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This evokes fond memories of a similar treehouse or -platform in an oak in my parents garden. We kids in the neighborhood made it ourselves, using scrap wood and some screws and nails left from our dads 'projects', so it was never stable enough to have railings (maybe we also just ran out of scrap wood and nails), but sometimes we used a branch above and a blanket as a tent/roof. We spent a wonderful time there and astonishingly nothing more serious than an occasional splinter or a black nail happened.

If homes are a reflection of who their inhabitants are or aspire to, then they are a work in progress and can't be perfect. Sometimes I come into a home that I am grateful I don't have to live in and share their owner's life, sometimes I come into a home I wish I could adopt some of its flair and want to be friends with its owner.
And as dirt is unhealthy it doesn't count as an allergen, so I don't have any allergies, food or design-related. It's just that I don't like some things and wouldn't have them at my home or in my kitchen. Also I can't have too much of the same, even if I like it, e.g. after a day of cookie-baking I need a spicy curry, after a day spent in a modern minimalist surrounding I like to go to a cozy restaurant.
The only thing I always have the urge to change is toilet-paper hung the wrong way. I fix it, I don't run away with rashes.

If you take a look at the site, there are different options for the chair's legs.

For years I had been passing a quince tree in my neighborhood, longingly looking at its fruit, one day I took courage and asked the owner if I could pick and pay just a few fruit. Half an hour later I had a basket full of quince for free. Every spring I'm allowed to cut a branch off of my neighbors magnolia and I know of two ladies who are permitted to clip off of my holly come Christmas. If people just asked...

Whoa, that's contagious! Made me smile and dance, too! Thanks for all the inspiration, and: I got the chairs done!

Wow, it really was fun! And while finally uploading all the photos I realized how much was accomplished during the last four weeks, phew!
Thank you so very much for igniting some improvements, it got me going to tackle some things avoided for a long time. And there's still more in the pipeline...

Last weekend I finally got through the piles of magazines, reducing them to three folders, and offered almost all of my CDs on Amazon today. Phew! Years ago my sister got all my vinyls, as she is the only one I know who still has a record-player.
Books are a lesser problem here, once a year we have a book-swap-party with some friends, everyone brings the books no longer needed and picks whatever he/she likes. The books that nobody of us wants anymore are brought to the library.
And: I got the flowers today, yesterday I just didn't have the time to buy some.

So we do have a functioning landing-strip, more or less. There is a coat hanger, the keys are in a bowl near the door, there is space dedicated to shoes and handbags and the mail gets sorted daily. But we also have too many things landing there, some bulky stuff like the sports gear and some of these things even seem permanently landed (stranded?). How do I get the family to land but not to settle their things in the entryway?

I'll do it for black sheep though I hate cleaning the kid's room most. Such a mess there!

To add a little bit more info on European sleeping habits: in middle and northern Europe people usually sleep under duvets (with regularly washed duvet-covers) and no top sheets but maybe blankets on top (in winter). Around the Mediterranean a top sheet and a blanket are common. But here in Europe I've never heard of anyone using a top sheet AND a duvet.