We hit a milestone here last month. DD1 moved in to her own apartment. She graduated last may with her BSN. Took her boards in July and started a new grad program in August. Her leaving means only 2 kids to go until I'm an empty nester.
It also means I can't finally convert her room to a craft room/guest room/office for me.
So I'm starting by cleaning the room from top to bottom. I love the kiddo, but she was definitely a piglet. Her carpet is pretty bad. I was going to hire a company to come out and clean it, but the cheapest I could find was $140 for 2 rooms. I borrowed a Bissel from my mom instead. It's a lot of work, but definitely will be worth saving $120 (after spending about 20 for the cleaning solution). I'm taking a break right now and blogging, then I will get back to scrubbing.
Once that's clean, it will be time to paint. The room and bathroom aren't that big, so paint will be a relatively inexpensive spruce up. After that, I plan on "shopping" my basement for things to furnish and decorate the space with. My current craft table is a door on two wire book shelves in the basement. Not pretty, but functional. I think I'm going to take some of my fabric stash to make a table skirt to beautify it, as well as hide supplies underneath. The guest bed is going to be a tougher item. It may take awhile to come up with something for that, but I'm not really in a hurry.
Lots to do, but my plan is to convert it from a kids room to my new space for less than $100.00.
Wish me luck.
Redecorating on a budget
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I substituted a daybed frame for bed bought from an on-line seller like CraigsList . Didn't care as it always has a quilted cover. I moved cu t-out squares of paper [represent pieces of furniture] around a piece of graph paper to figure out placement relative to electric outlets, natural light, windows, doors and open drawer space requirements.
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Clear bins are not too expensive especially with a coupon from Joann/Michael or Bed Bath Beyond. They also have them at Lowes. Wait until it is a deal you can't pass up.