Watch your steps

As our living room floors are partly rotten we have to find light but sizeable things to put to the places we don't whish our gests to step on (it is no use warning them - usually they already stand on the spot when we notice and find our voice to say something - better to cover the area with stuff so that there is no room to stand). The old sewing basket is a perfect tool for this use: it is very light but takes enough room and nobody is going to try sitting on it.

By the way, the floor almost caved at this spot when we moved the furniture and my husband had to stand on the rotten boards.