Necessity is the Mother of Redecoration
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But I had to pop on and say that the biggest challenge in this whole renovation thing going on hasn't been cleaning, or clearing, or even painting. It's been having to fall back and come up with new design schemes almost every day - sometimes every hour.
In this case, I've been refusing to get rid of my current sofa (rather to M's dismay) because 1) it has the main requirements I demand in a sofa (long enough to stretch out on and arms soft enough to be a pillow of themselves) and 2) the doors to Holly House are so small that I had to hire someone on the day of delivery to take it apart, pull it through the door in pieces, and put it back together. And that's the way it's going to have to leave.
M has a sofa of her own, which is perfectly good and looks comfortable, but there's no way that we could fit it in our living room along with the new (well, secondhand, but a real deal) loveseat that's been cluttering up the library.
And that's true... except that Salvation Army just refused to take her perfectly good sofa because it has a couple of threadbare places and thus is considered "not resellable."
After a certain amount of shoving, pulling, tugging, measuring, and general gladness that I haven't painted the now slightly battered hallways, the loveseat is in my bedroom, the reading chair from the bedroom is now in the library, and I've figured out two ways to wedge her soft into the living room. One's a bit silly - it's technically possible to simply line them both up along the longest wall - but the plan to build an L out of the two sofas appears to be feasible.
The library went through about 8 renovations before M started coming up with suggestions, which got us up to about 16 different plans before it all came together. And while it's essentially a room completely lined with bookshelves and plants (and FINALLY some stained glass), I happen to like rooms just like that. It's my favorite spot in the house right now.
But I had to pop on and say that the biggest challenge in this whole renovation thing going on hasn't been cleaning, or clearing, or even painting. It's been having to fall back and come up with new design schemes almost every day - sometimes every hour.
In this case, I've been refusing to get rid of my current sofa (rather to M's dismay) because 1) it has the main requirements I demand in a sofa (long enough to stretch out on and arms soft enough to be a pillow of themselves) and 2) the doors to Holly House are so small that I had to hire someone on the day of delivery to take it apart, pull it through the door in pieces, and put it back together. And that's the way it's going to have to leave.
M has a sofa of her own, which is perfectly good and looks comfortable, but there's no way that we could fit it in our living room along with the new (well, secondhand, but a real deal) loveseat that's been cluttering up the library.
And that's true... except that Salvation Army just refused to take her perfectly good sofa because it has a couple of threadbare places and thus is considered "not resellable."
After a certain amount of shoving, pulling, tugging, measuring, and general gladness that I haven't painted the now slightly battered hallways, the loveseat is in my bedroom, the reading chair from the bedroom is now in the library, and I've figured out two ways to wedge her soft into the living room. One's a bit silly - it's technically possible to simply line them both up along the longest wall - but the plan to build an L out of the two sofas appears to be feasible.
The library went through about 8 renovations before M started coming up with suggestions, which got us up to about 16 different plans before it all came together. And while it's essentially a room completely lined with bookshelves and plants (and FINALLY some stained glass), I happen to like rooms just like that. It's my favorite spot in the house right now.
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Date: 2011-07-09 11:48 pm (UTC)Now that it's still our problem, I think I can make lemonade from the lemons.
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Date: 2011-07-10 05:23 am (UTC)Great pic of Gytha, Mulder & the brown tabby/white. Gytha looks just like Vir (in userpic) did at that age.
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