Here are some photos of the new furniture.
Wilder's new bed and old dresser, which used to be a changing table:
My paternal grandmother's dresser, saving a space for the desk Wilder did not receive:
Elba's new desk and old dresser:
Elba's new bed:
Gemma's new bed:
Gemma's new desk and new dresser:
Answering the obvious question, the attic, where we keep most of the toys:
The kids chose their new bedroom paint colors from color cards I brought home the day we learned our furniture delivery date. They wanted all their walls to be the darkest shade that I, the mean Mommy, painted only on the walls behind their beds. Yes, Elba and Wilder did choose the same shade of blue.
When we moved in, every room in the house was painted with the paint you see in the attic -- a flat, right-out-of-the-can off-white paint from Big Box store. It absorbs oils and dirt from the hands of people as they run past, whether they have contact with the walls or not.
I've painted the main-floor bathroom (see: dirty paint) and the laundry/back entry (see: exceedingly dirty paint) but that's it so far.
It sort of sucks that the kids now have the prettiest walls in the whole house.
In case it wasn't obvious, I bought the same furniture for all three kids -- three new desks with hutches, three new bedside tables, three new beds (for the last three years, the kids have slept on box spring/mattress combos held up by metal frames with hidden wheels designed to damage a person's toes), and a single dresser for Gemma's room.
I wanted to sing hallelujah yesterday morning when the new furniture arrived and I discovered that the finish I chose matched the nursery dressers in Wilder and Elba's rooms after all.
