Joy!

I had the pleasure of working with Joy yesterday.  She is one busy lady with 4 sweet kiddos 5 and under.  She wanted me to help her sort out their rooms a bit.  The time had come for baby to move from her parents' room so the goal was for us to arrange a girl room and a boy room.  

Here you can see the fab loft bed Joy's husband built in order to get both girls together.

We moved it all the way against the wall to create a little space for a book shelf we stole from the boys' room.  

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We moved the dresser to the other side of the room and fit all the girls clothes into it with baskets on top for baby socks and shoes.

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 Joy is refinishing a cute desk which will live in the space where the dresser had been.

We moved a cupboard into the closet to create a spot for tidy toy storage.

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After a serious purge and sort, we ended up with 4 categories of toys and used bins from around the house to hold them which will make for easier clean up.

And now for the boys.

We used an empty filing cabinet from the basement for toy storage.

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Lego is loose in the bottom drawer so it is easy for the boys to sit on the floor and access it.  The top drawer has a bin for cars and a few larger toys.  The container on top holds all other toys.  Stuffies are literally stuffed in the corner of the closet. 

Keeping clean up for little ones basic and straight forward without too many sorting requirements, makes it much easier to train them to keep their rooms tidy.

Since we were able to empty the storage unit I switched up the dresser a bit.

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This little unit was also in the basement so I brought him up to store books.  Board books for little brother in the basket and big boy books hiding behind the door.

The chair moved into the empty space where the bookshelf had been that I brought into the girls' room.

On to the office area.

We sorted the papers on the upper shelf into file boxes.  The tool basket got switched for a prettier look.

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We found a container for pencils, set up a file box for "to do" items and sorted and purged random papers.

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We did some more sorting and purging through the boxes on the shelves and ta da!  

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I had a wonderful time working with Joy who is extremely creative and so sweet!  Huge thanks to her hubby for all the carrying, hanging and fixing.