Saturday, April 10, 2010

Setting the Stage

Do you have a stage in your living room?

Well, that question has haunted me. Okay, maybe haunted is a bit strong.
However, I have been working on creating spaces downstairs for the kids to play together.
That way, their rooms can be for individual, quiet time. (In theory :)

So, I built a stage in my living room. I googled 'building a small stage' and was not very inspired by all the 30 minute youtube videos that came up.

Rather than watching any of those, I went to Home Depot and went to the scrap wood. Then, I just figured on what I thought I would need. I was few inches off...but, it doesn't matter too much :).

Then, I went to Ikea to try to figure out how to have stage curtains...

The results were as follows:



The Materials
The Space


Building the Frame
The best tool for the job
(with a shout out to the stain on the floor...what the **** is that :)??)


The Frame


It's a STAGE!
The Curtains


And, here we have Elise testing out the new place!
In the first one, she is doing "Single Ladies"


Dance away, Elise!


Born for the stage!


Brennan takes his turn testing out the new venue!

4 comments:

Elizabeth Peterson said...

totally not surprised that you would build a stage for your kids. I love the curtains and I love your creativity building in your kids!

Oh Sheila!!! said...

Love it!! You are so handy! I am not sure I am as handy, but I may have to steal that idea. Looking forward to seeing more family acts on your new stage. Fun, fun, fun!

Corinne - Copyright 2013 PontiusFamilyUpdates All Rights Reserved said...

I love that you decided not to watch the videos online because I do it all the time! Way to go!

Carrie said...

OMG you are such an awesome mommy Jenna!