It's been tidied and de-cluttered. However, I'm already tired of going back and forth to get stuff out of storage. Ideally I need about 100 more cool boxes, or set of plan drawers cum cubby holes cum little drawers, that lock to keep little kiddy-mitts out, in Rimu or another NZ timber, with some brass hardware. Heh. Dream on. I don't think any such thing exists after a trawl of furniture and antiques stores (well the ones left post-earthquake anyway).
Then the hubby remembered he had, in a shed at his family farm, a set of munted old wooden drawers that he used to keep screws and nails in, a few era's ago when he was a coach-builders apprentice. These look like the ones pictured a-top, except with more, smaller drawers. I'm certain they will fit under the shelf on the right, in place of the sewing machine cabinet that Claudine regularly trashes. The best thing about them is that the drawer runners are shot. ie only an adult has enough strength to yank them open. Hurrah!
So we've made an apointment with the farm leasee to go pick 'em up. Hopefully a polish will be all that's required, otherwise they will have to join the 'doing-up' to-do list. I'm too impatient for that. I'm already mentally labeling all the drawers!
Next, the pictured litho by NZ mid-century modernist Roy Cowan I got at auction ages ago is off to the framers, set to replace those old watercolours. Whilst I'm really not into interior decorator art, the interior decorator tactic of having some linking colours is definatly going to help here, to link this space with the rest of the room as there is a wee bit of pale blue in some of the other art and pottery there, and in my lovely 1950's paper fans http://www.acornandwill.co.uk/acatalog/vintage_paper_fans.html
