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sure it would be cheaper and easier, but you would be able to reuse this fabric version next year and not have to get the tape-sticky off your window. also, if you have nasty metal venetian blinds like mine and all california rentals seem to have, this covers them up well.

Taking advantage of our status as homeschoolers and going to all the attractions that are suddenly vacant of local schoolkids but are still open for "bumper" tourist season.
Also, kids photo in pumpkin patch wearing pumpkin orange clothes.

sorry, the neighborhoods always look very nice and cozy. Just finally decided that the NW is not the place for me.

the answer for us was one giant bed until each kids asked for their own bed, around 4 or 5 years old. Now they come sleep with us occasional mornings, but it was a totally natural transition. This is only OK if you are down with co-sleeping, I am not advocating for it as general principle but it worked well for us. I have recently heard co-sleeping described as a "nightly slumber party with your favorite people"

We only need privacy for one thing, and that one thing is usually more fun outside the bedroom anyhow :P

sorry, but some of these would have caused me lasting psychological scars! Let your kids pick out the art for themselves.

our 2 kids share a room, and although they are small, they still are both clotheshorses who have defined ideas about what to wear. Inside their fairly standard small closet (18"x36") we put four sets of 1x8 boards on all three walls in a u-shape, with a hanging rod beneath and baskets for socks on the floor. put a chair underneath for them to climb and get the clothes they want and a clamp-on shop light so they can see.
This is SO much easier to keep organized (for me) and to use (for the kids) than the typical hanging rod-big bin of sloppy clothes or separate bureau for the kid clothes. and it cost around $20.

I will confess now to taking my Italian renaissance fresco textbook to the paint store when choosing colors for my new house (in a Mediterranean climate zone). I actually have an apple green kitchen, salmon living room, Naples yellow dining room and lavender bedroom :)

I never understand this phenomenon of dirty windows everywhere new I move, I always clean them before I leave- helps sell a house, and when renting, makes the landlord think it's cleaner on move-out :)

gold and white dishes are very pretty, but in my opinion you have to be stupid to pay almost $500 for a place setting, no matter how much money you make.

We have a 4 and 6 year old, one girl, one boy, and we use the ikea Kura bed as well- they both sleep on the bottom bunk, the beds are pushed together in a corner so they overlap in an "L" formation. We have twin size futons as mattresses in there. It's a little kid cave that they both requested, totally not my idea. The kids sleep with their heads together, and sometimes end up snuggled together, sometimes just holding hands, sometimes rolled out onto the floor!
They are very active sleepers, and very close to each other, so this gives the best option for thrashing/rolling around space or closeness.
They use the top of the bed for a reading lounge.