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Yikes! Pictures are piling up and I haven’t had time to post. Here’s a quick run-through of my adventures in curtains.

For quite some time, I’ve been wanting to soften up the bare walls in my living room.

I usually take my inspiration from YHL, but their often-recommended white curtains with bamboo blinds aren’t really my style.

Then I ran across these in the top of my closet…

You read that right… these are various curtains I purchased for my old house in New Mexico in 2002 and never got around to hanging…

While we’re on the subject of visual clutter, I thought I’d share an old project involving my entertainment center. Sorry for the terrible image quality… these are before I started using the new camera... and it’s anyone’s guess why they’re at such an odd angle. ;)

So here’s the before shot. There’s an awful lot going on visually… you find your eyes kind of darting around from item to item with nowhere to “rest”. Also, the shadows at the back of each cubbyhole suck up a lot of light and make the whole space look dark.

Ha!

It’s slowly dawning on me that not all organizational tips are created equal. If I’d had a blog a couple of years ago, I’m sure I would have shared with enthusiasm my new shoe pocket organizer behind my bedroom door.

It’s shown here mostly empty only because I’ve been working hard to clear it out and didn’t take a proper before picture. It used to be home to many more random items and had every pocket bulging.

I should go ahead and mention now that Young House Love is my home improvement Bible. Sherry & John have meticulously documented step-by-step how to take your run-of-the mill space and make it into something fabulous: something yours. While I’m giving props, The Nester has also provided a lot of inspiration and taught me that it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful.

These guys have different styles and I like bits and pieces of both.

Yay! From the encouraging facebook comments and comments left on my updated entryway post, it looks like I should at least try the blogging thing for a while. If nothing else, I’m excited to have some kind of record of my progress. I have a bad habit of focusing on all the things yet undone and forget how far I’ve already come!

One thing I noticed from my first post is that my image quality could be considerably improved…

...that is the question.

I've been entertaining the idea of starting a blog for some time now. In fact, I have several random unfinished blog entries laying around on everything from cooking adventures to minor home improvement projects. It's never gotten off the ground because I wasn't sure there was really an audience... after all, I'm no expert, just learning as I go with the goal of transforming my space into a place I want to be.