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From a friend of mine who just purchased her first apartment:
Q. I also now have a tiny second bedroom that's about 8x10. We don't necessarily want to make it a all-the-time bedroom (no baby plans right now!), but want to have some kind of guest sleeping option. Murphy bed? Day bed? Fold-out couch?
I know, I already put up a video on this a couple of days ago, but I wanted to show you some photos, too...because I LOVE this room.
I honestly can't believe that it's the same space that I saw when we first moved in. I also can't believe how much we have going on in there, considering the entire space is about 8'x10' - and now it's a playroom, an office space, a music room and a guest bedroom (thanks to the addition of a pair of blackout curtains that I hung on the inside of the french doors, so that they aren't visible from the living room but can be used to darken the room in a pinch).
Alright, so here are a couple of "before" images:
Now THIS is the one I've been waiting to show you. When we first started looking for a new home, I knew that I wanted some kind of office space/playroom adjacent to the living area, so that the whole family can still hang out together when we're all doing different things. And the house we ended up in did have a (very) small bonus room, but it didn't open onto the living room, and felt stuffy and oddly proportioned, so it basically ended up becoming a receptacle room for all the stuff we didn't know what else to do with.
A trash dump, in other words.
Not ideal.
This is not my bathroom. (via OKL)
Last time I asked for ideas for what to do with our hallway bathroom - which was similarly darkish and un-pretty - you guys had the BEST suggestions. And I ended up implementing a bunch of them, and now that bathroom has been transformed from a room I wasn't especially excited to spend time in into my personal little Spa Heaven.
So: I need some help again.
