Over the course of the last couple of weeks, we have done some work to reconfigure our space so that the coming little one can actually have some of her own things fit in our space challenged apartment. We've made a couple of minor changes, but nothing major - the largest item we added was a filing cabinet. Mostly we repositioned, reconfigured and added bins to hold stuff that would work with our existing furniture.
Here you can see that we've added Ikea cloth covered storage boxes to the top of our "Billy" bookcase. The boxes fit perfectly. You can also see that Sarah made a special low area for some story books and for some toys so that they would be more at little Petunia's level. If you look closely to the lower left corner, you can see someone's belly and Petunia's current home!
Here's a lower view of the bookcase so you can see a bit closer up how the books and toys are arranged. There's now even a nifty little basket in the right cubbyhole to hold all of my Wii games and accessories. Yay! Finally, no more messy wires and boxes everywhere!
In the part of our bookshelf with doors, we've now moved my camera equipment and opened up a storage unit for the baby's creams, diapers and other necessaries. It's the one on the lower left.
Here you can see some storage bins above the bookshelf that contain many of Petunia's clothes for as she grows. We've got most of the Newborn and 0-3 month clothes in our drawers, but because so many of our family members have been so generous, we have lots of clothes for as the baby grows. We've put these items and other 'soft goods' for the baby up here.
Here you see one view of how we've moved our bookshelf/divider in our little office/desk space. We've moved he shelf over towards the wall (it was centered between the desks before) in order to make room for the filing cabinet, which you see the side of here (with the printer on it). We've also cleared some space on the shelf for some additional storage we're going to get for baby related things.
Here's the reverse angle where you can see the actual file cabinet that we got. This helps us a lot because we now have actual storage space for our files which were previously taking up space on our bookshelves, desks, and under our desks. The bottom drawer is joint stuff, the middle drawer is mine and the top one is Sam's!
You can also see the small low shelf along the wall between our desks that is waiting for appropriate storage. We built this medium height shelf out of two low Ikea shelves by screwing them together. Thank's SAM and family for the power tools!
Finally, here you can see the changing area that we've set aside. We've got a changing pad all set up for when the baby needs her diapers changed. On top of it is the little muslins for mopping up accidents and spills. There is room on the side reserved for a basket that we'll be getting to hold the diapers, creams, etc that we're going to need for this very important space.
To the left is her 'go bag' which is full of all the things we're bringing to the hospital.
This here is an update I just added to the post. It's a photo of a shelf system we built above our microwave out of two Ikea end tables to store the baby's kitchen essentials - bottle sterilizers, warmers, bottles, etc.
Anyways, that brings you mostly up to date on the updates to our house. Stay tuned until next time when we'll have more updated belly pics and a 4-D Ultrasound!
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