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Islands81 · 14/01/2019 23:13

Poor dd2 drew the short straw and has the tiniest box room in the world. We’ve been here 5 years and I’m currently in the process of binning/donating pretty much all the stuff she had that she never plays with (12 bin bags and counting!).

She refuses to sleep in her high up bed anymore because she once saw a spider (she’s being assessed for ASD and gets a bed in her bonnet about stuff) , so at her request I’ve now bought her a day bed, which has drawers and a pull out trundle underneath. So the big bed is going which is going to create a storage nightmare.

She still has a fuck ton of stuff she claims she can’t part with which is in my room at the moment. Toys, organised into big storage boxes, books, games, the biggest hamster cage in the world, sparkly bags and all that shit. Currently her clothes are not in her room and I can’t see that changing. Where the feck am I going to put all this stuff?

I’ve included a pic so you can see my problem. Please don’t judge the mess (it’s a work in progress!) or the hideous pink walls (she chose them a few years ago and they’re going).

Please share any box room storage miracles that you have!

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YourFly · 26/01/2019 21:16

As much as I love your blind, I would say it ia round the wrong way.
Your DD should get to see rhe nice bit of the blind, the other side should be facing out.

Give it another go.

Ive got to finish painting tomorrow.

Keep going Wine

Charlie97 · 26/01/2019 21:18

Oh, forgot to mention the eleventy billion cuddly toys too which are all her ‘favourites’ apparently . Already got rid of 3 bin bags full of the fuckers today!

That is just so funny!! Sorry @Islands81 GrinGrinGrin

Islands81 · 26/01/2019 21:34

@YourFly ah now see I’m confident that I got that right, as I was unsure so did a google image search of roller blinds and they’re all like mine is now.

Have you thought maybe yours are the wrong way around? Grin

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YourFly · 26/01/2019 21:37

Can you see the underneath of it?
I have always had mine like this.

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Islands81 · 26/01/2019 21:56

No cant see the underneath...the vast majority of google image results looked like this, so that’s what I went with. The nice bit of the blind is facing forward.

In other news, I have realised that I am missing a crucial bit of the stuva wardrobe, so back to ikea for me tomorrow. I’m quite excited, needed to go back anyway and will be nice to get some extra bits and bobs and the book racks.

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Islands81 · 26/01/2019 21:56

Oh sorry forgot pics

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Drogosnextwife · 26/01/2019 22:09

You don't have to try again to roll it the other way you have the blind the right way it should just go round the roller the other way. Just use the pulley to roll it right out so you can see the silver bit as if you are closing the bonds and just keep rolling and it will go the other way round.

Drogosnextwife · 26/01/2019 22:13

You might have to adjust the pulley bit (Sorry don't know what it's called) because there is a little stopper on them.

My living room and be room ones are the same as yours though OP, just my ds room that's the other way around.

SplishSplashSplosh · 26/01/2019 22:14

I agree. Blind is wrong way but I would put it depending on if your daughter is right handed or left.

I have always had the pull cord on right hand side because we are all right handed.

YourFly · 26/01/2019 22:22

Just change the fittings around, then turn the blind around.

Islands81 · 26/01/2019 22:35

I put the cord on that side because that will be the side her head is on her bed IYSWIM

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Capricornandproud · 26/01/2019 23:03

Bloody hell OP well done girl!!!

TrixieFranklin · 26/01/2019 23:16

This is my new fav thread! Can't wait to see the finished result!

Islands81 · 26/01/2019 23:20

The hamster has come to help me build the bed now Grin

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Mummy2one2016 · 26/01/2019 23:51

Well done OP, I can't wait to see the end result

Islands81 · 27/01/2019 00:30

We have a bed and part of a stuva! Dd has stayed up because she’s so excited, so she’s sleeping in her room tonight. That’s a win for me too because I don’t have to have snot chops in with me.

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sweetkitty · 27/01/2019 00:46

That’s starting to look really pretty once you get all her things back in.

I bought that high sleeper for DD2s room as it fitted along the back wall thought it would be ideal, turned out there was no space to actually build the thing!

Ive got the whole room planned out now all new furniture apart from the viv.

Before we had our extension built DD2 had the boxroom upstairs, it was the smallest room I have ever seen I reckon barely 6ft x 4ft wide. She had a cot then a toddler bed in it, you would probably get one single just about and a chest of drawers in it. The wall got taken down and the room more than doubled in size, DD1 claimed it, it’s the biggest room in the house. DD2 wanted to be downstairs.

sweetkitty · 27/01/2019 00:47

The narrow Stuva is on my list too

Islands81 · 27/01/2019 00:50

Yes I remember it being a challenge to build dd’s high sleeper! Glad to see the back of that bloody thing.

Very excited about being able to offload all dd’s —shite— treasures out of my room over the next couple of days.

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RandomMess · 27/01/2019 09:44

Another thing we did is rehang the door so it opened outwards! Meant you could have shelves on that wall.

ThinkOfAWittyNameLater · 27/01/2019 09:52

Wow! The room looks so much bigger. Well done with the blind - looks great.

I am seriously over invested in your DIY

CoddledAsAMommet · 27/01/2019 10:25

@eandh I've just shown the photo you posted to Dd2 (nearly 12) who loves it! Do you happen to remember the shade of grey you used please?

eandh · 27/01/2019 11:02

@coddledasamoment it’s dulux chic shadow

Thurmanmurman · 27/01/2019 11:14

For cuddly toys I bought a white plastic hanging shoe rack and spray painted it to match DDs room, it hangs over the back of the door and fits loads in.

sashh · 27/01/2019 11:33

I'd not buy a bed. Bet someone to build a platform just under the window that is wide enough for a single mattress.

Then fit storage underneath, it could be shelves, drawers or plastic tubs.

Something like this - but smaller

www.thespruce.com/thmb/XNwkbsvc0JDRbhZ5AxvatVop2q8=/700x467/filters:no_upscale()/Ikea-platform-bed-hack-via-smallspaces.about.com-571120385f9b588cc2caa1d8.jpg