The Great Bedroom Flip

When we moved into our home nearly 7 years ago it was considered a 2-bedroom home.  (There was a "bedroom" in the basement, but it couldn't be called that because it didn't have an egress window.)  So when we brought Rebecca home from the hospital her and Micah had to share a bedroom.  Not ideal for children of opposite sex to be sharing a bedroom, but we figured we had a few years before that became and issue.

When Olivia came along we decided that we should egress the basement window and that the older two could sleep down there and Olivia would have the bedroom upstairs.  We stole borrowed bunk beds from Nick's parents and a dress and chest of drawers from my parent's and the older two had a nice bedroom in the basement. Olivia has been quite content in her crib for the last 2 1/2 years.

All was well until this crazy spring weather interrupted our arrangements.

I had just begun to start thinking about what we were going to do with the sleeping arrangements because at age 8 Micah should maybe not be sharing a bedroom with his sister any more.  I wasn't sure how or when I was going to make all the changes, but the weather had a way of speeding the process up.

When you take really dry land and you have 5 inches of rain dumped on you in 24 hours homes like ours get some water in the basement and along with that you get wet carpeting. Ugh.

So everything and I mean everything had to come out of the kid's bedroom in the basement. Not an easy task

It was decided that for the time being the older two would just sleep with their mattresses on the family room in the other part of the basement.   Not ideal, but they had to sleep somewhere and the living room floor upstairs wasn't really an option. :)

In the midst of drying carpet and trying to find clothing in dressers that had been moved I starting thinking about the bedroom situation.  I figured that since we had everything out of basement bedroom that we should maybe just completely flip bedrooms.  The work was as good a 1/3 done already....  I ran then idea past my hubby and then got started.

We decided that the girls would both sleep upstairs.  The bedroom is smaller, but Rebecca has environmental allergies and I just wasn't comfortable with Olivia going downstairs being as she is only 2 years old.  So that meant that the bunk beds, the dresser and the chest of drawers all had to come upstairs.  That also meant that a smaller dresser needed to go downstairs along with setting up the "spare" queen mattress that we have been hanging on to for nearly 3 years. 

It took me nearly a week (along with getting some kind of bronchial illness) to get the smaller items (clothing, items from dressers, dresser drawers, toys, etc.) moved around and then my dad came over to help with the heavy lifting. 

Two and half weeks after we had water in the basement everyone was up off the floor and sleeping in a "new to them" sleeping arrangement.  Of course, I still had to put away all of the "little" things, but that is slowly getting taken care of.  Olivia is adapting well to her "big girl" bed, but she still thinks of it as a giant play ground for her to test out every evening.  (Let's just say that she hasn't been getting as much sleep as she normally does or needs.)

Just a few pictures of everyone in their new arrangements.  So far so good!

 The girls praying before they crawl into bed.

Rebecca in the top bunk.

Before all the stuffed animals...

 After the partial invasion of stuffed animals.... I have no idea how she sleeps with all that stuff in her bed....

Micah in the big bed all by himself in the basement.  We told him that he could stay awake a little bit longer and read now that he has a room to himself.  He was THRILLED! :)