While Luke wanted to encourage my creativity, he didn’t think going to this extent was necessary. The corner was right! The space would be perfect for all of that. And I bet a strong guy like you could still shove in a cute accent chair on top of that - if you try really, really hard.” Even though it’s a bit tight, you know you can squeeze a couch in me. One vacant corner winked at me and said, “C’mon. The thing I hadn’t anticipated was that when we finished decorating one part of the space, the other parts looked empty and sad, yet totally seductive. The more cheap items I found, the more I became a decorating tornado. And then the beds could have canopies over them while the bedding itself could somehow have their favorite colors.Įverything spun out of control from there. I decided to make a whole collage of photos on one giant wall! And my two nieces couldn’t simply share a blow-up bed like my sister suggested. A few super cheap plastic photo frames from IKEA with their pictures would be plenty enough to give their space a nice personal touch.Īt $0.79 each, a “few photo frames” from IKEA turned into a few dozen. I didn’t have to go overboard or anything. She said a couple of blow-up mattresses would be all they needed.
My sister told us not to make a big fuss for her and my nieces. And since our basement was still empty after our former (and beloved) roommate moved out, we had the space to host them all under our roof. We are very tight with one another and it had been 11 years since everyone was here at the same time. The chaos started when my entire family (minus one) decided to visit.
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