Wishing for Beauty, Revisited

Wonderful friends, thank you for your comments! And just to make it clear, I do NOT want a showroom house. I prefer the lived-in quality too. But there is a line between functionally lived-in and "Wow! How do you get anything done in here?"

After being whiny in my last post, I got my rear in gear and shuffled things around in my sewing corner, revamped the positioning of the artwork in my girls' room, and set up a music area in my living room--you know, actually rearranged our movies and freed up a shelf for CDs and a CD player, etc. Amanda asked on Facebook if I took before and after pictures, but I am just not that type. You'll have to trust me that it feels better in here, though. More functional, anyway, which is what I was going for.

I still long to have more beautiful artwork on the wall, and I will have it at some point. Part of my problem stemmed from the fact that it took me six months to accept the fact that we *live* in this apartment, whether we like it or not, and I may as well settle into it. If all goes according to my new plan (ha!--we know what happens to anyone's best-laid plans), we'll be out of this place in a year. A year is too long to have boxes lingering in the corners and artwork languishing in a pile on my desk. Eventually, when the child growing inside me needs to sleep in a crib, I'll have to revamp the girls' room once again. I'm not thinking about that right now, because I have NO IDEA where I'll put their toys. I guess that's what under the crib is for. It'll be easier to homeschool when the kid's asleep anyway. Yeah. That sounds good.

So thank you for bearing with my whining and suggesting solutions. They were all good! If I get around to beautifying my plain muslin curtains or making up the artwork that I want to make, I'll post pictures. In the meantime, there's the project list I *must* conquer before the small child is born. Artwork can wait.