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Room Arrangements
16 Jul 2023 10:54 pmI'm sore as heck from dragging furniture around. Our dad is moving and is getting rid of a bunch of furniture, so my sister and I claimed some of it to upgrade our living room. We took one corner of his sectional couch and an Ikea KALLAX shelving unit (that's the ones with the cubes).
My dad and my sister did most of the actual heavy lifting because my back is not up for that kind of activity, but I took care of moving all the small furniture items out of the way, and took the opportunity to deep-clean the room while it was mostly empty of furniture between them hauling out the old stuff and bringing in the new stuff.
I also came up with the arrangement that would fit everything in the room in a satisfactory way. I used Inkscape:
The overlay grid represents 1ft per square. If I zoom in on the file, there are smaller grid lines at 12x12 per each larger square, which let me get pretty exact with the measurements of the room layout and the furniture items. There are a bunch of small side-tables, plus a sizeable ottoman and a cat tree, that I didn't bother to include in the layout; I just figured out where to put them all once the big stuff was actually in place, and it worked out pretty well.
The couch is really excellent. It's been in dad's house for maybe three years, so it's technically not much newer than the one we tossed out (~5 years old), but it's much higher quality and has many more years of life in it - our old one was a Bob's Discount Furniture couch and was basically falling apart. And I'm psyched out of my mind about the extra storage offered by the Kallax cube shelf. Plus, this new arrangement gives us better access to the windows (which were previously mostly trapped behind my desk + work-from-home setup), and I can already anticipate that we're gonna start picking up some suncatchers to fill those windows with.
I guess I missed a couple of weeks of word count, so let's get the total count for June today!
Total monthly words (June): 25,985
Monthly words to date (July): 32,065
Annual words to date (2023): 247,750
Dinner tonight is: made by my sister! She made a Japanese pork chop recipe with a mustard-based sauce, with roasted broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Delicious!
My dad and my sister did most of the actual heavy lifting because my back is not up for that kind of activity, but I took care of moving all the small furniture items out of the way, and took the opportunity to deep-clean the room while it was mostly empty of furniture between them hauling out the old stuff and bringing in the new stuff.
I also came up with the arrangement that would fit everything in the room in a satisfactory way. I used Inkscape:
The overlay grid represents 1ft per square. If I zoom in on the file, there are smaller grid lines at 12x12 per each larger square, which let me get pretty exact with the measurements of the room layout and the furniture items. There are a bunch of small side-tables, plus a sizeable ottoman and a cat tree, that I didn't bother to include in the layout; I just figured out where to put them all once the big stuff was actually in place, and it worked out pretty well.
The couch is really excellent. It's been in dad's house for maybe three years, so it's technically not much newer than the one we tossed out (~5 years old), but it's much higher quality and has many more years of life in it - our old one was a Bob's Discount Furniture couch and was basically falling apart. And I'm psyched out of my mind about the extra storage offered by the Kallax cube shelf. Plus, this new arrangement gives us better access to the windows (which were previously mostly trapped behind my desk + work-from-home setup), and I can already anticipate that we're gonna start picking up some suncatchers to fill those windows with.
I guess I missed a couple of weeks of word count, so let's get the total count for June today!
Total monthly words (June): 25,985
Monthly words to date (July): 32,065
Annual words to date (2023): 247,750
Dinner tonight is: made by my sister! She made a Japanese pork chop recipe with a mustard-based sauce, with roasted broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Delicious!