The "Latest" study area!

I was reading the lovely Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus blog the other day on swoonworthy learning spaces / homeschool rooms and although we have had dedicated home school work spaces before somehow we've managed to end up back at the dining table. They haven't always worked for us. The study was too small and confined and the spare room, well it got very messy and cluttered as it was too big for just a school room for too so I ended up with crafts, toys etc.you name it in there. Needless to stay it ended up a mess and not a happy place!

Unfortunately Tina's "swoonworthy" pictures of homeschool rooms got me all motivated again and this time I decided to cut off part of my "parent's retreat" (obviously the architect who designed that room didn't have kids or hadn't met ours ... cause there's no retreating from them anywhere!) to make a little study area.

Things are on the move.

So I started pulling the shelves and other homeschooling things out of my study.

I then had to unload ALL the books (peeps there must be a cut off point for accumulating too many books!!!) so I could move some book shelves. This was exhausting! I had to take many a break to pop onto facebook to get some inspiration and motivation from my friend Kat. OK I was just sick of it after 15 minutes and decided to annoy her.

Now in it's new home in the retreat.

Once the new shelves are set up, I will redo these shelves as they are rather packed at the moment and not looking at all "swoonworthy"!

Looking from the lounge room (double doors) into the retreat.

Now what you can't see in this picture is on the left of me in the room are towers of books that wont fit back into the shelves. I had to bring some school books out of the study which has used up extra space. Fortunately I can purchase the same shelving unit as those other two and it will fit alongside them so I am rather pleased with that. Guess what I'll be doing Saturday .. shopping for my new unit ... yeah. That will be shelf set number 10 for our house! OK the one's in the girls rooms are filled with toys and ornaments so they don't count.

 

Two excited girls.

These two monkeys are loathe to leave the table, they love it so much ... they even asked to eat their lunch there! I said no, after all I had just vacuumed! This window and door leads to the back verandah. (It's was very foggy here this morning; OK the window / door does also really need a good cleaning!) Behind me are another set of windows and a door that lead to the direction of the lake so there's plenty of natural light in there. Teacher's lounge  (or should I say couch) is right behind me, once I can clear all those books out of the way to get to it.

Thanks for the inspiration (and very sore back) Tina xxx