More House Dreaming

First of all, thanks Rhys for your comment and suggestion. That sounds like a great idea, and I will go check out Harbor Freight as soon as I'm done here. I agree - finding something that doesn't lock me into one way of arranging things would be good - it'll probably be awhile before I get everything 'just right' and in the meantime there will probably be a lot of rearranging. Plus, the way I add hobbies to my repertoire, expansion possibilities would be good. ;o)

I suspect that for some of the rest of the stuff, I'm just going to have to wait until I get it all there and see what I have. I may have some things I don't really want anymore (plastic bins of general crap that I'm never going to use), and I may find there are some things I would like to have but never got because there was no room for them here. I may not need nearly the 'wall o' cubbies' I had in mind, I may not have nearly as many things as I originally thought to tuck into such places.

And some of the stuff that I do keep isn't large enough to warrant it's own specially designed space, but too large for small cubbies and wicker baskets. (I know I have some unfinished wood boxes, a couple of glass vases I had plans for, things like that). I may find that wall cabinets work better than a bunch of cubbies, once I get it out and look at it all.

While I don't need to seriously limit what supplies I keep on hand (like I've had to do here), I do know that the more of the room I can leave clear, the more chance I'll have the space for my comfy chair I'd like to have.

My head's spinning with the possibilities. But I suppose I ought to focus on something else for awhile, because I know how I work - once I get there, make a cup of tea and sit down in the middle of the empty room to just sit for awhile, looking at the room, it'll start telling me what it wants. :o)

I suspect, to be more pragmatic, I could start focusing on this place for now. There are plenty of things we can pack up now, and in fact we've already started. Because we made up our minds - even if for some awful reason we don't get this particular house, we're committed to getting something bigger than this place, and moving. So either way it's happening, and some things we rarely use can be packed up now rather than waiting till the last minute for it all.

I suspect the most likely place to start is my 'attic' - the little areas off the sides of the main room upstairs, all tucked up under the eaves of the house as it were. Not going to be fun or easy, but has to be done.

Maybe I can get to that this weekend ... dark evenings are not the time to be rooting around up there.