Basement Play Rooms

I have been wanting to put pictures of the basement up on this blog for a little while now.  The reason I haven't been able to until now is that I am a slob.  The rooms in the basement were way too messy to show to the public.  Enter my mother.  Mom came to visit and helped to clean up the toy rooms so that we could host Sofi Sue's birthday party without any children being swallowed into a black hole of clutter.  The play rooms are two small rooms at the front of the basement.  They are the first rooms I fixed up when we moved in because I wanted the kids to feel at home and have a place to play and keep their toys.  Here is how they looked before:







And here is how they look now:

I pulled up the carpeting and added a bright green foam floor from HERE.  I painted the walls white because I had already put a lot of color on the floor.

 Tim and I put in the rock climbing wall, added a trapeze and painted one wall with chalkboard paint.

 In the second room we added an art desk and a rack to hang dress up clothing on.

I love the fabric I found for the curtains and I made little curtain tie-backs out of pieces of branches.

The light I have owned for years, but the original shade had fallen to pieces, so I bought fabric to make a new shade.

I decorated with old classroom posters that I found at a garage sale.

Thanks for cleaning up these rooms Mom so I could finally put them on the blog!  Love you!