{"id":27,"date":"2006-08-01T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/archives\/27"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:08:53","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our house is a constant work in progress. It’s an average size, we have had bigger and we have had smaller.\u00a0 I am not a fan of large homes because I like the cozy feel of a cottage, and the truth of the matter is I just don’t want to clean a big house.\u00a0 But we are a family of five and we need a high functioning house.\u00a0 When you have a lot of people and two big dogs, well a house can feel small fast.\u00a0 So I have been on a mission to purge.\u00a0 Kids accumulate so much stuff and they don’t like to part with it.\u00a0 As we slowly redo this house, I am finding that it feels really good to get rid of stuff.\u00a0 It’s addictive.<\/p>\n

So here is a corner of my home, our front hallway.\u00a0 I am actually liking this space at the moment, even though it isn’t done- so much work still to do.\u00a0 Thankfully I enjoy the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"hallway\"<\/a>\u00a0\"shelf\"<\/a> \"log<\/a><\/p>\n

and the latest log cabin pillow which is actually for Cole’s room but hasn’t made it up there yet.<\/p>\n

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Our house is a constant work in progress. It’s an average size, we have had bigger and we have had smaller.\u00a0 I am not a fan of large homes because I like the cozy feel of a cottage, and the truth of the matter is I just don’t want to clean a big house.\u00a0 But we are a family of five and we need a high functioning house.\u00a0 When you have a lot of people and two big dogs, well a house can feel small fast.\u00a0 So I have been on a mission to purge.\u00a0 Kids accumulate so much stuff and they don’t like to part with it.\u00a0 As we slowly redo this house, I am finding that it feels really good to get rid of stuff.\u00a0 It’s addictive. So here is a corner of my home, our front hallway.\u00a0 I am actually liking this space at the moment, even though it isn’t done- so much work still to do.\u00a0 Thankfully I enjoy the process.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and the latest log cabin pillow which is actually for Cole’s room but hasn’t made it up there yet. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elisalou"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20765,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/20765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}