With another long weekend (for us at least) under our belts - our plans of taking Alexis to the T.O. Zoo this weekend were squashed.  Too hot for us, so then we thought Storybook Gardens, but again it was too hot to go.  So since we couldn't do any fun outdoorsy trips - we figured now is a good time to take on Alexis' playroom.

I don't have many pictures of this room - besides the rockin' carpet! But its a pretty decent size room which connects to the laundry/storage room and a smaller room that will be Derek's "man room" to do whatever he pleases in.

We already had the paint colour - which is a fresh minty green. I wanted something that was fresh and fun, and while choosing the other colours for the house I came across a book of paint chips specifically with "kid"  inspired colours and I loved this green colour.

The room, as I said is a generous size, however it has a small window that doesn't let in a lot of light, and the light fixture in the room is well .... hideious like the rest of them. So for now, Derek and I have painted the room. Tomorrow Derek plans to rip out the exisiting carpet (don't worry for the girls who said they wanted to sport it in their places - I am making you welcome mats! haha I kid I kid) and baseboards. Since under the carpet is just concrete, I think the consensus is to paint it (what colour I haven't figured out yet) and then we have a large taupe carpet that use to be in Alexis nursery at the old house that we were planning on using down there.

I'm excited to get this lower part of the basement up and running so that we for one can get stuff that is still in boxes (toys and stuff for her playroom) put away finally, and two - a place for all of the other toys that seem to take over our living room and family room on a daily basis a home.

We have an amazing book shelf that Derek's dad made for Lexi before she was born - I painted a soft pink, so it goes nicely with the light green, and I'm excited to get all her books up there!

                             

And since I was so excited to get this room going - I ran to Fabricland while Lexi was napping to find the perfect fabric to make a curtain (yes folks, I will be attempting to make my own curtain! Hope it doesn't end in an epic fail! haha).  I found this adorable multi-coloured fabric that ties all the pinks and green's together, and it was a whopping $4 and change.

So obviously I will post more pictures as we go along, but for now this is our project since wrapping up the main bathroom.  Hope everyone had a great weekend!