the perfect is the enemy of the good

Needs-Fixed-November: this is the month to make time for repairs, to start working at the multitudinous projects that keep being put off. Too much perfectionism has kept many things from happening here that would make life better.

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My original idea/sketch, and the space behind the door

With that in mind, today's project involves an old medicine cabinet and the bedroom wall. It has been leaning against the wall for at least a year and a half, the idea being to attach it to the wall between the nightstand shelves and the bedroom door, as a kind of wall-hung dressing table. Something tidier than hanging my earrings on plumbers chain pinned to the wall. Storage for the various bits that end up on the nightstand, like my wooden comb, and the box of hairbands, and suchlike.

It doesn't really need to be painted beforehand, though that would be the best way. Not certain what color to paint it, since the bedroom is still also unpainted (after almost five years!) The cabinet needs a new handle, and the inside made delightful instead of dingy, but all that will come if only a start is made.

Once it is up on the wall, the pegs on the bedroom door are awkwardly placed, and that needs removed. The things stored there are embarrassingly dusty. What does belong on the back of the bedroom door? Surely not old handwoven scarves, however lovely, if being vivid purple they are never worn any more. A belt from the leather shop in Harvard Square where I worked as a young woman, the embroidered woolen hood from my first year in the SCA, a blockprinted scarf from the trading circle at OCF back when it really was for trading; these are sentimental textiles, not currently in use. Instead, the back of the door could hold a hook for a robe or two, perhaps, rather than a clutter of memories...