I am still redoing rooms, and moving things about

A couple years back, I decided I needed a big hutch type piece to use in the kitchen for extra storage. I found a large base cabinet, and a tall book shelf with glass doors that worked.

But wasn't just quite right.

THIS piece is very much right!!!

And very old and well made.  Look at the construction of the drawer!

This is what I had before (it is now in the studio, which means a big shuffle up out there and a cabinet from the studio being moved to the breezeway, and well, more shuffling).

See, it holds a lot, but wasn't just quite right. I did like the way I could see all the of the dishes behind glass, but all of this and more fit into the newer, larger hutch.

I might miss the display area behind glass when it is time to dust.  The new one has much, much less of that.

But it holds soooooo much, much more inside the doors and drawers below that I am very happy with it.

My Apple Watch has been broken for months. And I have been too cheap to replace it. But when I saw this, I didn't have second thoughts about being cheap, I'd looked for so many years for a hutch that had this much storage space.

Plus, I have been on an organizing, cleaning, and storage redo blowout lately.

When this came into the house, I decided to take every single thing out of all of the other kitchen cabinets and rearrange every bit of it. 

Maybe it is my way of dealing with grief.

Maybe it is from being cooped up in the house for so many months.

Either way, my many redos have been helpful.  I've fixed up Ryan's room, the gazebo area, both little grand fairies' rooms, the breezeway, part of the studio, now this.  I'm running out of house to redo.

Even though I knew this hutch was ideal when I first saw it, and was ready to buy it in snap with no thought, I did have a horrid moment when I realized how heavy it was, and how many other big pieces of furniture would have to be moved to make space for it.

And remembering that Ryan, my "Machine", was gone.  He was so strong, and so helpful, that was his nickname. He just kept going, working hard and making it look easy.

He was always around to carry and move things for me. 

I was knocked over with pain as these thoughts went through my mind.  

There are going to be a lot of those moments. A lot of that pain.

But we go on, don't we? 

My very strong, older grand fairies came over to help. We used pads to slide the piece through the house. Between the two girls and my husband, they hefted it out of the truck and lifted the large top piece onto the base once they got it into the kitchen.  It is even heavier than it looks, and we all missed Ryan while it was being moved.

 

 

 

Comments

[Blanca M.]

Beautiful hutch! I love your stuff similar to mine.
First time visiting your blog.

[Marilee McKelvey]

What a lovely new hutch! Great to have it, sad to know Ryan's not there to help you move it.
I love your old hutch as a studio piece -- think of all the pretty vintage flowers you can show-off in it!
Take care my friend.

[Terry Neibaur]

It is truly beautiful Karla. I bet it was major work getting things rearranged, but it looks great!

[Marilyn Parker]

Hey Sweet Karla ~~ love seeing your new hutch.
I always liken those unexpected grief moments to being smacked unexpectedly in the back of the head.
That part will get a little better, the smacks won't seem so hard, and you'll be able to smile a little after the tears.
Our boy has been gone almost 6 years now, and I have tears as I send this to you.