As we exited the highway and pulled into the parking lot we both had that Choir Singing White Light Glowing moment. This IKEA was HUGE! We are no newcomers to IKEA so don't blow this off to inexperience. The Schaumberg, IL IKEA is really larger than most, which made it worth the drive even more!
You may remember from this post that this trip was entirely dedicated to creating an organized play / art area for my daughter in the sun room. Not this.
So the first step was to find a rug to define the space and we found this...
It is the perfect size for the space, works well with the indoor / outdoor feel of a sun room and was a great price so no fear of art projects ruining it. And it kinda looks likes grass, which I like :) Then we found this easel for less then $15. Yup, you read that right...$15! Moms you just gotta go to IKEA!
Now you are probably all wondering where the table is. Me too! My Stepmom bought us a beautiful table - which we actually found down the road at Toys-R-Us rather than IKEA - but when I took it out of the box it was broken :( But Toys-R-Us to the rescue, they already have a replacement in the mail on it's way to me. So when it arrives it will look something like this and live on that big empty spot on the green carpet.
No play area would be complete without storage. And storage we found! This shelf unit was $39, what, $39! (It needed repeating)...
It holds all of Bean's toys with room to spare. And it is the perfect spot for my Grandmother's lamp - that is until little hands are tall enough to reach up there and grab it.
There are a couple more storage projects in the works but you are just going to have to be patient for those. I can't reveal all my secrets in one post. (Translation: there have been a couple of technical difficulties with other projects and I don't want to wait around until they are figured out.) So there will be more to come, including the reveal of the above mentioned table and the grand tour of the entire room. Can't wait to see it myself!
