Further Homemaking Adventures
Jul. 3rd, 2009 10:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serindeI've spent most of the (still possibly insufficient, but at least greater) time at home recently nibbling at the This Is Not How I Want It problem. The chief process has been organizing the stuff that needs to go out, each according to its kind: this bag is for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arkham1010, that one for elibalin, the monitor for nedlnthred's parents is in the corner, etc.; and then there is the large (and still growing) quantity of Stuff which is destined for donation.
Grump #1: the NYPL branch around the corner isn't taking book donations at the moment, because that would've been far too convenient. I shall have to schlep all the books I'm ditching up to either the branch at 78th and York, or to Housing Works at 77th and Third. Blarg.
Then, yesterday evening, I was seized by the urge to do furniture rearranging NAO NAO NAO, and so I did that thing. This involved unloading the bookshelves so I could move them, which opportunity I seized for more culling and a bit of reorganization. There was also a slight mishap involving another unit of furniture. I put it back together. ALL IS WELL, CITIZEN. Anyways, now the bookshelves are where the futon was, the futon is facing the fire escape window, and the smaller shelf unit with all my DVDs and some CDs on it is next to the kitchen work bench; but that is a temporary location, as I can now put an armchair there (if it isn't too large) and there can be actual seated comfortable conversation in the living room. It's also generally more pleasant and inviting, and I think I'm more likely to actually sit on the futon now.
Problems still staring balefully at me include:
1. Armchair + futon does not exactly a dinner party make. I can get a small table or something to put in the middle, but it's not sitting to dinner, you know? More like having noshies at a comfortable bar. Or am I holding on too tight?
2. I am not sure it works for gaming, either. Though it might do.
3. I would really like to put an end table next to the futon, but I think if I do, I won't be able to open the fridge.
4. The TV problem has not been addressed at all. I had a vague notion I could set things up so I could leave the iMac on my desk and just rotate it, to watch DVDs in comfort from the living room[1]; but it's just not going to work. And the way I have rearranged now[2], the focal point for a TV screen would be...attaching it to the window. Um.
5. Though I excised another large sack of books, and it let me put some more things on shelves instead of having them in piles, it's still not enough. I think I just don't want another bookshelf in here[3], and that means I have to live with what I've got, and argh. Well, if our house sale goes through next month, I can advance the eBook Solution.
But, in general, I look upon my work and find it Good. I can hang Dad's clan map of Scotland where the bookshelves were before, even. Now all of you people taking stuff of me PLEASE COME GET IT kthxbye.
[1] which still doesn't address the XBox issue, but it might do for the moment.
[2] I have one more shot in my locker, which involves putting the futon at a 30 degree angle, but I'm not sure it'll work, and I can't try it until more stuff goes away.
[3] except I'm going to have a small one in the bedroom forpr0n tasteful erotica, I think
arkham1010, that one for elibalin, the monitor for nedlnthred's parents is in the corner, etc.; and then there is the large (and still growing) quantity of Stuff which is destined for donation. Grump #1: the NYPL branch around the corner isn't taking book donations at the moment, because that would've been far too convenient. I shall have to schlep all the books I'm ditching up to either the branch at 78th and York, or to Housing Works at 77th and Third. Blarg.
Then, yesterday evening, I was seized by the urge to do furniture rearranging NAO NAO NAO, and so I did that thing. This involved unloading the bookshelves so I could move them, which opportunity I seized for more culling and a bit of reorganization. There was also a slight mishap involving another unit of furniture. I put it back together. ALL IS WELL, CITIZEN. Anyways, now the bookshelves are where the futon was, the futon is facing the fire escape window, and the smaller shelf unit with all my DVDs and some CDs on it is next to the kitchen work bench; but that is a temporary location, as I can now put an armchair there (if it isn't too large) and there can be actual seated comfortable conversation in the living room. It's also generally more pleasant and inviting, and I think I'm more likely to actually sit on the futon now.
Problems still staring balefully at me include:
1. Armchair + futon does not exactly a dinner party make. I can get a small table or something to put in the middle, but it's not sitting to dinner, you know? More like having noshies at a comfortable bar. Or am I holding on too tight?
2. I am not sure it works for gaming, either. Though it might do.
3. I would really like to put an end table next to the futon, but I think if I do, I won't be able to open the fridge.
4. The TV problem has not been addressed at all. I had a vague notion I could set things up so I could leave the iMac on my desk and just rotate it, to watch DVDs in comfort from the living room[1]; but it's just not going to work. And the way I have rearranged now[2], the focal point for a TV screen would be...attaching it to the window. Um.
5. Though I excised another large sack of books, and it let me put some more things on shelves instead of having them in piles, it's still not enough. I think I just don't want another bookshelf in here[3], and that means I have to live with what I've got, and argh. Well, if our house sale goes through next month, I can advance the eBook Solution.
But, in general, I look upon my work and find it Good. I can hang Dad's clan map of Scotland where the bookshelves were before, even. Now all of you people taking stuff of me PLEASE COME GET IT kthxbye.
[1] which still doesn't address the XBox issue, but it might do for the moment.
[2] I have one more shot in my locker, which involves putting the futon at a 30 degree angle, but I'm not sure it'll work, and I can't try it until more stuff goes away.
[3] except I'm going to have a small one in the bedroom for
