Where'd That Couch Go?

On Friday afternoon our living room looked like this:

On Sunday afternoon it looked like this:

So you may be asking, "Where'd that couch go?" Well, we've had our eye on Macy's Milo Sectional for quite a while now (I wrote about it here). I check the Macy's site every so often to see if it's on sale and got pretty excited when I saw this:

Roberto and I talked about it and decided that we'd put our couch set on Craigslist: if it sold before the sale was over, we'd buy the sectional. Well, it only took about a week before it was out our door and we had a little more money to put toward the Milo. So now we're just waiting for it to be delivered, which we found out won't happen till' mid July or so ('cause they didn't have our color in stock):

In the meantime we've moved our two Danish lounge chairs from the other side of the room to where the couch used to be (so we have something to sit on while we watch TV). I'll be sure to share pics when the Milo arrives...

Stuff With Which to Organize Other Stuff

If you're like me, you're probably always trying new ways to combat paper clutter in your house. Boxes, baskets, trays—they've all come and gone as paper organizers at our place. My most recent paper-related irk was the menus piling up in one of our kitchen drawers. They were piled up on top of other stuff—loose keys, condiments from take-out meals—and I found myself having to sift through the entire drawer just to find one thing.

So when I saw this post over at Mini Manor Blog, I was immediately sold on Ashli's method for take-out menu organization. I headed to Staples to buy one of the Martha Stewart Avery Pockets (there in the bottom right below).

I also saw these nifty little blue boxes at the Martha display at Staples and thought they'd be a great way to store keys and other loose ends in the drawer. I used a promotional coupon and got 40% off the pocket (sweet). My shopping trip ended with a visit to Target, where I spotted this great teal paper tray.

The pocket went up on the inside of a kitchen cabinet and I dropped the menus into it.

The blue boxes went into the drawer and were a perfect fit for odds and ends.

And the paper tray ended up on the office desk. I figure it will be a good temporary holding place for mail/documents until I can go through them and file away important stuff in our file box.