Desk Placement

Thanks to Lisette and Ebru for furniture rearranging. After several machinations we settled on the set up in the picture. We moved my short but long red bookshelf into the bedroom and put it against the north wall, adjacent to the foot of the bed. We then moved the tall bookshelf along the west wall of the living room closer to the living room entrance and put the desk in the corner, flush against the west wall. Lisette used her super human strength to relocate my enormous iMac onto the new desk. I will have to get all the pictures re-hung and there is still a bunch of junk I'll have to find a home for that is currently littering the living room, but progress was made.

Lisette and Ebru also took me shopping and we had sandwiches together. It was a nice afternoon, but as always the visit with them was too brief.

Those Silly Furniture Showrooms

Even after measuring the desk and trying to show that measurement in my apartment, the desk still looks so much bigger then I thought. The mind is easily deceived by the use of space. I can't decide, now, where best to put the new piece, though it is quite lovely. Maybe I'll move my short, but long, bookshelf into the bedroom and put it opposite the foot of my bed and then put the desk against the wall in the living room. Sigh... When I figure it out I'll post a picture.

Now to my morning arm exercises... blech and double blech...

What is this?

David's lunch beverage.........

Update at 8:45 pm:
A nice day out today. Went to Park Chow for lunch... I walked down there and met David. Later, back at the house, David moved the furniture around to make room for my new desk. It should be delivered Saturday. Living room looks funny now when the first thing you see is the couch... I may have to start looking into getting the pillows re-stuffed!

Bedroom Oasis on its Way!

My new bedroom furniture arrived today and is now set up and looking lovely (I'd post a picture, but frankly I can't get a decent angle), As always, the furniture appears bigger in the room then in the show room, but there is still plenty of room . I just have to decide if I want to rearrange at all. For now it is okay. I just need to decide on my paint, so I can redo the walls -- they are in dire need of a new coat of paint. I'm still leaning towards something in the green family with maybe brown and red accents. What I think I'd really like is brown velvet curtains with an under curtain of sheer dark red, like a brick red. That would look cool if the green was right, though Walker thinks the red will cancel out the green making it all look more brown... what do I know of color? I shall have to experiment... maybe instead of red I should consider a pale and light, but bright, green, like lime or something. Ah, we shall see, we shall see. I shall go to the paint shop tomorrow for the base color and start there.

On another note, Linda was back on site this week after a few weeks of away that turned out to be most unpleasant for her -- Poor Linda! The low point was when she and Sister Judy (her sister-in-law) were driving along a highway in Montana somewhere at a mere 78 m.p.h. in a nice convertible rental car when suddenly they smashed into a large buck! Of course the car was totaled, though thankfully, and through some miracle, neither Linda or Judy were hurt. We can, therefore, offer up our sympathies to the poor buck. But, for those of you who know Linda, you can imagine her speeding along only to find a large male deer in her lap! Poor Judy had to be driven off in the police cruiser -- I won't say why, because it would be indelicate -- but Sister Judy did note the lack of legroom in the back there off the cruiser!

Speaking of Linda, we talked a bit about my plan for a trip out to Montana. It is currently planned for early Fall. Her husband is quite the outdoorsman and we've talked a bit about me going hunting or fishing with him. But to be frank, I'm a soft touch, regardless of my marksmanship. And then, when Linda starting talking about hunting geese, and how geese mate for life and that when you hunt geese you therefore try to get both of them at the same time... well, how could I? My hope is for fishing... I think I could do that! I'm so looking forward to visiting them... it will be so cool to go to Montana.

Bedroom Transformation Underway

After a long time of wanting to get some proper bedroom furniture -- still have my old futon frame, an end table that's wobbling and no dressers -- I finally took the plunge and purchased a bedroom set. I had been shopping around for awhile and had thought I wanted this nice, heavy bed from Pottery Barn, but when I came across a Room & Board catalog and saw the Lowry collection my mind was immediately changed. Even so, I hedged and hedged until I finally went to the store with Abby and took the plunge. I ended up getting the bed in queen, the 5 drawer-tall dresser and one end table. It gets delivered this week.

Needless to say, when you spend a significant chunk of change on new furniture you get the idea that perhaps it's time to do something about the existing condition of the room. And those of you who know me know this won't be pretty. First, I want to get all the books out of the bedroom. I can't put them all in the living room, so all there is to do is mass purging. I'm up to 6+ bags of books and still I purge. It's painful getting rid of my books, but I've tried to take the approach that if I haven't reread it in the past several years, then it needs to go or be passed along to a friend who will enjoy the reading. I'm considering posting something on Craig's list about the books... something like, "bags and bags of books available for free - you pick up."

After purging the books it will be time to get the craft supplies and comic books -- both of which are stored in plastic containers -- put away in the hall closet (a disaster area of its own). Then it's just a matter of dismantling the old futon frame and getting it down to the garage to be disposed of. How does one get rid of junk like this in this city?

After the room is purged of it's clutter, cleansed and new furniture delivered, I shall paint. I have some ideas, but they haven't panned out so far and I don't want to paint until the furniture is in so i can make sure the colors will be right. Any suggestions for a nice, relaxing bedroom color scheme?