All the Frills: Awkward Areas

My house is sort of oddly laid out. When you enter it, whether from the front door or the garage, you find yourself in a long, narrow hallway that’s actually a floor unto itself – at one end there’s a staircase leading to the basement and at the other there’s one leading upstairs to the main living area and also to a further staircase leading to the bedrooms on the top floor. Anyways, the entryway level is not really large enough to have any furniture on it, per se, but I also wanted it to not be just a grubby place for shoe storage. So I tried to make it both functional (with shoe racks, shoe storage, and a place for coats) and inviting (with a few decorative items). What I’d really love to do is find a way to fit a narrow shoe bench or something down here…

Weekend Reading 

• Meet my new hero.
  
• I know we’re past Valentine’s Day now but this is a short and interesting piece on its origins.
  
• So this art installation calls out the hypocrisy and general disgustingness of male legislators when it comes to women’s bodies…and it’s awesome.
  
• Ain’t no burn like a Golden Girls burn.
  
• This article on the history of the tampon is a really interesting read.