To move or not to move has
been our question for a long time now. Boy, I could really use a
separate room for all things eWillow.com related. We are minus one bird
now that Adrienne is off to college; however, I just can’t bring myself
to turn her nest into a craft room. Where will she chill when she
comes home?
I love where I work now
because even though it is out-of-the-way, it is still part of where my
family chills. I’m in a different room, but we have an open floor plan
as far as the living and family rooms go, so we always feel like we are
together. (I have this weird hang-up about being in a different room
when my husband and kids are home with me. I like it when we are all
together. It is some type of innate motherly feeling or something.
Some people tell me I’m weird. Oh, well!)
I digress…
Back to the reason why we are
here. My work room is very CLUTTERED. That is just how I roll when
I’m making stuff. The clutter has caused me such anxiety that I am
ashamed to have company! Funny thing is, you really don’t see the
clutter unless you are standing in a certain place in our house. A few
years ago, I tried to hide the clutter by doing this:
It worked really well for
awhile. However, this photo was taken back at the beginning of 2008,
which was nearly a year before the idea for eWillow.com was even
conceived. Oh, how the clutter has grown since then!
A few weeks ago, we made our
first-ever trip to IKEA. I was totally inspired when I saw a set of
curtains. My mind immediately conjured up the idea to hang curtains
from the ceiling and make my office a separate room that can be hidden
when needed, but open when I’m working. And that is how we saved
$750,000 on a new house by spending $100 at IKEA and Home Depot.
Let’s take a look:
Our first challenge was
making the curtains long enough. We have ten-foot ceilings, and I
wanted the curtains to dust the floor, but I didn’t want them to hang
directly from the high ceiling. Solution: long planter hooks from Home
Depot. (I think they are 15″ long.) By laying the curtain rod onto
the planter hooks, the curtains now almost touch the floor and they hang
far enough down from the ceiling that I don’t feel claustrophobic.
These picture makes me smile because this is the first big project that
my husband was able to tackle after his cancer/chemo complications.
