See If You Can Figure It Out

Toby, Tulip and I drove up to Chocorua just for the afternoon yesterday to try and figure out a new pantry space in the house--and it was confusing!

We entered the kitchen and saw a walkway sectioned off by plastic which had allowed Ned to remove three huge truckfuls of yucky debris.  I was so glad all that had been taken away before we arrived.

 

 

Then, through the plastic looking out into the dining room  we slowly (very) began to understand Ned's idea

Extend the dining room to almost where this photo ends in the foreground,

 

 

 

make a closet with doors out of this old under-the-stairs, used to be mouse-ridden cubby hole.  Ned is calling it "deep storage."  It'll give the dining room fireplace mantel finally a place to extend to and look symmetrical.

And, okay, this is hard:  there'll be a cupboard extending out from the brown wall, a book case in front of it, one opposite it, and a straight line from the mural bathroom to the dining room (that sounds kind of horrible but it'll work).

 

 

and back towards the kitchen from where Toby and Ned are standing an actual smaller in foot-size but way large in shelf size pantry.  Who wants to have room to dance around in a pantry anyway?

 

We had to hang table cloths from the ceiling to finally figure out where the new walls would be. I think it'll be great--more storage, more space, less like a wriggly maze trying to get from one room to another.

 

 

The one being totally not confused and quite happy, right in front of the fireplace where a dog should be--Tulip.