Well. After no little bit of deliberations, both Bear and I realized that we only live in five rooms of this eight room house (that’s counting each bathroom). The ‘Den’ is used for storing books and lots of paperwork. The ‘Exercise’ room is used for storing the treadmill and Health Rider and our New Balance sneakers.
My Studio is used to store my art supplies and myriads of projects begun and not finished. I tend to want to work in the living room or the kitchen so I can talk to my husband without shouting or having to move away from the task at hand.
This leaves us frequenting the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom and the two bathrooms. The other three rooms are sadly neglected.
NOT ANY MORE!!! We bought a new sofa! And how does this fix the problem? Well, it is slightly confusing, but essentially very logical. First we move the old hide-a-bed, which I dislike intensely, from the den to the cabin. Then we move the treadmill and the Health Rider to the den from the exercise room. This makes the exercise room no longer an exercise room. It is now a spare bedroom, but without a bed. Oops.
To remedy this, we move the wonderful sofa sleeper in the living room to the extra bedroom, creating a sitting room that will double as a spare bedroom for guests, like my daughter from Nevada who will be here over Christmas. Yay!
Other household objects like the bentwood rocker will go into the sitting room, maybe my desk from the living room and even maybe another bookshelf. It will be a nice sitting room and the sofa sleeper will fold out into a very nice bed. We even plan to buy a new mattress that can hide away, too.
This leaves a gaping hole in the living room where the sofa sleeper used to be. I mean large empty area. Thus, voila!, the new couch. Which we will pick up next Saturday. Found it on sale for Veterans’ Day and since I have THREE (count them) veteran ancestors and one living veteran on my side, I got an extra $$$ off. Actually it’s more like $$ off, but who wants to quibble over dollar signs?
This weekend was spent rearranging. Unfortunately rearranging does not include sorting and throwing away stuff. But as more time goes by, I am becoming more enamored with the simple manner of home décor. That is, not much to collect dust. We’ll see how that goes. Stay tuned.
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