Anyone who has visited our house knows that you enter through a hallway that can only be described as chaotic. Euphemistically, we think of it as our "mud room", the "puppy airlock" or even "another spot on the to-do list". Well, all of this changed this past week.
You will remember that Bob and I picked up a slew of cabinets that were being removed from JoAnn and Eric's house. How could you forget? I posted the excitement of offloading and schlepping in the dark and cold and snow... eventually all those cabinets wound up in a large stack in our living room. (We also had the pleasure of dining with JoAnn and Eric while their kitchen was transitioning. They had a large stack of large boxes and an interruption in "normal" life but it resembled ours so we felt right at home.)
Last week was so cold that Bob was unable to get his studio warmed up so he set to work and started to restore/instill order in our hallway.
We moved everything out: horse food, coats, seeds, old cabinets and shelves, boots, paint, drying vegetables, cleaning supplies, vases, etc etc.. This in itself took quite a while as there was more there than you'd think. We marveled at how much bigger the hallway really was under all that accumulation of stuff. Some of it got moved to the downstairs bathroom.
Temporarily, this made using the bathroom entertaining. Fortunately, Bob made quick work of the reconfiguration of the cabinets and within two days, we had a much more efficient and orderly hall.
Eventually, there will be shoji screens covering the shelves- much like the upstairs closet that Bob constructed for me. But in the meantime? What an improvement! The hall feels much wider and there are places to put all that stuff. It was a lot of measuring and puzzling for Bob to figure out just how to best assemble the cabinets but he did a great job. It's amazing how a project like this can transform a part f your house. I can't wait for Phase II.
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