Home Live Design

A peek at the before pictures

The design process

Each year I dig a little deeper into creating a learning space that is beautiful and reflects the lives of the people that use it. This years design process stared with a design board.  Once I had all of the elements figured out I then placed all of my dreams and wishes into the the Design Workbook.  

Changes that needed to be done.

Color
The colors in the home living space where to visually stimulating.  It had to many bright primary colors which made the space chaotic in more ways then one.
 
Arrangement
The space was to tight with furniture.  The children could not move freely with in the space. Which caused conflict. 

Solution
*  Find smaller table for space.  Divide area into to different living        areas. (more like a great room would be)  Kitchen with family            area. 
*  I have missed match furniture throughout my classroom.  Find          another teacher that would be willing to trade so that we could        both have matching furniture.  Good thing is that most of the            teachers I work with like the colored furniture and I like the wood.
*  Find dishes in a softer color.

I was able to find furniture some from another teacher by trading and I found some wonderful finds at the school warehouse surplus. 

After setting it up we took a step back and all in all we liked the overall fill of it.  However we were still not happy with the blue and yellow cabinets behind the chairs and the blue chairs stood out as well.   So...
Have your ever dreamed about something that you are working on and woke up in the morning and knew exactly what you needed to do.  That is what happened, so on my way to work I took a detour to Wal-Mart and found contact paper and some brown fabric.

Now that is more like it!

Family area dress up cloths, armoire, chair and baby dolls.

Small kitchen table with two chairs and woven place mats.

Kitchen cabinet to hold dishes and cooking items.  Not shown in picture next to cabinet is wooden play house furniture. 

Blue chair is now covered in brown fabrics and the only tool I needed was a staple gun.

On to my next classroom re-design project.