Need Help/Ideas/Photos If Possible...

[gkids09]

I REALLY want to re-do my entrance room to my daycare...

A little background...I do NOT live in my daycare. It is a group home daycare, and it is in a house, which used to be my great grandparents' house, was passed on to my grandmother, and when she retired she passed it to me.

The room is pretty large. We have a small reading corner, a tv area, an adult size dining room table (can be removed if needed, usually just gets JUNK stacked on it), a card table for parents to sign kids in/out each day, a very large front window, and two other windows. I know it's really hard to picture, but I don't have any photos.

My problem is, the entire room is paneling, minus one wall, which is brick. I want to leave the bricks as they are, and either paint or use some kind of something to decorate the paneling. I don't have a ton of money to do this, but I KNOW it is so outdated, and NEEDS to have something done to it. It's not welcoming. It is so plain. The playroom has alternating walls of blue and yellow, if that helps.

Any suggestions??? I really am open to ANYTHING you can come up with.