Moving Furniture, Playing With My New Cart, "Nesting" (when I SHOULD be working)...

As you may have read in the post just below this one,

I got a new "toy" over the weekend and honestly,

I cannot stop playing with it!

{Just because... the view from my kitchen sink...}

But I really should stop playing with it all -- since I have

SOOO much

to do at the office!

But this purchase has prompted a whole domino affect of changes

around the house now -- and it's been SO fun!

Yesterday I moved most of the family room furniture into another room...

BELOW,

FAMILY ROOM "BEFORE" ALL THE MOVING OF PIECES.

(The only "before"pic I could find was from the 2/09 issue of Romantic Homes mag...)

BELOW, FAMILY ROOM "AFTER" :

I moved most of our living room furniture into the family room

and then "rounded things out" with various other

pieces from around the house...

{I love the two different fabrics on this chair!

And I challenge anyone to surpass the number of fabrics I can cram into any one room!}

:)

{One of my all-time favorite buys: an East German

blanket chest from 1743. A keeper, to be sure!}

It feels like we got a whole

new two rooms and

SPENT NOTHING!

Wait.

What was that sound?

I thought I heard someone clearing their throat...

Oh, this is where

"Dream-Hubs" would remind me that we

DID spend something on that cart...

But I digress...

Thought I'd share my quickie re-do of the furniture in our

family room -- which leads directly into the kitchen

with it's newly painted cabinets.

I realize you really have no point of reference for how things looked before

(CAUSE I FORGOT TO TAKE "BEFORE" PICTURES!)

but trust me, the furniture moving was a nice improvement!

All the colors flow much better now and look

so serene and calming.

I love it!

CART LOCATION UPDATE:

It is still in the kitchen and

I have resisted moving it all over the house for various reasons:

1.) I could really get on people's nerves to be rolling something that large

back and forth in front of the TV while I decide where I want it...

2.) In view of Thanksgiving coming up, I figure we could use it in the kitchen

(at least for now) to help hold all the food that the family will be bringing....

3.) My daughter and a friend are hosting a LARGE Christmas party here

and the living room (where I think the cart will ultimately land) is going to be

one of their "dance floors"... so I will hold off and allow them all the room they can get

before hauling that giant cart in there, in their way...

4.) It is still in very good shape, but it has grown a bit, shall we say

"weak in the joints" and I just have this fear that the more I move it around,

the more I'm pushing my luck. I waited SO long for it, I don't want to be the one to

break it!

(And to that, I hear a loud "You got that right!" in my brain from Dream-Hubs).

Thanks for putting up with my playing house and sharing it with you.

I suppose now I should get back to work...

But at least that's just as fun -- when you work amid such beautiful things!

:)

Happy Monday!

~Ruth~