Now things are calming down, and we can stop and smell the roses (and hopefully the sawdust and lacquer).

In an effort to get rid of a lot of what hasn’t worked, we began trolling craigslist and eBay for things that would. E made some incredible finds. We paid obscenely low prices for our favorite 1950s and 1960s dressers and credenzas (or as our friend Wes refers to them, “that boring Mad Men shit”).

Our front room is starting to resemble a furniture warehouse, as we try to make room elsewhere for some of these great scores.

First stop on the project train? A room-by-room, whole house purge of items. I’d love to go through with big black trash bags. I’ll settle for E’s stock of Rubbermaids.