School Room

We moved about a year ago to a house with more rooms.  On the main floor, there is a room that works great as a school room/guest room.  The kids do most of their quiet work independently in this room.  Any projects and work with me is done elsewhere (living room or kitchen normally).

We decided we wanted a Murphy bed with bookcases on either side for the room.  The bookcases would be used to store all of the school stuff, and the Murphy bed would make converting to a guest room easy.  We got the bed done in January, but it took until recently to get the bookcases done.  Now, the room is "done."  We are considering adding more storage on top of what we just built, but other projects are going to be completed first!  The additional storage will likely come in handy for the high school guides as well as bedding.

For desks, each of my kids has a Lifetime fold-in-half 2x4ft table.  The younger two have it on the second lowest setting, and the older two have it at the second tallest setting.  If we have company, these are easy to take out of the room!  And they are very handy when we have company over for dinner as additional seating.

To store their current school materials, each child has 1-2 plastic crates.   These fit file folders, so they can easily sort and contain their books.  They also have "magazine holders" to store big items, their guides, and binders.  When we take down the tables, these bins can go in the bottom of the cabinets.

The closet stores the craft supplies.  When company comes, some will get moved to the bottom cabinets or to the top shelf so guests have some storage.

We have used the room like this for two weeks, and it is working well.  We actually pulled the tables out this weekend, and it was easy to take down and put back up!  (That is also why it is so clean in these pictures - it was just after setting everything back up.)