Room by Room, pt 2

Continuing our tour through our new house, today we're looking at:

 

TRIPLE FEATURE -- Ella's Room / Julia's Room / Green Room !!!!

My attention span is way too short to go through one room at a time.  And besides, bedrooms are kinda boring.  4 walls, a door and a closet.  But, here we go:

The Green Room wasn't just named so because it was our staging room while working on our master bedroom.  It's also really green.  With, of course, the blue, yellow and red stripes down at the bottom.  The room makes me feel like I'm inside a Crayola box.  It's easily the biggest of the other three bedrooms, but has the most glaring downsides, which are the color, the very small closet (only about 4 feet wide), and the world's worst curtains.  Seriously, they're yellow, barely opaque at all, and remind me of making curtains out of a low quality used Jr. Jazz jersey.  But other than that, the room is great!  The room is currently empty, because we really don't need it right now.  Someday we'll either have some guests to make use of it, or perhaps another kid.  We don't have any furniture to go in there, so for now it stays empty.

 

Julia's room is the most boring of the rooms.  White walls, regular closet and non-hideous curtains.  She was very excited about the pink light switch cover, though, which was her main reasoning for picking the room.  With both girls we haven't worried about the quality or color of the paint on the walls because I don't think we'll ever be seeing it much.  Julia has already done a pretty good job of getting her artwork up on the walls.  I'm sure Ella won't be far behind.  As we now have a basement where girls can play and toys can be messy, we're trying to strike a balance between toys and messes in their rooms vs the basement.  Evidently Julia still prefers her room for cutting pieces of paper into confetti.  The girls also got to pick rugs out for their bedrooms.  Julia very specifically wanted something pink and fuzzy.  We went to 5 or 6 stores before finding this one, which didn't quite put her into over-the-top euphoria, but at least made her happy.  (She wanted an oval rug.)

 

Ella's room is very much like Julia's.  It's square, same closet, blue and grey walls (very masculine) and ok-sized, but not huge.  It came with a move-in surprise, however: the hanging chair!  This has been a big hit with both the girls from the very beginning.  We weren't expecting it to come with the house, but it did, and we're ok with that.  I've been very diligent about reminding everyone that it is a chair, not a swing, even to the point of correcting people if they don't call it a chair.  (They're all probably getting tired of that.)  Amazingly, Julia hasn't thrown any fits over the fact that the chair is in Ella's room and not hers.  She hasn't demanded her own chair, either.  All I can think of is that she considers the chair and the pink light switch cover a fair trade.  No complaints from her means no complaints from me.

 

Best thing: The swing chair.

 

Worst thing: The terrible yellow curtains.  But since those are so easily thrown away and replaced, I'll change my vote to the very small closet in the Green Room.  If anyone ever lives in there, they might complain about that, particularly if they're a teen-age girl.