Last night we had a lovely dinner at our friend Cathy who lives East of us in a lovely house with a beautiful garden, she knows all her plants and takes good care of them. She even gave me a great sprig of Sage, what an elegant perfume sage gives, its a full, rich and creamy, I am thinking in Italian morbido meaning pretty much what I just said. She cooked corn on the cob it had been years since we had any and a lovely roasted chicken from a William Sonoma recipe.
Today we placed furniture in our new apartment, I have counted so far 15 boxes of stuff we have either given away or taken to the auctioneer, not mentioning a room full of furniture. The books are next in the sorting out, we already did a first exercise before we left Rome and we will do more again, books as lovely as they are we will never read again, so let someone else enjoy them. Then all the framed stuff, too many things and so many we no longer care for, they too have to go. I am glad we are doing this because it needed to be done and should have been done a long time ago.
The apartment is starting to look like home give us another 2 to 3 weeks and all should be back in order.
Then: our former apartment in Rome.
Now: our new apartment in Ottawa, not yet decorated we only moved in 8 days ago.
Some familiar touches and a few boxes still, a work in progress.
Today we placed furniture in our new apartment, I have counted so far 15 boxes of stuff we have either given away or taken to the auctioneer, not mentioning a room full of furniture. The books are next in the sorting out, we already did a first exercise before we left Rome and we will do more again, books as lovely as they are we will never read again, so let someone else enjoy them. Then all the framed stuff, too many things and so many we no longer care for, they too have to go. I am glad we are doing this because it needed to be done and should have been done a long time ago.
The apartment is starting to look like home give us another 2 to 3 weeks and all should be back in order.
Some familiar touches and a few boxes still, a work in progress.
The living room looks lovely. Great work! all the furniture in your Rome apt was already in place when you arrived so you weren't faced with the same amount of work.
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CP not quite, we had to work on the Rome apartment also to make it look this good. Previous occupant had a different configuration.
ReplyDeleteIt took us months to unpack. I hope yours goes up sooner!
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