artwork | organised castle

It is just over 5 months since we moved into this house.

One of the first pictures was of our lounge. This was 6 days after the removalists placed the majority of things in this large front room.

It was the last room to be sorted out as we had no furniture for it apart from the already attached IKEA television cabinet and glass-fronted wall cabinets. We ordered furniture which had a lead time of nearly four months but it was worth the wait.

The room is very large – it was originally a double garage. Although we had some ideas about how to configure it, we were not prepared to make any firm decisions until we had the furniture for a little while to see how things worked.

After a month of using the room we decided to bite the bullet. Some of the contents of the glass-fronted cabinets has been relocated to the sideboard in the dining area. You can read about it in this post. The remaining items did not need 3 double-door cabinets so we kept two and sold the other one. We also decided to move the cabinets to another wall. This allowed the sofa to be positioned where the cabinets had been. This important as the wall where the blinds are is fully glass sliding doors and faces north. We want to keep the furniture away from that side of the room.

The single chairs are positioned facing the television which is the default position when there is just the two of us here. However, they can easily be moved so that they face the couch for a more cosy conversation space. Likewise, the cedar trunk can be repositioned between the seating as an occasional table.

Once the furniture was in place, we turned our attention to the artwork and hung them today. My final task is to source a floor lamp to go beside the glass-fronted cabinets. Back to Marketplace………… It may take time but I feel confident that I will find the statement piece that I have in mind.

Today I have been revamping the home office/library area in our home. This is really a follow up post to one I wrote in January which you can read here.

I finally moved the Australian Geographic magazines to the bottom shelf of the shelving unit in the lounge room and finally the bookcase was empty.

I advertised it on a couple of local Facebook Buy, Swap, Sell sites and it looks as though it will be going to a new home tomorrow.

This is what one side of the office looked like a couple of years ago. The freezer has been moved downstairs and with one bookcase ready to go we now have this blank corner.

I am planning to get a comfy chair to put in the corner and create a reading nook.

Meanwhile, on the opposite wall we have a folding trestle table which we use as a computer desk.

This was always only a temporary measure but it has been like this for nearly 10 years! After much searching I have found this piece at IKEA. I have only seen it online but hopefully it will measure up to my expectations.

The look of the room has been changed by re-arranging some of the artwork we have.

These are above the computer desk at the moment but if I end up getting the IKEA desk I will relocate them to the other side so they will be above the reading chair.

Here are a couple of others which have also been changed around.

The office/library is a rather strange room due to the fact that the house was extended many years ago before we bought it. This room was originally the main bedroom at the end of the house, however, it is now a walk-through room to the additional bedrooms. The cupboards in the above photo would have been the original wardrobe. The right-hand side is my linen cupboard and the left-hand side holds the filing cabinet.

As you can see from the link in the first paragraph, we downsized from a 4 drawer filing cabinet to a 2 drawer one. This left plenty of space but it was not particularly functional. Today, we have cut down an offcut of melamine coated shelving and created a new shelf.