Christen
We live in a beautiful home only the 2 extra bedrooms aren't very big. I need ideas on how to better store stuff so my sons room is more roomy and better organized. I plan on making a huge wall shelf that goes up high on the wall and painting it navy blue and getting red canvas containers and putting up there to hold some stuff and decorating it with the sports theme and a couple stuffed animals. Its gonna be huge. I'm excited about my project but maybe you got better ideas or more ideas on how to make my sons room amazing. Eye appealing and organized. Thanks for all the help I can get.
Answer
A kid's bedroom should feel safe, comfortable and have a touch of whimsy. Important considerations are the child's age and interests. If your child is a book lover, collector of Beanies, dolls or baseball memorabilia, you can honor these interests by creating a special space in her room. With your guidance, your child and you can make a great decorating team.
Step 1
Have a chat with your toddler. Does he have a favorite superhero or cartoon? A favorite color? Your son will always remember your respect for his opinion, so this is an important first step.
Step 2
Paint the room and a few furniture pieces to match the walls, such as a bedside table and a headboard.
Step 3
Decorate your toddler's room with bright colors of your (and his) choosing. Find some "big kid" furnishings. Toddlers are learning to dress themselves, so find a short dresser with big knobs. Paint them in bright colors. This allows toddlers to easily pull out the drawers and experience choices in the way they dress.
Step 4
Place a group of cubbies on the floor or hang them on the wall at a height that's reachable for your toddler. Paint them in bright colors, and label them in big letters for things like crayons, books, Playdoh, etc. Cubbies are a great way for kids to learn groupings of objects and organizing. If they go to daycare, they can put their daily arts and crafts projects away in their cubbies until you hang them up later.
Step 5
Frame their artwork. Choose a group of colorful, inexpensive frames and put your child's best pieces into them. Hang them where your child can admire them while dozing off to sleep.
Step 6
Purchase a large toy box at an unpainted furniture store. Paint it in colors that suit your child's tastes. You and your child can paint it together, or he might want to put handprints in different colors all over the box.
Step 7
Choose bedding in colors that complement the paint on the walls and other furnishings. Clashing colors and too much busy-ness should be avoided. Even kids need an oasis.
Step 8
Lay out a soft rug near his bed, especially if you have hardwood flooring. It's a nice way for little toes to meet a new day.
Step 9
Make a space for their collections. Bookshelves can store more than books--they're also a good way to showcase memorabilia. Hang pictures of superheroes, cartoon characters and sports figures or place them on shelves.
Step 10
Realize the importance of consulting with your grade-schoolers or preteens before you decorate their bedrooms. Many preteens will love taking more responsibility for a project like this. It allows them to express their individuality and even show off some innate design skills. Encourage and support their good choices, and provide the structure where needed.
Step 11
Find a big, soft chair or a bean bag and put it near a window or in a corner. It's place where a child, no matter what age, can dream, read or listen to music.
For storage:
Step 1
Make More Storage Space in the Closet
Adding additional rods for hanging clothes is a way to make more storage space in the closet.
⢠Take the existing clothes rod and re-install it at the height where dresses, pants, house coat, or other long items will hang just so they are off the ground.
⢠Install an additional rod above the first rod so shirts, skirts, suit jackets and shorter items will hang.
⢠Organize the clothes on each rod by color, season, etc.
Step 2
More Shelves Make More Storage Space
Instead of piling items on top of each other on one shelf, add shelves.
⢠Look in the closet, pantry, kitchen, and bathroom to see if more shelves can be added.
⢠Most existing shelves can be moved up or down a notch to provide the space necessary to hold items properly and provide room for additional shelves.
⢠Take all items off the shelves and organize according to height or how much the item is used.
⢠Start with the lowest possible position and put the most used items on the shelf.
⢠Place the second shelf one â two inches above the items on the lowest shelf and place the next items.
This will create more storage space for linens, clothes, food, cleaning items, etc.
Step 3
Storage Space - Canned Good Container
Make More Storage Space â Use Storage Containers
Storage containers can be plastic totes that stack on top of each other or pre-made units for closets, pantries, or other places in the home.
⢠Look around the home to see where items may be stacked and determine what needs to be stored appropriately to make more space.
⢠Look at a local hardware or retail store to find a storage container to properly store those items. Spice racks, canned good units, stackable closet drawers, DVD/CD storage units, under-the-bed containers for off-season clothes are all items that will create more space.
⢠Place items in the storage container and see how organization creates more space.
Step 4
Walls Make Storage Space
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Two or Three Bedroom House when you have kids?
Christine
My husband and I are buying a house, we have a two year old. We would prefer a 3 bdrm but we found a REALLY NICE 2bdrm w/ a HUGE family room addition, its a very nice house. We plan on having another baby in a few years (3-4 yrs) so would the 2bdrm house be silly to buy? To me the extra family room completly makes up for only 2 bdrms since it adds so much space but my husband is worried about reselling it, which we wont be doing for atleast 7 years.The 3bdrms in this area in our price range arent as nice though, they all need a lot more work, the 2bdrm we found is move in ready and almost everything has been replaced and it is a lot more square footage than the 3bdrms around here, also there is a finished basement that has a sleeping area, not technically a bedroom but it looks like one to me.. What would you do?
WOW you guys respond really fast! I appreaciate all the answers so far, they are all great! Thanks!
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I am an investor i never buy 2 bedrooms unless i can practically steal it. I would say get a three bedroom or save a little until you can afford a 3 bedroom because if you buy a 2 bedroom this is whats going to happen. In 5 years when you need a three bedroom you will have to sell your home and take a 6% hit on the deal because of a commission then buy again. No guarantee's in this market it will be easy to sell in 5 years or when that time comes. Get what you need now to take care of your family needs for 10 to 20 years.
I am living in my 3 bedroom I have been here 6 years and even if our family expanded we have space.
I would rather see you roll up your sleeves on a 3 bedroom fixer upper and make it into a nice home and cash in on a fat amount of equity then you buy a nice 2 bedroom and sit on it for 5 years then lose 6% to a commission.
Thinking long term as you have heard i am sure pays off!
Remodeling isn't that expensive if you do it yourself. Weekend warrior projects are good to bring family together and will keep you focused close to home. When its finished you will have a prize for less then the ones around you that were nice to start with. when you remodel just save the kitchen for last its the most expensive room in the house.
I toke me 5 years to get our home done and my wife didn't like the process but she also had no idea I had paid cash for our home in less then 4 years. we got it for 65% of its true worth cause it needed fix ups and was a forclosure.
It is in the best hood in town right across street from a park with over a mile of lake frontage and board walk.
I have been an investor of real estate for 17 years now. I look back at all the dumps I bought and fixed up and think that simple little sentence sums it up. Buy the largest junker in the best neighborhood you can. Then fix it up. When you buy your first home I see a lot of growing families settle for 2 bedrooms only to be stuck selling 5 years later or less.
In addition to losing the 6% commission if you have to buy another home in 5 years you will pay a second set of closing costs. All these extra fees from doing multiple transactions add up. When you stay in one spot you pay down the mortgage and wont have to worry about where interest rates are in 5 years when you sell and make a brand new loan on a 3 bedroom. Get the 3 bedroom now and lock rates in cause they are low. Get a fixed rate mortgage and no buy downs on points. PS: professionals call 3 bedroom homes bread and butter homes cause they are trhe easiest to sell!
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