Sunday, September 24, 2006
The Project: Shelves
The Opportunity: Grandparents love projects
The Goal: take down the baby gate across the living room.
The Problem: Musical instruments, which don't fit in the closet without absurd piling, and which get pretty musty in there.
Of course, it's not that simple. There's the emptying of the closet, the cleaning up of toys (Max was actually very helpful today!), the discovery and categorization of things previously hidden, the packing of the closet, the realization that some of the other things behind the gate need relocation, the clearing of the shelves, the cleaning of many moons worth of dust, the constant reminders of how long stuff can sit in a pile without being looked at, the moving of the tape collection, the (unrelated) retrieval of rock and instrument from behind the piano, and the satisfying post-construction dinner at Ken's.
¶ Sunday, September 24, 2006 
The Goal: take down the baby gate across the living room.
The Problem: Musical instruments, which don't fit in the closet without absurd piling, and which get pretty musty in there.
| The Solution: Revive storage space with shelves! |
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Of course, it's not that simple. There's the emptying of the closet, the cleaning up of toys (Max was actually very helpful today!), the discovery and categorization of things previously hidden, the packing of the closet, the realization that some of the other things behind the gate need relocation, the clearing of the shelves, the cleaning of many moons worth of dust, the constant reminders of how long stuff can sit in a pile without being looked at, the moving of the tape collection, the (unrelated) retrieval of rock and instrument from behind the piano, and the satisfying post-construction dinner at Ken's.
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Wow. That's a lot of work.
Having recently done much the same to the living room, I can attest to the embarrassing abundance of dust bunnies you find when you haven't moved something in a while.
Looks good!
Anne Zook
Having recently done much the same to the living room, I can attest to the embarrassing abundance of dust bunnies you find when you haven't moved something in a while.
Looks good!
Anne Zook
# posted by 
: 9/29/2006 5:00 AM
: 9/29/2006 5:00 AM
We're not done yet, either. I have to post pictures of the second major project we did while they were here, the box shelving and toy drawers in the sun room, and then we're going to have to address Max's room....
# posted by : 9/29/2006 9:02 AM
: 9/29/2006 9:02 AM
When the dust bunnies start forming *warrens*, you need to worry. Moving out of a house we've been in for three years...some of the furniture obviously hasn't been moved in all that time. (Luckily most of the piles of stuff had been moved at one time or another, though.)
Dust bunnies? Not really our problem. No, if something sits still long enough, it sprouts or something else lives in it.
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