Open Door Policy

After ten years of living in our sweet little farmhouse, we finally discovered the perfect use for our living room. 

In all the years we've lived here the living room has been nothing more than a glorified hallway to the upstairs. 

Our house is a hybrid - 1865 in the front, 1970s in the back. When they added on two stories to the back of the house, they enlarged the kitchen and added a family room. Upstairs the two back bedrooms got full height ceilings and a second bathroom was put in. 


It's a roomy place but nowhere in the house can you take in the staggeringly beautiful view across the lake valley, EXCEPT if you're standing in the dining room or the living room. 

So, we moved our online business downstairs - packing table, photography set-up, inventory shelves. We know it seems an odd move and most of our friends think we're crazy. But I know but once curtains go up on the French doors and it's all hidden from the "public" part of the house, it'll be perfect. 

We've spent weeks trying to figure out how to make it work. It's called for major purging and a whole lot of schlepping, but miraculously it all fits now and the light there is glorious. I couldn't have a more perfect work space and I couldn't be happier.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. 

John Barrymore