We haven't felt the need to blog lately because, well, the house building is pretty uneventful right now. We're mostly just getting settled and waiting for some key professional landscaping ingredients. However, inside we have realized a couple of things:
a. Despite being 20 feet wide, there's a lot of open space in the house. Or maybe it's just that we don't have very much furniture. This is proving to be a positive in Natalie's book- especially as she learns to walk with her little car back and forth and back and forth and back and forth (and back and forth). Plus we have plenty of room for a tent and tunnel in our living room- and isn't that just every child's dream? Twenty feet wide is proving to be plenty big so far.
...and back and forth
b. Our shiny new house makes the furniture we do have look ugly.
Like maybe it came from the streets of Boston on "big trash day" or the "as is" section of Ikea or something. We've been taking what we have and all the little things we saved and trying to give it all a place in our new life. We certainly don't *need* new stuff, we're living comfortably and fine with what we have. Paint can do wonders. Fabric can be reused. Hardware is available on something your husband called trash three days ago.
No, I'm not going to show you a picture of our ugly furniture.
I'm going with these cute window treatments instead.
My mother was intrigued by the challenge of creating roman shades for Natalie's room by taking apart old venetian blinds from our last house to use as parts.
c. We're too afraid to commit to hanging pictures and other things that require holes in our pretty new walls. Heck, we're too afraid to commit to buying floor mats for the front door and that certainly doesn't require holes. I think this drove my parents crazy last week during their visit. How many times did we hear, "You know, you should really put something to hang towels on in the bathroom." or "You really should get a mat for the front door." After rushing to commit and decide so much in the past year we have now slowed down considerably. Yes we know things like this can be changed, but knowing us, once we've committed $12.99 to a floor mat, it's not going to be changed until it literally falls apart. Therein lies the fear of commitment.
Note the artwork resting on the repainted shelf in the background.
Feel free to come over and vote where you think it should be hung.
-J
I think we lived in our house for well over a year before I hung a single thing on the wall. It drove me crazy all the time, but I just couldn't commit! Not that I did this, but you could get those 3M Command Strips that are removable, so you can hang with abandon without worrying about holes!
ReplyDeleteHelen is jealous of Natalie's tunnel! Next time we're at Ikea I totally want to get one.
Hey girl, I love the wall fear. I totally understand the desire to keep those lovely painted walls pristine. Enjoy the emptiness for what it is. You finally have a permanent home! And it is gorgeous!! We too have the ghetto/ Sanford and Son Yard. Ran out of money... Perhaps now that my paycheck will be back to "normal"...
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