Cleaning Out the Sewing Room

Today's big effort was cleaning out the sewing room so Chris can start the renovation. But before I cleaned out the sewing room I had to reorganize the back bedroom & consolidate the things piled in there back in March 2023 when I was getting ready for Anne & Catie's long term visit. I did not do a good job of packing things efficiently in that portion of the room at that time. I started that today. I forgot to take a true "before" photo so the series below starts with the end result of the March 2023 work; which is close to what it has been since then.

03/2023.

This evening.

 

A few days ago I posted photos of what the southerly portion of the room looked like when we moved the desk in for Kai. Here is what it looks like now with some things from the sewing room moved in. 

Still a work in progress.

Getting things out of the sewing room was more of a challenge. I had moved things in there back in 2016 when my household goods were 1st moved to Hawaiʻi. Over the years I have taken a couple of random things out & put them in to use. I also did a little rearranging in January 2023 when the house needed to be repainted and a portion of the exterior wall needed to be repaired to satisfy the continental office of my home insurance company (the local office was understanding of my situation). I had to move things away from the portion of wall that was repaired. Though it isn't packed tightly, there is still a lot of stuff in there; half of it was my grandmother's things from other portions of the house that were moved in there for the initial renovation in early 2016. The challenge was not so much getting things out, but having to clean things up before I moved them out since that room had not really been cleaned since things were moved in! I found a bunch of old gecko eggs that were laid in the old curtain rods; it looks like they are the optimum size for the eggs. As part of the clean up I also got rid of some things.

Morning.

Midday.

Late afternoon; bag on right is for trash.

Morning.

Late afternoon; same trash bag.

Old house gecko eggs.

But there are some specific things that were in the sewing room, that even though I did not use them since they were put in there, they are not things to be thrown out. They include a couple of my father's fishing poles; we would come to Kohala every summer for him to spend his vacation fishing with my grandparents & other relatives here. Also stored is the "cherrywood" dining table that will be part of the furnishings for the cat room. My 5-drawer flat file is also in there; I have unfinished artwork stored in it as well as prints of some of my other artwork, posters, & maps. There are also numerous pieces of framed artwork waiting for an empty wall. Two things in there from my grandparents' era that I want to keep are my grandmother's old Singer treadle sewing machine & the old rocking chair.

"Cherrywood" table, legs are in the green bundle.

Dad's fishing poles.

Flat file.

Artwork.

In the late afternoon I checked in with Chris, he is having to delay the start of the renovation until he finishes the job he has already started. It has been delayed because of the rainy days that we have been having. So tomorrow will not be the start of the renovation. Which bought me a little more time for thoroughly cleaning out the sewing room. I spent the evening focused on the upcoming Leeward Planning Commission meeting on Thursday.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Linda, Stephanie, & Louis! A me ka Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanaʻo makahiki ʻekahi e Gavin & Jennifer!