one thing leads to another

you know the old story about putting a rose in

a room? then you clean the table on which it is perched.

then you open the drapes. then you pick up the clutter and vacuum

and on and on until you have an 

easy on the eyes room.

make one small pretty change and it leads to more.

that happened to me this week.

and it started with painting my door red.

that led to completely rearranging the furniture

in our living room. which meant moving furniture out 

and into our bedroom. which meant moving furniture out

of our bedroom and into our den (pictured above).

which led to painting the moved furniture since

it had a new home. i'll show you that later.

it also led to finally hanging the big distressed mirror that 

i have hauled through three moves (always writing into the contract

that my mirror does not convey).

in our small space it adds a big punch, throwing light

and reflections around the room. i love it.

hanging the mirror also led me to do something on the opposite wall,

which to this point had yet to be treated. but having that wall in 

the mirror's reflection pushed me to get 

something up there. 

so i dug around in our shed (grabbing the empty frames)

and the storage closet and threw this 

up there. kind of haphazard but it works for now.

there was a mahogany secretary desk here but it got the

boot because it was just too chunky for this space.

my grandmother's old drop leaf table is now perched here. 

it's just the right depth allowing us to move the sofa and 

have a walkway between the back of the sofa and the wall.

see the wall to the right of the black door? that's where the 

drop leaf table was but we could never open the 

back door all the way. and my three little guys would

inevitably slam that table every time they swung the door open.

now the door opens all the way!

but now i need to do something with that wall.

don't like the picture there. 

with summer coming i anticipate lots of in and out over in that

corner so i may throw some kind of treatment on that wall

and put up some hooks.

and it all started with the red door.

now, back to my planned projects!

does this ever happen to you? please tell me i'm not the only one. :)