room reveal: farmhouse playroom

When we moved into the farmhouse, the upstairs consisted of one bedroom and an open loft area.

The whole upstairs is in a plus-sign shape, so there was the potential for three smaller "rooms".

We needed one more bedroom to give the girls each their own rooms, so we will finally build a wall in the next few weeks to give Harlee some privacy. We also added a bathroom, so the girls could have their own bathroom up there.

The leftover loft space became our farmhouse playroom.

Before we moved in, the upstairs was brown paneling.  

We thought about putting up drywall, but the more I thought about it, it was just an extra unnecessary expense.

So we decided to paint instead.

As I talked about in a previous post, we chose "Warm Oatmeal" for the color.  It's a creamy tone that's pretty close to white, without being white.

It turned out exactly how I pictured.  

I love the contrast between the walls and the original wood trim.

I love that there is still great natural light.

I love that the space will now be a fully functional and organized playroom!

And now....the moment you've all been waiting for...the Room Reveal for our Farmhouse Playroom.

To be quite honest, this room has already evolved a bit since we moved in last July. 

We had originally planned to have the Barbies and doll clothes housed upstairs, but with the older two girls having bedrooms up there and our three-year-old downstairs, that setup just didn't make sense anymore.

So we moved the Barbie house downstairs to Mattie's bedroom and made the playroom a little more functional for the preteens.

We knew we wanted to have a designated homework area for the girls that was away from the distractions of the main floor of the house.  

My mom bought these two little antique school desks at an auction for a few bucks several years ago and they fit perfectly between these bookcases and light fixture that came with the bed set we bought secondhand when we first got married.  

The bed had definitely seen better days, but the shelves were in good shape and we were pleasantly surprised to see how amazingly the desks fit in-between them!

All the furniture you see here were items we already had.

The only new purchases were my Pioneer Woman map (still my absolute favorite purchase from our trip back in the summer) and the two scripture references on either side of the map.

I'm hoping to implement some sort of a letter-writing system between the three girls and plan to use the little cubbies in the middle of the desks to be their mailboxes.  

​Below the windows (the beautiful NEW windows!) is a cool old buffet my parents' had at the house.  The legs were cut off and it's now a nice bench for the girls to sit on.

I bought the indoor-outdoor rug from WalMart on clearance last fall for our living room.  It never really "fit" there, so I decided to try it upstairs.  PERFECT!  The curtains were made by a good friend and bring the whole space together!

We had the cubbies on the west wall at the old house.  They could probably be more organized at this moment, but at the ages the girls are, there are just some things that they need every once in a while that don't have a home.

Hopefully this summer, we'll have some time to sit down and go through the cubbies to purge and make sure they're not bulging quite as badly as they are now...but for now, it's hidden, so I'm okay with that.

The conglomeration of wall art is made up of various prints from Hobby Lobby, Mardel, Target, and thrift stores. 

When I saw the Scentsy warmer on a friend's Facebook garage sale, I knew I had to have it for this room.  WalMart lamps and an adorable globe from WalMart finish off the look.

​The humidifier gives it a nice look too, don't you think?  😉

For nine years at the old house, we tried to carve out a place for the girls to relax that was "their own".

First, we had a nursery in one bedroom and a playroom in the other.

When we brought Baby #2 home, the playroom got changed into a "big girl bedroom" for Baby #1 and the toys stayed in there.

We put the girls together eventually and moved the playroom to where the nursery had originally been.

When Baby #3 came home, the playroom became a nursery/playroom combo.

Before we moved out here to the farmhouse, we even tried to put all three girls in one room to sleep and have the toys and desks in the other.

It just never worked out quite like we had pictured.

Until now.

The farmhouse playroom is all I had ever hoped for.

It sits opposite the new bathroom, with the older girls' bedrooms on either side.

When Harlee's wall is complete and the new bathroom has a door, I will do a walk-through of the whole upstairs.

Can't wait to share it with you SOON!

Happy Sunny Saturday from the Farmhouse, friends!

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