Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 167 Location: gloucester city NJ
Tiny Room .. What Should I Do ? Posted: 06-25-07 11:18am
ok so my bedroom is tiny... let me
describe it to you... i have a big enough
room to fit my bed my night stand and my
armior ... with all that squished in there
there is only about 2 foot of walk way...
now we're going to be putting in shelving
on the one wall to put everything that's
in the armior on... then we're throwing
out the night stand... that leaves enough
room for a crib... do any of you have any
other ideas? like, is there anything else
i could do to maximize space or anything
else i could put on the walls?
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kaerbear
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Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 1557 Location: ,
Posted: 06-25-07 12:50pm
the only thing i could come up with is
storage under the bed. maybe drawers or
those fancy boxes or baskets or something.
we have a tiny house too and we are
having one heck of a time trying to figure
out where everything is going to go.
apparently even a low maintenence baby has
a lot of stuff!
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 06-25-07 13:02pm
My room is small too and the only thing we
managed to do was get storage for under
the bed and pack everything into cupboards
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Azure777
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 167 Location: gloucester city NJ
Posted: 06-25-07 13:12pm
i live in a trailer... i thought the room
was too small for me when we moved in...
now i have me and my fiance'... i don't
know what i'm going to do when it's me, my
fiance', and the little one... it's going
to be insane...
about the storage under the bed thing.. my
dad went out and bough those plastic under
the bed storage containers... turns out
that my bed frame is to short for them to
fit... thankfully my fiance's dad is
making us a new bed frame which means
soon we'll have enough room to fit those
containers...
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Idony
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Posted: 06-25-07 18:34pm
my only suggestion is dont use a crib
right away if you can get ahold of a
bassinet use that as long as you can, that
is what we are doing
my husband, daughter, and i all live in
out living room
we have a pull out couch 2 other sofas a
tv her dresser and her amoire (my husbands
and my dresser is in my mums room)
can you raise the frame up on cement
blocks or risers??
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Birch
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Posted: 06-25-07 18:59pm
I saw this topic on the main page, and
thought about those storage bags you buy
where you put winter clothes or whatever
in, and use your vacccuum cleaner to suck
the air out of them. You can use it for
extra linens, too.
Can you hang things from the ceiling?
Drape some fabric across the corners like
a canopy and put some things there.
I've got these fake tupperware like
containers from the dollar store and i
keep all kinds of documents, supplies,
etc. in those. They stack nice.
I know someone who used the top shelf of
their dresser as a baby bassinet-close it
during the day!
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vanessalouanne
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Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 2269 Location: ,
Posted: 06-25-07 21:29pm
shelves?
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Azure777
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 167 Location: gloucester city NJ
Posted: 06-25-07 22:40pm
me and my fiance' were thinking about
those vacuum storage bags but then thoguh
about the fact that what we'll be putting
under the bed is mainly books shoes and
things of that nature, no sheets or
blankets... we tend to keep our linens in
the laundry room (yeah i know... whats
with a laundry room in a trailor, i guess
it was just an extra, dunno) but about the
hanging things from the ceiling part...
well i would love to but i'm putting my
paintings up on the ceiling because the
wall where they used to reside is the one
we're using for all the shelves for our
clothes.
we're going to have a footboard shelf for
the tv and there will be a whole bunch of
extra room on it, so i was starting to
think maybe about making that extra space
a changing table. but there is one problem
with that, my fiance' seems to think that
we're just going to use the bed to change
him. does he not get that i'm not washing
the sheets everyday because some how the
baby managed to pee on them or we some how
got a soiled diaper opened upside down on
them?
i'm starting to think about a bassinet,
but once the baby is born it's a 6 month
wait untill we get our own trailor, i
think i should just stick with a crib so i
don't have to buy one when we move, or
risk having to buy one before we move.
sorry guys... i'm too picky and there are
too many complications, i know... sorry
again
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Bridget
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Posted: 06-26-07 06:37am
i'm with your fiance, use the bed to
change the baby. put a towel down or
something, a changing table is not a
necessity.
my suggestion is to go through all your
stuff and get rid of all the junk. there
must be some books and clothes and shoes
and other stuff that you're just hanging
on to but don't actually use anymore.
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kaerbear
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Joined: 10 Apr 2007 Posts: 1557 Location: ,
Posted: 06-26-07 10:44am
i saw those changing pad things at wal
mart with the sides that go up so the baby
can't roll around. i think they are
supposed to be used on a change table but
they could easily be put on any surface
and they have removable covers that can be
washed.
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Azure777
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Apr 2007 Posts: 167 Location: gloucester city NJ
Posted: 06-26-07 12:27pm
we actually went through all of our stuff
last week and gave alot to goodwill. but
my books, well i can't give those up, they
all have memories and totaling them all up
i probably have a about 2000 dollars
worth... and no they aren't those
teenybopper books they're old antiques and
collectibles.
and thinking about it for the changing
station idea, maybe my parents wouldn't
mind giving up the counter between our
bathroom sinks for a changing pad, all
that's sitting there now is a soap dish
(that never has soap in it lol) and the
toothbrushes. worse comes to worse i'll
just use the bed lol.
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