The back room

Our back room has always been a bit of a play space for the kids. But it wasn't too inviting as a playroom with the stamped concrete floors and chaotic mess that was always being made. So changes had to be made... first was the tiling.


Now, it wasn't always quite this messy - we were in the middle of moving everything out here.







So we spent three days on our hands and knees, breaking our backs laying tiles, but the result was definitely worth it.



The back room is huge, which is useful for lots of things, but not for organising and keeping things together. We decided quite early on that we would divide it into two rooms, and call one of those our fourth bedroom. Then we decided not to do it, and then we decided we really should. Then we got a real estate agent in to help us decide once and for all, and he said either way had it's positives and negatives. In the end we decided to build the dividing wall.

Michael sheeted over the exposed bricks and then we built the frame for the dividing wall.







The frame went up and we sheeted the walls. Lex got the ever-so-fun job of painting the walls... which isn't quite finished yet. She just can't bring herself to buy more paint, as that would mean she'd have to apply it.