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kareinaI have always loved to re-arrange furniture. I can remember as a child periodically cleaning and re-arranging all of the furniture in my room and then proudly calling mom in to give her a tour. I don't seem to be able to leave things as they are for too long--if I don't pick up and move house then I start to feel compelled to do a deep cleaning and rearranging.
I have been feeling like rearranging stuff for a while now, and had sort of planned to do a minor change. Our bedroom also contains the computer desks. Lately I have been feeling like it is too warm in here--sleeping under a feather comforter means that I sometimes wake up sweaty. The obvious solution to that which came to mind was to move the computers to the corner where the bed is, and the bed over next to the window, so that I could enjoy sleeping next to the fresh air from the little ventilation window, which tends to be open unless it gets really cold out (like more than -15), which it hasn't done yet this winter. But we have been busy, and hadn't gotten to it yet. Today was the first day we would have had a chance to make that change.
However, we wound up doing an even more substantial change. Earlier in the week he happened to notice on the local "for sale" web page an ad for a loom. A rather substantial floor loom. The guy was only asking 1000 SEK (which at today's exchange rate is €112 or $143 USD), so we gave him a call. He wasn't able to meet us that day, but suggested today instead. So this morning we went over and picked it up. It is huge. Took some effort to get the disassembled pieces into the car, because they barely fit.
The pieces are still in the car, because we had no place in the apartment where it might fit. So once we got it home (about noon) we sat down with the computer and spent a few hours trying different configurations of furniture using scale model drawings in CorelDraw. Eventually, we decided that Plan H was a winner, and we started to work. Around midnight we decided that we were done enough for the day.
What did we do?
*emptied the bookshelves which had filled one wall of the livingroom, and created piles, organized by type of book, and combined his and hers books in the same category into the same piles.
*Moved one of the bookshelves into the doorway between the living room and kitchen, facing into the kitchen, to give us additional storage space there (the cookbooks went onto the bottom of that shelf), and another shelf behind it, facing into the livingroom, upon which we put the hardcover fiction books.
*In the corner between those shelves and the walls we stacked the boxes of darkroom stuff that we will eventually get rid of, covered them with a cloth, and put our stuffed animals on top.
*moved the bed temporarily into the hallway while we put the rest of the bookshelves into the corner where the bed was--the little one at a 45 degree angle in the corner, with two shelves on each wall next to it.
*then it was possible to move the bed into the livingroom, against the wall where the shelves used to be.
*moved the rocking chair into the kitchen between the table and the fabric shelves
In theory the loom will fit in the room which is now an office, in the space between the shelves and the computers. We will find out tomorrow.
The living room is now also the bedroom, and the room looks much larger. And the bed is next to the window, so I get that ventilation window next to the bed that I wanted.
All in all I think I will be happy. It is slightly less convenient to get to the kitchen, as we now have only one path instead of two, but I will really like the extra shelf space in the kitchen! And we have more room in the shelves in the office, too, because he had some little stack-able drawers on the shelves, and they are now standing in a stack next to the shelves.
Now it is 02:00, and I should go get some sleep. I did take breaks to do my yoga and read my 1000...
I have been feeling like rearranging stuff for a while now, and had sort of planned to do a minor change. Our bedroom also contains the computer desks. Lately I have been feeling like it is too warm in here--sleeping under a feather comforter means that I sometimes wake up sweaty. The obvious solution to that which came to mind was to move the computers to the corner where the bed is, and the bed over next to the window, so that I could enjoy sleeping next to the fresh air from the little ventilation window, which tends to be open unless it gets really cold out (like more than -15), which it hasn't done yet this winter. But we have been busy, and hadn't gotten to it yet. Today was the first day we would have had a chance to make that change.
However, we wound up doing an even more substantial change. Earlier in the week he happened to notice on the local "for sale" web page an ad for a loom. A rather substantial floor loom. The guy was only asking 1000 SEK (which at today's exchange rate is €112 or $143 USD), so we gave him a call. He wasn't able to meet us that day, but suggested today instead. So this morning we went over and picked it up. It is huge. Took some effort to get the disassembled pieces into the car, because they barely fit.
The pieces are still in the car, because we had no place in the apartment where it might fit. So once we got it home (about noon) we sat down with the computer and spent a few hours trying different configurations of furniture using scale model drawings in CorelDraw. Eventually, we decided that Plan H was a winner, and we started to work. Around midnight we decided that we were done enough for the day.
What did we do?
*emptied the bookshelves which had filled one wall of the livingroom, and created piles, organized by type of book, and combined his and hers books in the same category into the same piles.
*Moved one of the bookshelves into the doorway between the living room and kitchen, facing into the kitchen, to give us additional storage space there (the cookbooks went onto the bottom of that shelf), and another shelf behind it, facing into the livingroom, upon which we put the hardcover fiction books.
*In the corner between those shelves and the walls we stacked the boxes of darkroom stuff that we will eventually get rid of, covered them with a cloth, and put our stuffed animals on top.
*moved the bed temporarily into the hallway while we put the rest of the bookshelves into the corner where the bed was--the little one at a 45 degree angle in the corner, with two shelves on each wall next to it.
*then it was possible to move the bed into the livingroom, against the wall where the shelves used to be.
*moved the rocking chair into the kitchen between the table and the fabric shelves
In theory the loom will fit in the room which is now an office, in the space between the shelves and the computers. We will find out tomorrow.
The living room is now also the bedroom, and the room looks much larger. And the bed is next to the window, so I get that ventilation window next to the bed that I wanted.
All in all I think I will be happy. It is slightly less convenient to get to the kitchen, as we now have only one path instead of two, but I will really like the extra shelf space in the kitchen! And we have more room in the shelves in the office, too, because he had some little stack-able drawers on the shelves, and they are now standing in a stack next to the shelves.
Now it is 02:00, and I should go get some sleep. I did take breaks to do my yoga and read my 1000...
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:27 am (UTC)I think for me part of it is attention span--I get bored if things don't change every few years, at least. One of my friends recently lost the lease for the shop space for the business she has been running for the last decade, and is, understandably, sad about it. But my reaction was "Ten years! how can you keep doing the same job that long?!"
Sure, I have been in the SCA more than twice that long, but I think part of what helps it keep my attention is the picking up and moving to new places so often. It will be interesting to see what happens to my life if I ever do settle down in one place for lots of years...