Moving On Up

The girls have been obsessed with bunk beds ever since they spent a couple of nights in bunk beds at Walt Disney World.  They have asked for bunk beds over and over and over and over and over again.
They finally wore us down.  For their birthday, we're getting them bunk beds.  We spent some time in furniture stores, but ended up buying them from Target for a fraction of the furniture store price.  The furniture store bunk beds were beautiful, solid pieces of furniture.  If we thought this was a long-term purchase, we would have spent the money.
The reality is the girls are turning eight years old.  If they stick with the bunk beds for four or five years, I think we'll be lucky.  We're going to let them decorate their bunk beds with butterfly stickers that we recently picked up.  The stickers are for walls, but that doesn't mean they won't be adorable on the beds.
We're also letting them do a bit more redecorating.  They declared their curtains and wall decorations to be "for babies."  They are big on removing anything babyish from their world.  Of course, a lot of it was pink, which was recently banned from their world, so I'm sure that didn't help save the curtains.
The girls spent several afternoons with Jayne going through stores and deciding on colors.  They chose lime green and bright blue as the new color scheme.  We bought new rugs at Ikea and curtains at Target.  I told them they'd have to live with the bright yellow paint on the walls.  I'm willing to swap out rugs and curtains, but painting is bigger project. 
Their new bedroom should be ready by their birthday.  It's the first time they made their own decorating decisions, but I'm sure it won't be the last.