Bare Nekked Kitchen.....and a bit more of our schoolroom

As requested, a picture of our kitchen sans schoolroom. Doesn't it look big and airy? This table was our first kitchen table after marriage. We used it for years! Then for several years it was our daughter's "desk" in her bedroom, until this summer when a generous blog reader gave her a real desk! And now it has returned to the kitchen. Obviously our entire family can't fit around it, but it does provide an extra place to eat a snack, do schoolwork, or pay bills. I'm thinking maybe the window needs a curtain now that the whiteboard is gone. It looks kindof lonely. What do you think?



And down in our schoolroom we added this shelf to keep the ocean boxes on. Remember the goal was "a place for everything and everything in its place"? There was no place for the ocean boxes and since they are a year long cumulative project they really needed a place. So now they have one. Below the ocean boxes you can see two more racks for 2 children's workboxes.


We also needed a place to hang our timeline, and we hit upon the idea to hang it in front of our laundry room doorway! This is at the foot of the stairs, the schoolroom is to the right and our unfinished laundry room/storage area is to the left behind the timeline. We can take it down when school is over for the day. You can see our timeline work prior to 1700 was non existent. :-)