Nesting With Grace

by Brooke Christen

Ikea hack toy cabinet DIY

Ikea Hack Toy Chest

We had these Ikea white cabinets with the plastic bins in the girls playroom in our old house. I know you have all seen them if you don’t own one yourself. The plastic always kind of bothered me, but I thought “relax Brooke, it’s a play room.” Now that we are in a smaller house we use the bins in the girls bedroom. They have a good size bedroom and there was plenty of room for toys. But now that it is all open the plastic bothered me even more. So I came up with a Ikea hack to create something more pleasing to the eye.
Ikea hack toy bin chest DIY

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All of his extra "treasures" get tucked away in his closet in bins. His books, that look neatly stored in old locker baskets, as well as footballs and other balls in neat containers.

Favorite Boys Bedroom with My Sweet Savannah

Melaine from My Sweet Savannah is an experienced, long time blogger that I love to follow and get inspired from. Her sons room is so timeless and full of the best ideas, I had to share it with all of you. I featured it on my section Kids Spaces for Everything Home Magazine. I drilled Melaine with questions on her 13 year old sons bedroom.
Favorite Boys Bedroom Ideas

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Boys room kids space

Kids Space- Boys Collected Bedroom

My sister and I were born in the same year, can you believe my poor Mom?! For about three weeks we are the same age, Irish Twins we are. We didn’t always get a long growing up, now we are best friends, I am pretty blessed by her. When I was in Utah in December she wanted to work on her son’s bedroom and move him to his own bedroom. He is a little stud who is 11 years old. He needed his own space where he didn’t have his little brothers going through his things. So before his Birthday we got to work, my sister actually did the manual labor and I went shopping and put it all together to make his bedroom his own.
Boys room kids space

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How you could be making your home look CHEAP- How to solve it

DIY Dream Catchers

I did a Birthday party at our home for our 8 year old Ella. I had looked into going somewhere, because 10 little girls in a 1200 square foot house seemed a bit tight. Then I thought I should not let the size of our home hold us back from enjoying it and doing what she wanted to do. Ella wanted to have a “late night”. So we invited  some friends over and made dream catchers, I fed them french toast for dinner with fruit and sausage, we watched the movie Pan (which is similar to Peter Pan, we all loved it) then played our favorite birthday game “who knows Ella best” you can find it HERE and did a little dancing. We topped the night off with brownies and mint ice-cream as per the birthday girls request. The dream catchers were the highlight of the night, a big hit. This is how we made them-
DIY dream catcher tutorial

 

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When we relocated back to Connecticut from California, Pinterest was just taking off. I had started collecting photos of black rooms, houses, everything in black on my “Black” Pinterest board. I think the idea of black walls sort of anchored the look and feel I was going for in my son’s room. I can’t say that Patrick was too thrilled at first. It took some getting used to. But the thing about black walls, you really don’t want to have to back and paint over it with white. Kid spaces always have a lot of stuff. Collections, awards and trophies, books. In our California house his room had a built in for everything. I knew we would not have time to have built-ins made before moving so I started collecting crates to create a wall of storage. Also something I saw on Pinterest. The crates and the Ikea locker cabinet below hold everything from his former bedroom. Once the crates were in place, it took Patrick and me about 20 minutes to unpack his “treasures” and find the perfect place for everything. A huge binder of magazine pages of ideas and then Pinterest inspired this space. I like a room to look collected over time rather than one that looks like it was assembled from a catalog. I never stick with one color combination as I find it is too limiting. Patrick’s room as well as the rest of the house is a collection of our favorite things. Pieces from flea markets and Ikea to Knoll tables and chairs. I am constantly moving things from one room to another and when you’ve moved as many times as we have, from one house to another. I actually love the idea of moving and finding new places for our “things.” It’s funny; I never thought I would say Ikea was the main source for an entire room. But as I look around Patrick’s room, that’s exactly the case. Ikea, flea markets and thrift stores and a Pendleton blanket are the main attractions in this room. Detail of each photo sent separately.

Kids Space with Most Lovely Things

This bedroom that Annie designed for her son has been featured on HGTV and Design Sponge for the creative crate wall that Annie created. I knew that all of you would love the uniqueness of it too, so I asked her if I could feature it on my blog. Trust me, you will love every detail of this room and her entire home.

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Birthday traditions and crepe recipe

Favorite Birthday Traditions and Crepes

Our oldest daughter just turned 8! The day before her birthday she kept asking “what time is it?” I would ask why are you so worried about the time? She said “because I want it to be time for bed so I can wake up and be 8!” She hardly said two words about what gift she wanted, she just wanted to be 8. It was so cute. I wanted to make the day extra special since she was so excited. My husband was out of town for work, and we had already went to her school and took her lunch, read a couple of books to her class and they also did an extra recess instead of allowing treats, I LOVE this idea. So for her birthday she requested crepes for breakfast and brownies and ice-cream instead of cake. I always ask them what they want for their meals and dessert.
birthday traditions 6

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