At last! A bunk bed

 

Anyone who's been around Beatrice in the past year has heard her talk about "when I get a bunk bed."  Almost every day since she turned three, she's been reminding herself and everyone else that she was going to get a bunk bed when she turned four*.  She even visited her bed-to-be every time we went to IKEA.

So this weekend we got her a bunk bed, a little in advance of her fourth birthday.

"I can see my whole room from here!"

For almost as long as she's wanted a bunk bed, Beatrice has also wanted "cloud bedding" to go with it.  This was something of her own invention; Beatrice assured me that a bed with "cloud bedding" would be "the most beautiful bed in the world."

So I found Beatrice some cloud sheets (which was surprisingly difficult to do) and paired them with a lot of pale blue and white accents.

Then I bought Arthur some pale green and brown "woodland" bedding so that the upper bunk represents the sky and the lower bunk, the forest floor.

During this little mini-renovation we also deep-cleaned the room, retouched the paint from where dirty fingers had touched it over the past two years, added new hardware to the built-in cabinets, hung new art, and created a little work station in the place where the crib had been.  (Thank you to Amy who watched our kids while we set up their new room!)

We also installed the awesome modern art "kelp" sculpture we got from Mina.

Now it really seems less like a baby's nursery and more like a "big kids" room.

* B thinks everyone gets a bunk bed once they turned four.  At one point she asked me how old my friend Amelia was.  "She's thirty," I said. "Oh, so she has a bunk bed?" Beatrice replied.