The Nerve Center

Now that we are good friends I would like to introduce you to our families 'nerve center.' In designing our current home it was a must on my list of fit ins. I am so pleased with it. (Especially because it was my idea way before the design world started calling them, 'drop zones.')

Here we keep the calender, and a home made bulletin board (to soon be enlarged!) with reminders about scouting events, little girl crayon drawings, wedding announcements and a myriad of other Grange related information that has to be rotated on a seasonal basis. On the counter we have on display; an IKEA pot full of pens and pencils, the dull sissors, the change box, (my blue ribbon winning ceramics project from junior year at MC) notebooks, the glass fruit display, candle melty thingy, tissues, and today for some reason, a hammer. Note also the many electrical outlets for charging phones.

Under the counter are four large drawers and two cupboards that hold a families necessary clutter. Tape, paper clips, phone books, random small tools, rubber bands, you know what I am talking about. The girls have their very own drawer for coloring books and crayons, small toys and 'pack the church bag' type accessories. My color swatch collection, design books, paper products, the first aid and power outage emergency Rubbermaid boxes, an atlas, light bulbs and many other good things find their home here. It is a nice place to live.

I hope that this is the first in a little installment I would like to call "Part of the Family." I want to catalogue things in our home that represent who we are and how we live. The real stuff. Not just the pretty stuff. Coming soon, The Sofa, and The Bathtub.