Beautiful CM style school room

Very kind of you, LindseyD.

I’ve been on this board for 4 or 5 years, but don’t participate a lot. (My children being so much older.) You can click on my name to read my previous posts. There aren’t many. I had a CM website back in the 90’s and was very active on the old yahoogroups in the 90’s and 2000’s. I’m not sure anyone would still remember me from those times. 

How lovely that you all are so quick to one another’s defence. That must be wonderful to have a close group of friends to keep each other safe and defend each other against those 1% who shouldn’t stick around where they’re not really wanted. I suppose each website does have it’s own flavor, and likes keeping it as safe as possible. 

I did pop over to your blog and your post on Manners was really admirable. You have a very sweet family. 

Very inspiring! We are hoping to turn our garage apartment next door to our house into a small school space by the end of next summer. I thought everything looked beautiful but a little dark. We are hoping for lighter colors in our schoolroom with lots of book shelves.

Awesome pinterest boards, Lindsey. I am loving your peacock feather wreath and gray walls.

Regarding schoolrooms, I am all about flexibility. We recently had to rearrange the house and add personal desks to bedrooms because our family size increased with baby #8. My 30 Ikea Billy bookcases (the narrow 15 inch ones) throughout the house add a bit of charm. RobinP, here on the boards, is my inspiration…there’s nothing like living in the library (except maybe living in a museum).

@CM Mom: Your suggestion to school at an outside table blessed me greatly. Please continue to share your opinions as I would love to learn from you, a wise and experienced Charlotte Mason mother. Thank you.

Janell

Lindsey – How do I find you on Pinterest?

We completely changed our school room over a year ago to accomodate more study and project space for each kid. I actually prefer how it looked before, but I love it’s functionality for our family now and I’m thankful for a handy hubby!

Mysterious – The desks areas can get quite messy throughout the day, but they are tidied each afternoon. Sometimes a project stays out, but books and things get put away. My dd7 can really pile things up if I don’t keep an eye on it, but she’s building the habit because we do it daily. They do enjoy having a spot of their own. Before Pics. I loved the before look even more, but this is much more functional for us and I love it, too.

I know not everyone has space for or is interested in having a dedicated homeschool room, but it’s a blessing to me to be able to have one. Now if we ever move, I want to take it with me!

Christie, that is LOVELY!  Thank you for some inspiration.  I have been looking at our bookshelves in dispair as I try to arrange them satisfactorily for this upcoming year.  So far, no success.  I need at least 2 more large bookshelves, and need to do rearranging to get them.  Though I really thought I needed to have them all figured out by this coming week, that is not the plan that is before me at this moment, and I think I’ll just take the rearranging slowly and make it some together time with the girls so we can talk about family stuff which will help us all right now, too.  Maybe I’ll add pictures, though I am fairly certain our room will not look quite as lovely as yours or several of the others that I’ve seen.

They greatly prefer this set up with their own workspaces. They did like the chairs in the pictures better than the industrial wooden seat ones we replaced them with. The new ones are hard! We just migrate to the kitchen if we need to do table work together, but that is rare. Otherwise we sit on the couch to read.