The Finished Playroom.

I have been so extremely excited for this project since I first dreamed it up a few months ago.  I was so tired of having their bedrooms double as play areas--they're just too small!  And since we are several years away from finishing our basement, I thought the only alternative was to shrink our upstairs theater just a bit and create a playroom in half of the room.  My goal was to be done by Christmas, so we worked like crazy to build the shelves and paint, and get the right baskets, and make the wall hangings, and everything!

Saturday we plunged into the final phase of development and finished it up before we left to our Johnson Family Christmas party that afternoon.

Then last night after church I put all of the toys lovingly in the baskets and brought the boys and Maylie in to see the surprise.

I'll never forget the looks on their faces as they wandered around stupefied.  They immediately gravitated to the chalkboard table and after spending a few minutes experimenting there, they started finding all of their toys in their new homes and pulling them out.  It was dinnertime and I suggested they finish playing after dinner, but none of them wanted dinner.  Easton said he wanted to stay up there forever and play forever.

We finally convinced them to come downstairs for our dinner, and they have being playing upstairs ever since.

I am so so so so happy with how everything turned out and am SO grateful my children finally have a dedicated, darling place to play!

{P.S. Ignore the horrible low-lighting in these pictures.  I wanted to hurry and just snap some with my camera before the littles came in and it was already dark...but even despite the pictures, you can still get a feel for the whole coziness and charmingness of this special little loft.}