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Hi everyone! As most of you know, we’ve moved our school room to the basement, and so today I’m sharing our updated homeschool room tour with you!
I want to start off by saying that you by no means need to have a dedicated “classroom” in order to homeschool. You can literally homeschool anywhere you have space, or wherever you prefer. We often pack up and head to the library to do school, sometimes we end up in the living room, and other times we head outside. It really depends on the day and our mood!
That said, I do have a setup school area that we use the majority of the time. It works well for our family and we’re thankful to have this space! So I thought it would be fun to take a little tour and show you how we have it all set up now that we’ve moved!
Watch Our Updated Homeschool Tour 2016 here!
Click here for more details on our school desk setup. Ikea discontinued the table tops I purchased, but they replaced them with the Linnmon Table Tops, white. I think everything else is the same. Here are links to the desk pieces.
- 4 – Vika Alex Drawer units
- 2 – Vika Linnmon Table Tops (I purchased two 2.5′ x 5′ table tops and put them together for a 5×5 table)
- 2 x 4 Kallax shelf
- Micke Desk
- 4 Jules Jr. Swivel Chairs (Update: Swivel chairs are working well, they’ve gotten over the spinning, so it’s all good now.)
- Marius Stool
As promised, here are some links to the products mentioned in this video and a few other products we’ve used in our homeschool:
- Expandable Drawer Organizer
- Desktop Supply Carousel
- Mavalus Tape
- 8×8 Clear Project Cases
- Reading Bench Tutorial
- X-Acto Sharpener
- Pokémon Figures
- Food Erasers
- Reading Incentives Chart
- Geography Terms Poster
- Ikea School Desks
- 1-100 Number Chart
- Days of the Week
- Months of the Year
- Calendar Time
- Gingham Calendar Numbers
- USA Wall Poster (Sorry, I couldn’t find the exact one, but we like this one too.)
- World Wall Poster (Sorry, I couldn’t find the exact one)
- Manuscript Alphabet Bulletin Set
- Cursive Alphabet Bulletin Set
Click below to download:
For those of you wondering about our birdies, they’re still upstairs in the old location which has now become my sewing room! I was worried the basement might get cold, and so we kept them upstairs in the room their familiar with. So now I have tweety company while I sew 
Hi Erica,
Those budgies have quite the cage. Love it! You need to do a post on them. We would love to learn how you care for them and all the fun accessories you have to keep them entertained. My kiddos would like to have 2 budgies and your set up looks like a birds paradise! My kiddos enjoy spending there school time with our dogs. Our Labrador sleeps under their work table and he makes a great foot rest and foot warmer! While our new little Min Pin snuggles with them when they are reading! I have notice a difference when it comes to reading time with my kiddos, when they snuggle up with our dogs, there willingness to read and read extra pages has increased.
Thank you for sharing your school room. I am drooling over your space.
Karen
Completely different question, but I really like your flooring! We have to re-do ours due to water damage. Do you know what kind/color it is? We’ve looked at some wood-looking luxury vinyl tile options. If you don’t mind sharing, I’d really appreciate it!
Yes, it’s a wood laminate from Carpet Exchange called Aged Chesnut. But Home Depot has the exact same thing from Bruce flooring called Reclaimed Chesnut. So far it’s been great. The only thing that is a little bit of a bummer is you can feel it bounce a little in spots when you walk. But that’s due to our basement floor not being totally level. They did level it as best as they could, but there are a few spots.
Wonderful space and beautiful home! Thanks so much for sharing!
Do the kids do the messy sorts of crafts at their school table? Like painting and such? Trying to figure out how we will set up when we move and set up a new schoolroom. We will be in our current setup for at least one more school year, but then we will have a new house to do a new setup for school.
It depends, sometimes we’ll do less messy crafts at our desks, sometimes we do it in the kitchen if it’s a more messy craft.
Hello Erica,
This is going to seem like an odd question but I was curious as to what state you live in. We are located in California and I am having such a hard time finding and understanding the process of becoming a homeschool household. Along with that confusion, I’m having a hard time understanding the vaccination problem that California has for homeschooling. It seems like there is a loophole that is requiring us to still have to vaccinate either way even though we don’t want to. This question is really only relevant if you do live in California.
Either way, thank you so much for putting your homeschooling journey out there for parents like us. It helps a lot to know what direction to go in and have a support group for these types of things.
Thank you,
Amber T.
Hi Amber,
Each state has different requirements. You might check http://www.hslda.org they have a lot of information on each state that may be able to help you out. You should also be able to call your local school district and they should have info on homeschooling requirements as well.
Hello, I know this video is from last year, but was wondering if you could link your expandable desk drawer organizer? Thank you!! I love your blog and videos on youtube!
No problem, I just put in a link in the post, thanks for letting me know. You can get it here: http://amzn.to/2is2dBw
Very nice room! Where did you get the clear divider thing to hold the books up in the kallax shelves?
Those are from the Container Store, they’re just magazine holders 🙂 LOVE THEM THO!
Do you still recommend the Brother color printer from your 2013 post?
Where are your cabinets from?? I love the vertical wood grid doors!!
Hi Bethany,
They’re MC Mid Continent Cabinetry
Could you share the specific model you got for your cabinets?
Oh sorry, I honestly don’t remember which ones they are and I can’t find the paper work 🙂