The William Morris Project, Week 39, Day 2 - bohemian hellhole

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." This is day two of week thirty-nine of the Pancakes & French Fries William Morris Project, happening every thursday in 2012, and every single day in October. Here is what I am thinking for the William Morris project-within-a-project. I want to reverse engineer my home. In short, I want to really look at why I love certain peoples houses, or photographs of rooms, take them apart, and then implement those items{or styles, or ideas} into my home. Not make it over from the outside, but turn it over, inside out.

Starting small: the game closet.

via organic mechanic

While our house doesn't have any spare walk in closets or extra mini rooms to stock with board games and family disputes, I have always loved the idea of a game closet. A designated space for family fun. It sounds good, right? I did a reasonable job back in week 6 of at least locating our games and putting them in the linen closet. Soon afterward I found a few more games, decided to store sewing machines and mending in the same closet and promptly ran out of room.

Rather than having a specific shelf in the closet, the games had a general area. That general area spread around the corner to a little table, which turned into a junk wasteland.

No longer! Today I gave the funny little cabinet at the end of the kitchen cabinets a new job. Game Closet.

Systems like this work for me because they are so obvious and simple, I don't need to think about which thing goes where on a certain shelf. It worked well in the bathroom, where there is a drawer just for brushes, one for toothbrushes, one for fingernail care, etc. No co-mingling. This is the also the reason I don't like fruit salad, the fruit is compromised. The bananas get slime all over the berries, and everything gets a squishy film on it. I feel like I work better when things are separate. Games with games and linens with linens.

Baking experimental quinoa muffins, Alice

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