What do you get with baby steps?

You eventually get big girl (or boy) steps. The steps when everything suddenly falls into place, it all makes sense, and you can walk with confidence. I took a big girl step last weekend when I shuffled my furniture around and discovered what my apartment had been missing all along. A sense of spaciousness and flow.

I had been living like this for about 6 months:



No, it wasn't terrible, awful, or anything... but it never felt right. I never felt "at home" and I knew there was something missing but I couldn't put my finger on it.
After months of being too busy to actually accomplish anything real, I was finally able to do some real life rearranging last weekend. And this is what I discovered:



Words can't describe how ecstatic I was when all of the pieces fell into place.
It's not finished in any sense of the word and I'm not sure that a home is every really "finished," but it is right. It feels right, it makes sense and I finally feel AT HOME in my own home. I can't wait to see how much more awesome it can get. :)