Living in a log cabin in the country has its perks and its challenges. One of the challenges is that the side rooms are not very large. In other to create more storage and work space, you have to make tall verticals rather than being able to spread out.
When I moved to this log cabin nearly two years ago, I had to give up my spacious office in my apartment in Knoxville, Tennessee. Of course, I was happy to be living and married to the man I love. I was a little regretful to having to down-size my belongings and work space. Not only that, the room that is my office slopes. When sitting down on the computer chair, you slide away from the computer desk. You actually have to climb a little hill to position yourself in front of the computer. The room has other challenges as well. It is not my favorite room.
A little over a year after moving here, I sadly got diagnosed with breast cancer. The happy ending to that is that I have already completed all chemo treatments and the double mastectomy. Even though I have five more radiation treatments that will end on November 5, 2010, I am officially in remission. I much prefer to use the term cancer-free; however, that is not politically correct. The term “in remission” has too much fear factor for me. So in private, I state that I am cancer free. In front of doctors and some others, I state I am “in remission.” In any case, there is no more cancer in my body. So to me, I am cancer free.
Due to having had this condition, notice the past tense, two friends of ours are going to make a beautiful gift to us. They are going to tear out the floor boards in that office and re-do the floor from scratch. This means they will also have to tear out the built-in bed and the two built-in dressers. I cannot tell you how thrilled I will be to see all three furniture pieces go. That means that I will get to re-do that room in its entirety. I am so happy and grateful.
The only sad part is that I had owned some beautiful nightstands, dressers, computer desks, etc. that would have been ideal for this office space. The nightstands that I owned would have been so ideal for storage of a lot of my storytelling materials. Sigh! By the way, this room also doubles as my dressing room. Not ever imagining that this opportunity would ever happen nor that I would be diagnosed and cured from cancer, I sold off all that furniture on Craigslist. Double Sigh!
By the way, the nightstand in the picture is not the same as the one that I sold; however, there are similarities.
Of course, the fun part is that I get the fun of picking out the perfect furniture to renovate this room exactly the way I most desire. I am so excited about that part.
So the sequel to this story will soon be posted where I find one or more perfect replacement pieces for my new office. Woo-hoo!
