Behind the Living Room Couch

by Lorri on August 25, 2007 · 5 comments

in Corners of My Home

Is there no end to the places we have found to stash clutter?  At some point I think we stopped trying to hide it, and just tried to contain it to certain areas of the house.  That might help to explain this:

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To fully understand the scope of this particular area behind our living room couch, you need to know that the couch is located right smack in the middle of the room.  Imagine a long room, one end is your standard family room the other end is more of an office area.  The couch provides a physical divider between the two.  When you walk into the house, you look down a short hall, then directly  the living room and you see this mess.

This area has given us particular grief.  Most of the things stashed here are things we don’t know what to do with.  We want or need to keep them, it’s just a matter of where.  It took a long time to go through each box or bin, sorting, tossing and putting away.  Not every solution was the best, but we made it.  Another problem with this area was that its location made it very easy to add to.  It was a quick and easy place to stash whatever came into the house.  But it’s gone…

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And here’s the new view as you walk into my house:

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Ah, peace!

You can enjoy the rest of my attack against clutter here:  Corners Of My Home.

More Mac and Cheese, please!

 

{ 5 comments }

Andrea August 25, 2007 at 3:35 pm

wow!

so where *did* you put it all? that is amazing!

Sandy August 25, 2007 at 3:44 pm

That looks great! Good for you.

Renee August 26, 2007 at 5:17 am

I so understood the setup of your living room/office area. We’ve had a number of houses like it – seems to be the standard military design :)
Congrats on cleaning up the clutter. (Did you hide it in your bedroom? )

Mom August 28, 2007 at 5:43 pm

You’re doing mighty impressive work! I get really inspired…but that’s as far as goes :)

Laura August 30, 2007 at 12:25 am

Wow you are doing great work. It looks so much better. Isn’t that the best feeling, I love it!!

Laura (orgjunkie)

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