Musical Bedrooms

  You have to know I LOVE my pink house.  But...it is snug with our family of six.  1200 square feet, 2 official bedrooms, an additional basement room which tries to sneak in as a bedroom, and 1 bathroom.  Yes, 1.  4 daughters, one small bathroom.  It is funny to me how for some this could never do.  Yet just a few years ago that was the norm.  That is why many of us who live in older homes (ours is 1916) have a single bathroom.  Families certainly weren't smaller then.
 I have been tempted to "buy up".  But truthfully I would rather make this work.  I replicate an era I missed in so many ways, what is one more?
 However you label it "Vintage" lifestyle or living "Sustainably" we are going to make this pink house fit.  So I am constantly rearranging, hoping to discover more square footage.  This is one of those times.

  Before Dotty was born I decided Mav and I would move into our oldest daughter's basement room, she would move into the room shared by Pearl and Grace, which is the smallest- and they would move into the room left vacant by Mav and I.  We did that.  Now after several months and a new baby, I decided to switch it all up again.  Mav and I are going back to our original bedroom- the one with the wallpaper I love that he once hung for me.  Here are some work in progress photos.  I hope to share the finished ones soon.   We did take a break to day and get out in the sunshine as you can see by a couple photos.  Doesn't Grace have wonderful style?