Yesterday I had a breakthrough on how I could fit two tall bookshelves and two couches in the library room! When I last showed it to you, it looked like this:
That smaller loveseat was in the middle of the room because the wall behind it was covered with bookshelves. I spent our whole first weekend organizing them:
It was a very satisfying and very pretty wall-of-books, but there was no way we could fit more seating in. And it’s a small room. And there was no room in the living room for another loveseat. We have these nice, big windows with a beautiful view, and we’re not going to cover them with bookshelves or couches. We thought we’d have to move that loveseat down into the guest room until I had my flash of brilliance. In the past three weeks, the kids haven’t played at all with the play kitchen, which was nestled into a corner of the library (just to the right of the couch out of view in the first picture), taking up precious wall space. They’ve been carting all the play food down to the guest room, where their new play teepee from Uncle Matthew is currently hanging out. They really want to make that guest room into a play room. And realistically, we’ll only be using it as a guest room once a month, and I’ll only be using it as a sewing room occasionally, certainly after the kids are in bed. So why not go with that (and figure out that room later) and take the kitchen downstairs with all the other toys and make this room a grown-up room like we’d originally discussed?!
I spent this morning undoing all the work I’d done on those bookshelves and moved them to the opposite wall, sliding the loveseat in between them. Then their original wall was free for the couch. I kept the kids’ short bookshelf in there since nothing else would fit under my counter, anyway. I liked it. I hung pictures. This room is DONE! It’s a small space, so it’s hard to capture in one picture. I tried to get it from several angles, to give perspective. And the rest of the house is NOT done, as evidenced by tools sitting out and boxes shoved out of the way for the purposes of a cleaner photo shoot.
Next up: the living room, which is not done (waiting for the Pepperdine painter to get his act together and get out here to repaint for me), but at least I’ve finally figured out how I want to set up the furniture!
Looks great! Nicely done 😊.