phirey
10-03-2004, 02:26 PM
DD's stuff has completely taken over our great room. As she becomes more independent, we're considering setting up a playroom for her to play in. I have a ton of questions:
1) Where? We have two options: The spare bedroom that's the other half of her Jack-and-Jill, or part of the finished basement. The bedroom is upstairs and opens to a catwalk over the greatroom. Even if we can't see her we'd be able to hear her when we're not in the room. The basement is more conducive to us hanging out with her (workout equipment, TV and sofa all down there). But I fear we'd never use it if it were down there, since I wouldn't be as comfortable allowing her to go down there alone. In other words, if we used the basement I'd only let her play down there when we could stop everything and go down there with her.
2) What comforts do you have for yourself? (So that you can "play" in there with your child, do you have a TV, a computer, etc. in there?
3) Does size matter? ;-) The bedroom is small and we'd still have to limit the number/size of toys. The basement would have room for her to spread out, albeit amongst OUR toys (workout stuff, etc.)
So tell me about yours, what you'd do in our situation, and what you'd do different if you could set yours up now. TIA.
P
1) Where? We have two options: The spare bedroom that's the other half of her Jack-and-Jill, or part of the finished basement. The bedroom is upstairs and opens to a catwalk over the greatroom. Even if we can't see her we'd be able to hear her when we're not in the room. The basement is more conducive to us hanging out with her (workout equipment, TV and sofa all down there). But I fear we'd never use it if it were down there, since I wouldn't be as comfortable allowing her to go down there alone. In other words, if we used the basement I'd only let her play down there when we could stop everything and go down there with her.
2) What comforts do you have for yourself? (So that you can "play" in there with your child, do you have a TV, a computer, etc. in there?
3) Does size matter? ;-) The bedroom is small and we'd still have to limit the number/size of toys. The basement would have room for her to spread out, albeit amongst OUR toys (workout stuff, etc.)
So tell me about yours, what you'd do in our situation, and what you'd do different if you could set yours up now. TIA.
P