The best we could do

 How it started:

It's a mess

The MOTU have come out, opening up some new spaces for ponies.

How it's going:

Mostly retro G1 stuff is now gathered on the vintage side.

I'm calling the week in the Cave a win, although I wasn't able to acomplish quite as much as I wanted.  Moving anything in the Cave starts a domino effect that only ends when you either find room for everything or give up and abandon it on whatever flat surface is clear.  By the end of the day on Monday the room was truly a mess and it was difficult to find enough floor space to get back to the door and I didn't think I'd be leaving the room better than I found it.

There are a few vintage pieces on top as well.

On Tuesday I decided to bring everything pony-related still outside the Cave into the room.  Although this exacerbated the space issue in the short term, it meant that everything was localized within the room and could be placed.

The special G3s have a better display space now.

I quickly realized that I wasn't going to be able to get everything placed exactly as I wanted this week.  We have plans to add two more Kalax cubes under the large display table, but these aren't currently available locally. This necessarily limited some of what I could do, especially as the space these new cubes will occupy is currently filled with odds and ends and G4s still in package.

The BAB plush fit perfectly on the modern side.

I had planned out what I wanted to do with certain areas of the Cave however, so I focused on these first.  One thing that has long bothered me is having the Build a Bear G4 plush on the vintage side of the room. I cleared off the top of the shelves on the modern side to make room for the BAB plush, which allowed me to display more retro G1 items on the Vintage side.  I was also able to finally develop a display space for my party supplies.

Party supplies out on display

Toward the end of the week my focus changed to finding space for everything, even if it was only temporary. When the other two Kalax cubes have been added I'll be able to split the four under the large table between storage and display.  Right now, only a few of the cubes are being used as displays while most are temporary storage.  At least I was able to find the floor!

Reference, books, binders, and bits and piece.s

Overall, I'm happy with how the clean up went.  It's nowhere near perfect and there's plenty of stuff still on the floor, on the table, and just generally in the wrong place.  But a lot of other things are displayed now, or at least better organized than they have been for the last several months.  There's room to move and do things, like photographing new additions to the collection, and I'll be able to sneak in and do small adjustments now that there's room to breathe.

A collection room is never done.

Elf