My husband and I are buying our first home! We move in just a few short weeks, and I have been just a little panicky about moving all our stuff and figuring out where I want things to go at the new place. Of course half the fun of buying a new home or moving into a new place is getting to decorate it and make it your own. Our current house has a play room and we aren't really planning on having a play room at the new home, except for moving some of our son's BIG toys like a basketball hoop and train table to the rec room in the basement. So, I have been trying to figure out how to fit all of my son's toys in to his new room which is about the same size as his old room. I want him to have plenty of floor space. So I was thinking about how I could use under the bed storage and I remembered a chest of drawers that Matt and I inherited when we got married. Matt and and his dad built the chest of drawers when Matt was kid. It barely survived all of his family's moves when his dad was in the navy and our family's numerous moves. This last move finally did it in and the unit that held the drawers fell apart.
The drawers are just narrow enough in height that they fit perfectly under our son's bed! SO I decided to re-purpose them a bit. I cleaned them up and added a fresh new coat of white paint.
Then I added a strip of chalkboard paint and labeled the drawers with chalk!
They look perfect in our son's current room and I know they are going to go perfect in his new room too!
