Our New Playroom - Meredith Rines

For the past month or so we’ve been doing a lot of work around our home. We’ve been organizing closets, donating old clothes and household items to our local Rescue Mission, selling what we can on our local Facebook Swap Shops.

In the span of a week we sold a bedroom set that we used for storage (cue the piles of clothes everywhere). We sold a desk that J used while in school, but was now acting like a shelf. Then we sold clothes, books, lamps, and more. We didn’t make enough to pay for our new furniture, but it was enough to cover at least the new recliner (so I’ll count that as a win).

Our goal was simple – declutter the house and make it organized.

The whole process started over Labor Day when we went to our local furniture store just to see if we liked anything. Our past couch was falling apart. Literally. Metal bars had fallen out of the bottom of it and some pieces of wood had snapped in half. So it was time.

We ended up purchasing a new couch, recliner and dining room table. We had been saving for for months to be able to pay cash for our new furniture. It was such an amazing feeling to be able to pay cash for everything and then reimburse a portion of our sinking funds with what we sold.

What first started out as updating our family room, ended up creating a playroom for our little boy.

We turned our guest room into a place to play and house most of his toys. We moved most of his toys into his new room, moved a chair from his nursery so we would have a place to hang out and even hooked up my TV from college.