sleeping arrangements

The bedrooms in our current home are pretty small.  Well, make that small and poorly designed.  So furniture arrangements have been tricky.  Because I value sleep so much, we determined that we needed to give the new baby her own room, which meant putting all 3 of our boys in 1 bedroom.   The logistics of this took us way too long to resolve.  We also wanted to get our gentleman acclimated well in advance of the baby's arrival - in hopes that he wouldn't associate the move with her at all.

It came down to 3 options - Sir O and the Captain in either a bunk bed, double bed, or trundle bed.  Because my family has a legacy of broken bones and serious injuries associated with bunk beds, that was always my last choice.  And nighttime bladder control has proved elusive for Sir O, so making someone share a bed with him seemed kind of mean.  That left us with a trundle bed. (ignore the dirty floor.  I could vacuum every single day, but I refuse to.)

We bought a standard twin bed frame off of the KSL classified ads and added furniture feet to give it enough height to fit a trundle underneath.  Then Mr Renn built the trundle based on this pattern, and we painted and trimmed it all out to make it match.  There's a slatted portion of the headboard that I'm hoping to upholster (sometime.... maybe).  And we painted Sir O's old black crib to match and \moved it in on the other side of the room.  So far everybody stays up a tad later, but otherwise it seems to be going over pretty well.  I love my kids having a real "bed" and not just a mattress on rails.  NOW I've got to get to work on a little girl nursery.  My ideas are gathering here.