Just Moving Things Around

I have always loved to rearrange furniture.  I can remember doing it when I was very young at my home.  When I was first married and very young(and still strong), I would move the furniture so much that when Hubs would come home from work he might think he was in the wrong house.

But the last few years have been different.  I just don't have the strength (or the "want to" if the truth be known) to surprise Hubs with a completely rearranged house when he gets home.  Now I have to wait for him to help me!

After Christmas it took me days to take down my decorations.  I didn't have that much but I had many short diversions to focus on elsewhere.  Then I got it in my mind it was high time to move a few pieces just to make things interesting.

So here are the results.  I forgot to take "Before" shots but here's what I did.

I had these two big club chairs in my living room and we really never sat on them.  I have a bay window in my kitchen and we kept a small table and chairs there but never really use them.  We eat all our meals on our island.  We also have a TV built in the cabinets where we watch the morning and evening news.
We don't have a TV in the living room.  So I decided to move the table upstairs to our bonus room over the garage and put the club chairs in the kitchen where we could actually sit down comfortably and read or watch the news!

Now my living room is more open to the kitchen and the rooms feel much larger.

Then I took the chairs that went with the table in the kitchen and moved them in my dining room and moved some of those wooden dining chairs upstairs.

Not sure how this looks to you but I like the parsons chairs in the dining room!

I also found a new mirror that I had been looking for for many months.

I'm not sure I will leave it on top of my mantel but for right now, I think I like it!

In my bedroom is a matching bay window like the one in the kitchen.  I have a small loveseat in that bay window where I sit every morning and read my Bible, write my list of prayer concerns, read my Beth Moore devotions and also read my Jesus Calling daily.

I keep so many little books and two Bibles on that little couch that often there is no place to sit.

So I decided, in the spirit of re-organization, to make what I call my "Bread Basket" to sit by my little loveseat.  

Now I can read my "daily bread" and have it all together!

I want to show you one more thing!  Look what I found when I was putting Christmas decorations back in boxes in the garage.

These "Sesame Street" figurines were in my children's rooms when they were really small.  I have never been able to part with them because they remind of such special and fun years.

They are in pretty good shape considering how old they are.  Wish I could say the same about myself!!