A bunch more around the house stuff

Lisa and I did a bunch more things around the house:

• moved the two Pier 1 desks into the living room at either end - making the living room much nicer, and giving us both work areas. The big monitor is on Lisa's desk, mine is more a crafting work area.
  
• moved all the chests out of the living room (one went to the bedroom, one to the dining room)
• moved the treadle into the living room in front of the stairs, beside the TV -- now a focal point of the room instead of a space waster in the mudroom
• bought and placed a new area rug in the mudroom - replacing the carpet remnant we were using, the new rug is larger, truly rectangular, and won't fray
• bought a Husky pantry-style work area storage cabinet for the mudroom - give tons more storage space for things like goat meds and games. I think we're leaning towards getting more pieces in this series - they have base cabinets and wall cabinets, as well.
• rearranged the mud room - the log bench is now across from the door, so the dogs don't jump on it.
• bought an Ikea boot tray for drying buckets. Put it in the bottom bathroom.
• went on an organizing binge - Lisa reorganized the nursery, now seemingly empty, as well as the upstairs odd closet. All of the boxes are now unpacked (the first house that we've managed to do this in under a year).
• We took a load of stuff off to the thrift store, and threw out a bunch of junk. There'll be a big load of garbage this week.
• A bunch of reorganization of the kitchen - I shelf papered one of the unused cupboards while Lisa was gone, and now it houses a bunch of cleaning supplies.
• I'm probably forgetting some stuff - there was a bunch done.

Again, the difference this stuff makes is incredible.

We also bought a bunch of device box insulators for receptacles and switches - a bunch of the boxes in our house leak cold air in the winter. I think we might install some of those today.