A SHELF OR TWO

Looking organised but early days, still items to add when they are found.

The shelves are slowly filling up.

SUNDAY THE FIRST OF JUNE

 

So a new month starts.     As I mentioned in the week, I have started on the doll studio big tidy ! and it will be big !  Not a lot got done yesterday in the studio due to an unexpected visit from my eldest daughter, so time was spent enjoying a chat out under the gazebo in the warmth. 

However before she arrived and Paul went off to his bowls, I had helped Paul move the big chest of drawers into the corner by the window.

So apart from that, not a lot got done yesterday but in a way that may have been for the best, because I woke at 6.30 this morning and was wide awake, as in my body was not interested in any more sleep ! Which meant I had time to think about the studio and placement of items.

Now I am five two or I was in my younger days and a problem with the dolls house being on top of a tall chest of drawers, is I could not access the attic, without standing on a ladder or some sort of step.

Also having the dolls house on top of the drawers meant that nice big space was unavailable and I really wanted a bedroom setting.

So one of the first things I did once the clock hit 8 and I got up and when downstairs, was to go out to the studio with a tape measure to confirm my new plans would work.

Which was to bring in a small pine cupboard, we had been planning to sell on as we didn't think it was needed, and place it between the window and doors, if it was the right size to take the dolls house. 

Well the dolls house is 27 inches wide by 14 deep and the little cupboard is 25 inches wide by 16 deep., almost perfect fit.

I explained my idea to Paul and he said he'd cut a piece of wood to place on the cupboard slightly wider than the dolls house, so it would sit safely, which he did.

Above shown in it's new place. Not only does it give me the space on top of the drawers, I have now also gained a small cupboard for more storage .

So eager was I to see if the space would work for the bedroom setting, Paul put the back board up for me and I had the bed quickly in place and the wardrobe etc.

Well lit by the window.

A little rearranging of the chest of drawers and making up of the bed and the space works well.

A couple of pieces of paper to see if it needs a wallpaper to pretty up the wall? Maybe but would need to have a white background to keep the area light.

And no ! I don't need a chamber pot under that bed ! What I will need is a valance.

So I was originally planning on having just one moveable set of drawers at the end, but have placed another on top because the 'wall' behind the bed reduces the light a little anyway. I'm hoping I'll be able to still move it all together if needed but I'll not find that out until much later in the tidying.

My next task is to empty the display cupboard and re arrange the shelves, adding one back in and lowering the room setting that is inside at the top since again it's a little high when trying to take photos and is also stopping the extra shelf going back in.

Once that's done I can start on this !! Hopefully some of this will have been moved as I sort out the display unit and now I also have the small cupboard.

Oh and lets not forget that all those boxes etc are still outside on the patio table ! But hey I did remove one thing from there ! The chest of drawers for the bedroom setting, so technically speaking I've even made a start on that. . . . .

So as no name was todays headliner, due to not having time to take another photo, cannot take the chance of getting side tracked !

Have a lovely wonderful fun filled month ahead , don't forget those doll photo's for the fifth and remember to relax and enjoy some doll time.

Dee