Wide Open Spaces

Square footage. It's a hot commodity and I finally feel like I'm luxuriating in it. 

You see, I moved from a very small place. I mean S-M-ALLLLL. A 1920's townhouse in a little historic village.  Very charming, but less than 750 sq ft. Depending on where you live in the world, that could be considered livin' large or downright claustrophobic. To me? It became claustrophobic in the past couple years.

Moving into my new place, I have only gained a little over 100 square feet of space, but it is a better layout, so I feel like I've gained one thousand square feet! In my old place, I could literally stand in the middle of my living room, stretch my arms out and that would be the approximate floor space between my couch and the fire place...and I have about a 5 foot 6 inch wing span. Not very conducive to  exercise videos, that's for sure. There was no "grapevine" going on there. 

But now? I come home from work and sprawl out on all that acreage and it feels a-mazing.

Look at all that emptiness.

I love it.

I will say, though, that I don't have a lot of wall space, so I went with the gallery style of late in the living room.

All the artwork on the wall is painted, cross stitched or photographed by me, except the painting on the top row directly in the middle (thrift store acquisition) and the lithograph directly to it's left (gift from my big sister by the amazing artist, Lebadang).

Now, let me go lay on that big empty space and watch some T.V.