart but of course, life has to go on.
And so today, I share with you these:

Nope, this is not about a closet full of skeletons...

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I'm sure if it was, you'd stop reading right now and never return to this blog! LOL!

It's about those closets that we all wish WE DIDN'T HAVE.

I take that back, I still want the closet, it's just how it looks in it's current state that I DON'T WANT TO HAVE.

First up, Sophia's Closet/Linen Closet

Only one side of the closet

 You see our Master Bedroom linen is stashed up in my little Sophia's closet on the other side (Sorry, forgot to take a picture since I just moved some of the stuff out already).

 And since we're so close to doing the nursery, I better get rid of our stuff fast and stash it somewhere!
The problem is these bulky comforters just take up so much space ( I promise never to buy these again, will just buy lovely duvets which are easy to store and keep from now on!).

Second Closet - Decor Stash Closet/room

Since you all know I'm an avid Redecorator, I have a lot of stuff that needs to be stashed in a room .
This is that room in it's current chaotic state....

I know, horrible isn't it?!

Mishmash of stuff!

Sad but true, this room exists in my house.
I need to re-organize this fast since I need to know what I really have and don't have and appreciate what I have more!

There's a HUGE lamp in there somewhere????

Also, I want to make "shopping in my home" a little more fun too!
This space just needs a good cleaning, purging and organizing I think and it will be ok (easier said than done, ha!)!

Anyhow, now you've seen my "skeletons in the closet" , I mean, "Skeleton closets" I hope you don't judge my messy little self. After all, I'm not proud of these spaces, but I thought I'd put it out there to motivate me more to FIX IT UP!

 I can see a solution forming in my mind and I know with a little elbow grease I can fix these messy spaces soon!!!!

I better get my apron and cleaning gears on, I will surely keep you posted!

How about you, do you have 'secret' "Skeleton Closets" in your home too?

Hope your havin' a Mess-Free day!

VEL 

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