All Work and No Play = No Way!

After a busy week with work, kids and school you would think that the last thing on my mind would be what project I want to conquer next! But of course, that's exactly what I'm doing!

I’ve come to the sad realization that our playroom no longer suits the needs of our two very creative, but extremely unorganized school-age kids. With that said, I am now looking to create a craft and homework room for these well-deserving kiddos.

So where do you start? Well, any designer will tell you a great place to start is with a programming questionnaire – exactly what does your client (or in this case, my kids, husband and I) need and want from this space?

So that is exactly what I am going to do! Figure out what storage requirements we have, what the kids want to do in this room, how will the room grow with them and then what feel do we want from the room? Do we want it to be bright, bold and fun or cool, modern and subdued? Should it mesh with the other adjoining areas of the home? So many questions to ask and so many answers to analyze!

But do you see why these questions need to be answered prior to starting?
It doesn’t make sense to work on a room until you know exactly how you want the room to function and then you can proceed from there.

Here is what our playroom looks like now….....



I wasn't kidding about the unorganized kids part!



Our weekend plan is to get our questions answered and find at least one inspiration image to get us started!

Wish us luck!