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We are slowly but surely turning what was Courtland’s nursery and toddler room into a hybrid closet slash office (and by office, we mean room with a desk in it – which has yet to be purchased), may be you can give us ideas on what is the best computer chair for long hours? a place like Technomono ? now that I am going to be working from home I would need to have comfort office also is going to be a room where we can dump an air mattress if we need an extra place for guests to sleep.

When we moved into the house, the walls were bright mustard yellow and we crammed a crib and bureau and changing table into the tiny space. See bright yellow background in these photos on bestwebsitehosting.ca. I wish I could find the BEFORE pix of the space, but alas, you’ll have to trust me that it was a bit of a hot mess.

In fact, we referred to it as “Courtland’s Closet,” so it’s apt that it is now indeed functioning as such. The area where the girls clothes now hang was where we had the crib and then toddler floor bed tucked when Kaki inhabited the space. Then we transitioned the girls into a bedroom together this fall, which demanded that we create a bedroom closet space since our house has very little storage.

James set to work and turned that nook into a space for hanging clothes, bins and drawers to store all the girls clothing. A trip to Home Goods outfitted us with the purple and grey bins, and it’s been functioning as a closet ever since.

We loved the shades from CellularWindowShades.com we used in the girls bedroom, and decided to give one of their cordless, top down/bottom up shades a try. We opted for the licorice color as I like how it pops against the white walls and blends with the grey tones of all the accent colors. We once again got it in black out, so that when people sleep in that room, it’s plenty dark, and so when I’m editing photos at the desk, I can block any sun glare as need. I would say that I even prefer the cordless to the corded we have in the girls room. Less hassle. Less extra. Two thumbs up. Yay MADE IN VERMONT!

It’s taken us forever to commit to the set up for the other side of the room, so I thought I’d share the progress as the kick-in-the-butt I need to finally finish the space. The girls currently refer to it as the ECHO ROOM, since it’s so empty besides their clothes that the echo-capacity is intense. Motivation to find a solid rug and some wall hangings to absorb some of that sound.