We have a little closet in the corner of the living room.
Bless it's heart. The living room is such an odd room.
The closet shares a wall with the closet in the downstairs bedroom.
Bill uses that room as his office which is why you rarely see it.
I rarely see it.
There is always important bank stuff going on in there.
The odd corner by the window could have been a wet bar according to the house plans. Thank heavens we did not have that. We had a piano there for years but Bill said the the piano had to go.
It did.
The closet was a fabulous place to put toys and games when we had small children in the house.
When our oldest became a teenager and he needed his own room, Bill gave up the office and he turned the little living room closet into his office.
He reworked the shelves and put in a little built in desk.
This is the only picture that I have of the desk top.
When the kids moved out, he got to move his office back into the downstairs bedroom.
I inherited the little closet.
I painted part of it Tiffany blue about 6 years ago. I didn't have enough paint to do the whole room so two of the walls and under the desk were still white.
I never sat at the desk. It became a catchall for anything that I wanted to hide away.
Bill kept the closet neat and tidy.
Katie does not.
I'm a slob.
When we were given the mantel, my sister's old desk got moved out of my room.
I didn't want to give it away but we didn't have room for it either.
I realized that it could fit in the closet. The built-in desk came out easily.
The new desk doesn't fit like the old desk so the incomplete Tiffany Blue paint job became obvious.
Now, it's not that big of a deal. The only person to see the closet is me.
Bill refuses to open the door for fear that something will fall on him.
I had to paint it anyway.
This may not make any sense to anyone but I used the color that I'm sick of from my bathroom.
I knew that the days were numbered for the color in my bathroom. I had almost a whole can of it left. It's a small space. I'm not in there often. Maybe, it will look gray like it's supposed to.
The color is Gray Screen by Sherwin Williams. It reads blue not gray.
I still see blue but it doesn't bother me.
In addition to storage, I wanted this space to be inspiring.
I pulled in some pretty and romantic accessories.
The paint was barely dry before I started hanging art.
I don't craft in there. I usually craft at the dining room table or the kitchen island but it is a great place for crafting supplies.
I will sew in there.
Hopefully, things will stay more organized.
Somehow, I doubt it.
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Katie
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