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    2 bits of help

    First, I need opinions on my mantle - to busy? out of balance?

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    I'm trying to get some basics done before my FSIL's shower this weekend...

    This is our new family organization wall - what should I add above the middle calendar? I was thinking a chalkboard or a sign but if its a sign what should it say? Any cute sayings? Because of the air vent it can't be very big...

    I'm also thinking about adding a removeable hook below each bulletin board for the kids - we don't currently have a mud room or somewhere easy for them to put their backpacks but when we redo the kitchen we'll have a mud room/area by the back door.

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    Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.
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    I think the picture is a little too big for that fireplace, but the items on it are pretty
    Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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      The picture isn't going anywhere. It might look that way in the photo but in the room (which is huge) it looks the right size. I'm more talking about the accent pieces.
      Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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      • #4
        I like the mantle. I'd move the flowers just a smidge toward the center so they're kind of on front of the edge of the picture.

        And I think the organization area is only in need of a bench, but it makes sense if you don't want to buy one for that space if your permanent mudroom will be elsewhere.
        Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
        Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

        “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
        ― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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        • #5
          I put command hooks above mine (little ones. Every week, I hole punch a piece of art or work for each kid, and stick it up there. I throw away what was there the previous week. My kids love it and it is easy and cute.
          -Deb
          Wife to EP, just trying to keep up with my FOUR busy kids!

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          • #6
            I am thinking about putting command hooks below for backpacks, I didn't think about above. That would work because they couldn't reach them and rip them off.
            Wife to NSG out of training, mom to 2, 10 & 8, and a beagle with wings.

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            • #7
              I took 2 eye hooks and screwed them into the wall and strung picture wire between them. The artwork hangs from that in the hallway with clothes pins.
              Kris

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              • #8
                Hooks for backpacks/ lunchboxes and maybe coats if you don't have a mud room.

                A clock?
                Key hook?

                Definitely need something up top. I like the idea of a wire to clip artwork on. Hobby lobby has little decorative clothes pins tt might work.
                Cranky Wife to a Peds EM in private practice. Mom to 5 girls - 1 in Heaven and 4 running around in princess shoes.

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