David built this sturdy, double-sided bookcase for our daughter. For the past two years it’s been in our living room overflowing with books (the following photo might as well be the “before” shot from 2009 back when we had only that many books).
After boxing up and putting away many of our beloved board books, we moved it upstairs to our daughter’s new bedroom.
Here’s the shot from before we started the transformation from spare bedroom/office/junk closet to big girl bedroom:
Wow, does it look less cluttered now, though we have more work to do:
Remember this video of our daughter reciting her version of Eric Carle’s classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, from last week?
She’s reading in front of the bookcase in her new room!
One side of the bookcase has our before bedtime books and some picture book fiction,
the other side contains (mostly) a nonfiction collection:
I’m in the process of framing art from beloved children’s books to hang next to the bookcase, but in the meantime our daughter asked us to hang pictures from two of last years family calenders (one with pictures of her and the other featuring Eric Carle illustrations).
All that’s missing is a comfy cushion to snuggle up on and I have plans for that.
In our last apartment I created a ‘cozey book corner’ in Jane’s room by putting a huge dog bed in the floor next to her book bin. My husband thought I was nuts, but Jane loved it. We always end up reading books on the floor anyway–why not sit on a dog bed with a bunch of pillows?!