I had a thought the other day...honest, I did! I have thought about putting in one continuous shelf around the top of our walls in our living/dining room space. It would be higher up than what you would want for books that get daily use....but.....it could house the reference books and other "library" type books and I could reclaim my other book case for school books and stuff. Our house looks like a one-room school house on the outside and the inside looks rustic, so I think the book shelf where molding would be is a neat idea. I could even install roll-up window shades on the underside for pull-down charts and maps. Wow! I'm excited! Wonder if any of those ideas would work for your small space, too?
I did this on one wall. It works wonderfully. Mine houses things my dd has to ask for, magnetix, legos, city blocks...things I need to keep an eye on so there's not too much pulled out. Works great!
Shoe organizers I'm just getting started so I've been searching for places to store stuff as well. I started using our closest in the office and bought those cloth (over the door) shoe organizers. I use all the small pockets for markers, pens, art supplies, and then the bottom has bigger pockets for notebook paper etc. It's really helped keep everything out of the way but very organized and kept together.
The basement sounds like a good idea. I wish I had one. You could maybe paint the walls yellow and do mural or something. Have fun with it, it is a school room.
Wanna know what I wish? I wish someone from HGTV would come to my house and make my family room into a school room. That would be so much easier and it would look soooo nice. For the last 5 days I have been trying to figure out how I am going to fix the room up. The room just seems awkward to me...I have a treadmill, piano, bench thingy with a back so you can hang coats on it, a tv, a sectional and a loveseat. The room is super crowded right now. If I sell the tv (which doesn't work anyways) and the loveseat that will free up alot of room. The tv is my DH's and if I sell it I think he will kill me....however if he wants it I think it should go in his "man cave". I guess I just need to clean out the room of all the extra stuff and then I want to paint a chalkboard on the bottom 1/3 of 1 of one wall so the younger kids have something to draw on while the older kids are working.
Minthia I do too! they need a redo your homeschool show! HOw cool it would be to have the dream homeschool room and curric that doesnt matter the cost!
We have an office/schoolroom, and I've been using an old dresser for storage. It's antique looking and fits in well with our homeschool "decor." Hannah uses one drawer for basic art supplies, another for crafts supplies like buttons, glue, scissors, etc., another for play dough/clay and we have a drawer for all sorts of papers as well. It's been great for us so far.
I got rid of my TV and tv unit and put it in our shed. Either just go put it in his man cave or in the garage or in a closet. It doesn't work? Get rid of it. My treadmill is in my bedroom LOL! Doesn't he need a loveseat in his man cave too?
I think we should all petition HGTV to see if they will do a show on creating a homeschooling room and providing curriculum of the persons choice! That would be AWESOME!
