Places and Spaces....

Those of you who know our house here, know it is not exactly huge.  What we lack in living space though, we make up for in shovels in the garden.  I swear our garden is about three times the size of the house - well that's how big is feels when it comes to weeding anyway.

Having a big garden does not help us in the slightest when it came to thinking about  finding a space to plant  our wee sprout (although.......wait a minute......sprouts....garden...hmmmmm)

With the house's funky floor-plan, we have a spare bedroom on the main floor and two in the basement.  Mike and I have become underground dwellers - reluctantly at first, but now very willingly, given our ever unpredictable climate.
The bedroom we do not sleep in is Mike's man cave.  He works from home but I hesitate to call it an office as it is SO much more than that.  It really is like the Tardis in many ways; open the door and you enter a world within worlds.  It's not a big room by any means but he manages to find room for an office, a gym (complete with full size static bike), a storage room (golf clubs, fishing rods, camping gear etc) AND a desk where he can do whatever he does with his arsenal of boys' toys (those of you who know him will know what I mean - those of you who don't - don't worry it's nothing illegal or smutty)

So, having decided that the Tardis would not be an appropriate place for a small person (not for a few years anyway) we were left with the hallway/corridor between it, our bedroom and the laundry room. Although I wouldn't say we are super fussy, I did actually want the 'space' to end up looking more like a room than just a 'space,' and given the fact my spatial awareness leave much to be desired, planning it out was a challenge to say the least.  Needless to say, it is a work in progress and I thought it would be fun to post some pictures along the way so you can see how it develops!  It's already in its third incarnation: in its first, the corridor had dark burgundy walls which, however you look at it do not create the illusion of space.  In its second, the wonderful crib, given to us by some dear friends, was positioned outside our bedroom door, in the perfect position for me to hit square on every night whilst sleepwalking to the loo a million times (nope - not bitter at all).  Hence the third and at this stage (but who knows) final incarnation.

Like I said - still a work in progress but this is how it looks so far........