![]() Here’s my advice if you’re considering a multifunctional room. If they do traipse off the real school next year, I hope to be using the big green table as a workspace for reading and writing and bird watching. If we didn’t homeschool, does this room still fit within our lifestyle? (Homeschool post forthcoming someday but my heart can only take so much ) Well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see to know for sure but I can tell you this- I wouldn’t trade anything for the time I’ve spent in this room with my girls. But at this point, if I had it to do over, I wouldn’t change a thing. Maybe the perfect, multifunctional room is only so in theory. Maybe we would have been better served by a traditional dining room. And I began to wonder if creating a room like this was a mistake in the long run. And as my girls began to talk seriously about wanting to go to *real* school, I began to mourn the loss of all the things that this room has come to stand for. But, this season of having girls at home is a season. We’ve knitted and crocheted and danced and sang and laughed, until it seemed like my heart might burst. We have lived hard in here-we’ve learned how to translate Latin, dabbled in mixed media art and watercolors, read Homer and Shakespeare and Virgil, painted our nails hundreds of colors and folded 867 loads of laundry. It has functioned exactly like I thought it would. Up until about a month ago, I would have had absolutely nothing negative to say about this room. We clean the green table off 27 times a day, only to make room for more art. There’s usually books and nail polish and writing projects strewn about. My girls’ new favorite pastime is to watch nail art videos and make their art come true whilst listening to me read “Gulliver’s Travels.” It’s the first room we use in the morning and the last room we leave in the evening. We’ve only lived here two weeks but I can’t even count the hours we’ve already spent in here. A room that’s like me-–that reads and does laundry and blogs and dabbles in paints and maps and printing and child-rearing and bird watching. The multitasking type of room has long been a dream of mine. Here’s what I said about the room, after living with it for two weeks: The room is roughly 12×16 and I’ll let you peek at a sketch of the floor plan, sketched by Darlene. This room works harder than any room in our house, though it may, in fact, be the smallest in size. It functions as an office/homeschool room/laundry room/art room/coffee-drinking room/study room/bill-paying room/library. I collaborated with Darlene to turn this fairly small space into a powerhouse of a room. ![]() The concept of a multifunctional room like this is fairly new so I didn’t know anyone personally who had one. Does a multifunctional room really work as well as it sounds it would? One of the most asked questions about our new rebuild is how I’m liking the workroom. I’m hoping to release a new installment of the series each week.) (Just a little hint, May is all about Women, which goes perfectly with the series I’m working on about feminism. This is a year long series where we live our lives with purpose, focusing on a different area each month. I’ve been focusing on “Home” this month and let me remind you that if you’ve been doing any home projects-organizing, redecorating, cooking, gardening, etc-that you’d like to share, please link up tomorrow for “Home.
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