Playroom For Our Girls

The girls, along with mom and dad, are pretty excited about how the play room in our new home turned out. The walls are painted gray with a pink accent area above the window and above the cut out on the opposite wall. The piece of art has each of the girls names, nicknames, and birth dates on it.

What are those seats, you ask? Those are auditorium seats that we found at On The Corner Resale on 15th Street in Tulsa. They were rescued from Wilson Middle School before it was torn down. Are they bolted to the floor, you ask? Why yes, yes they are. Was that an easy process, you ask? No, not really. But, it was worth it! A special thanks to our good friends, the Hood's, for helping us install them.

These seats actually started our trend to put something vintage in every room of our house. Thanks to months of construction on the BA Expressway, I drove past these seats for a few weeks before mentioning them to Greg. I thought it might be a hard sell trying to convince him to actually bolt something to the floor inside our house. I should have know - he loved the idea. We originally planned to purchase 3 seats for our 3 girls, then we upped it to 5 for each member of our family, then we settled on 6 so that the girls and their friends would all have a seat to enjoy. The girls like to read books there now, but we envision a media/movie room when the girls get a little bigger.

The distressed cabinet to the left of the chairs (seen in the first picture) was made to look old, but it's not. We bought it last Spring at Hobby Lobby. It's filled with paper, coloring books, crayons, etc. The dresser to the right of the seats (also seen in the first picture) was made by my dad when he was in college. It was in my room as a child and it was painted white and purple. At our old house it was in our dining room and painted red and white. Now it's in the girls playroom and it's painted gray and white with pink glass flower shaped knobs. Come to think of it, this piece came way before the chairs so it was our first real vintage piece. (wink, wink at my dad)

On the other side of the room is a black armoire that's currently holding some electronics on the top (that the kids can't get to) and play clothes and kids DVDs on the bottom. There is a bookshelf loaded with books just behind the armoire. A special thanks to our good friends, the Chesser's, for giving the girls this bookshelf.

And last, but not least, my secret and well hidden girly side, purchased these white ruffle tulle curtains. Everyone that has seen them has been shocked that I actually bought these, but I thought that the room needed something soft to offset the metal chairs, gray dresser and walls, and black furniture. Don't tell anyone, but I love these curtains!