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We’re constantly updating and changing our apartment.
The living room tour I posted was months ago, and it’s changed so much since then! Today I’m going to share a little corner with you that serves as our “closet”. We have such a small apartment, so we try very hard to divide our rooms up into smaller sections that serve individual purposes. Our house is very old { 200 + years — it’s a registered landmark! }, so there isn’t much storage space. Thus, we’ve created this little area for our clothes:
My bureau comes from my Grandmother’s house. I can remember being really little and just completely fascinated with the glass knobs. It stayed in a closet off of a bed room which led into the attic of their house. I was convinced, at that age, that the attic was a secret hiding space for slaves in the underground railroad because this closet and its doors were so weird. When we were cleaning out my Grandmother’s house, I had to have this bureau. It reminded me of those wonderful years when my imagination ran wild!
If it seems like most of the clothes are mine, you’re right. Of course, it isn’t unusual that the lady of the house has twice as many articles of clothing than the man, and this is certainly the case with us as well. I have about three-quarters of this dowel to myself, plus my Grandmother’s bureau…and a few drawers in his bureau, as well, for PJs and linens. Poor guy.
On top of the “closet”, I’ve made a little display from my old inspiration board, the yarn letters that I made for Ryan for Christmas, and a birdcage that his parents gave to me last year as a gift. I love the whimsical look of it all, and it’s so wonderful that we’ve finally found a way to work with the vertical space that is so plentiful in this apartment. Would you believe that our ceilings are about fifteen feet tall? It’s so difficult to live so low to the ground and lose so much of our space to just air!
Inside the birdcage I’ve hung all of my necklaces! I don’t wear jewelry very often, so I don’t need it to be within reach. I do, however, fall in love with pieces from time to time, and I can’t help but add them to my very humble collection. I like the dreamy feel that my golden lockets and vintage beads lend to the dusty old bird cage, so it’s the perfect solution for me.
Ha! I even monopolized most of the shoe rack for myself. That’s okay, Ryan only has a few pairs of shoes, I don’t think he minds too much. And that’s it! Our humble little closet space. It’s nice to curate our closet as we would anything else in our house. Keeps our house cleaner and ensures that we only own clothes that we love to wear. The bottom suitcase as well as the weekender bag are both filled up with clothing that we’re saving for a clothing swap! I’ll be hosting one soon — can’t wait!
Thanks for touring our closet space!
xx.
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First stop is the sewing station {above} where all of my products come to life. Bess is my trusty sewing machine, always ready for more work and easy to run. It’s smooth sailing when we’re working together…most of the time.
Also in my shop space is Ryan’s Grandmother’s old sewing machine / my packing station. I stitch all of my packages shut to avoid all of that obnoxious packing tape {photos of my packages here!} so having two machines is a real help.
With every order I tuck three snapshots inside. They’re all freshly printed from this station, but some of them are photos taken of my family throughout the years. The rest are little moments that I couldn’t stand to see disappear.
