LET THERE BE LIGHTness

This afternoon I was struck by a need to really, really clean up my kitchen counters.  In a condo like ours, that means moving stuff you don't have room for in your kitchen/office to other parts of your apartment in which you don't have any room either.

In his heart, Dave really likes an ascetic, zen look.  In my heart, I see a piece of counter or wall that has nothing on it and plan a shopping trip.  Yet we continue to be happy together.  In my effort to compromise, and to bring some asceticism to the room where I keep my coffee, wine and chocolate, my laptop ended up in the bedroom, where so far, it seems content.   It may actually be a good thing to separate the laptop from the goodies; it's certainly not a bad thing to be able to sit up in bed and write a post in the dark in the middle of the night.   We'll see how that pans out.

This was my kitchen earlier in the year:

From the living room looking in; from the hallway:

Note the appealing clutter  

 

Note the appealing clutter

I NO LONGER HAVE APPEALING CLUTTER, AND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM THIS EXERCISE:

• Don't try to take photos in the middle of the night with a laptop webcam when your arms are wobbly
• Don't expect to go out into the kitchen in the middle of the night and not want a little something tasty
• As soon as you do something inspiring like get zennish in your kitchen, your husband will be inspired to clean out his bike saddlebags, leaving mysterious and dangerous-looking pieces of equipment and old maps on your ohm-ish counters

I may or may not try to capture the new kitchen look to post tomorrow, but probably, realistically, I'll have moved on to another equally earth-shaking task.