July/August 2011 setapartgirl ISSUE

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is spacious and well-lit. There are six huge windows surrounding the room, letting in an ample amount of sun and visions of God’s beautiful creation. There is plenty of room to dance and sing, to laugh and play. It’s right off the kitchen, so I can get housework done and monitor the children’s activities at the same time. This is my most challenging room in the house to keep clean, because the kids use it all day, every day. We paint, cut, color, glue, and do play dough in this room so it doesn’t always stay immaculate. But with a little focus and effort, and many carefully labeled bins and baskets, we’ve more or less found a place for everything. To hide some ugly electric boxes on one wall, I covered inexpensive canvas with cute material and created an “art display” wall for

WITH A LITTLE FOCUS & EFFORT my children’s daily masterpieces. To cut down on craft-supply clutter, I filled two white bookshelves with coordinating baskets and storage bins, each one with a chalk-board label announcing its contents. I found two desks with “character” at a thrift-store for about $10 each, painted them white and switched out the hardware for fun

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