Ok, so we’ve had one since we moved here, but it has been full of boxes and the toys had kind of gotten scattered around the room a bit since we’d moved in. Yesterday, I got the room set up into sections… my sewing/craft area, school and children’s craft area, toy area, and our gathering area. We don’t have furniture down there, except for a few children’s chairs, so the gathering area isn’t really there yet. We want to get some furniture to arrange around the fireplace to make it a nice place to just relax. Jeremy and I will be able to sit and relax while the kids are playing or whatever. We still need some more things to organize the toy area, but since we don’t have all the toys here yet (many are still in storage) than it is okay as it is at the moment. I also need a few more drawers for my sewing/craft area. I got a small three drawer thingy from my Grandma with a lot of her sewing and craft stuff in it. I got knitting needles, crochet needles, embroidery thread, and other things. I took a lot of it out and split it into groups and then put them into the drawers with corresponding stuff, but I still have a lot of yarn and some fabric that needs to find a place to be put away in. At the moment, it is all in bags sitting under my sewing table. I’m thinking some plastic little drawers that will still fit under the table, but it will be much neater than the bags.
Anyway, I’m just happy to have that room available for the kids to go down and play in now. It is such a nice big room, it will be good for them to go down to when it is raining or too hot.