Ever feel the itch to redesign things?
Do you like to rearrange furniture?
Organize cabinets or closets?
Totally redo your blog layout more often than you even write new posts?
I feel like that a lot.
As a kid, if I got bored in the summer or something, a fun thing for me to do would be to organize my closet or rearrange my bedroom. Go ahead, you can say it. I am a nerd. I know this fact. One of the biggest sadnesses about not having cable anymore is the lack of “Clean Sweep” that is being watched in this house. Anyone know how to break into the professional organzing scene?
I remember one time I decided to change my room to a different bedroom. See we had two almost identical bedrooms upstairs. I was the one by the bathroom. I decided to move across the stairs to the other one. Why, I don’t know. But my mattress at the time was not what one would call the sturdiest thing. It basically folded like a hot dog bun when moved. My mom and I laugh a lot together, but we have probably never laughed so hard as that day when we tried to lug that awful floppy ole thing across the landing at the top of the stairs into the other room. It was hilarious! Sometimes I would want to rearrange and mom would be busy and not able to help me. (Or she was avoiding moving furniture that clearly did not NEED moving.) I rearranged that whole bedroom by myself, which included moving a big full chest of drawers that the drawers could not be taken out of. My mom came up to see my room and was like “how did you move that thing!” I guess I just leaned on it til it got shoved across the room! Nothing like a little determination!
Today I organized the garage. It was only somewhat satisfying because I decided to throw away lots of big boxes that we had kept from things we bought like vaccuums and the new entertainment center and such. But the trash guy had already come, so I just had to pile them in the middle of the garage until the next trash day. So there is just as much stuff in there as it started with. But I did do some rearranging so hopefully the things we need are closer to access and the things we don’t need (such as camping gear and aquariums) are in the cubby hole that we can’t reach as easily.
And then hubby came home and said he wanted to rearrange our office. We might do this another day this week, but rearranging that room will really spill over into other rooms. See, we don’t really need an office that much any more because we aren’t students who have to sit at computer desks with our books writing research papers. (PTL!) And therefore hubby’s desk is really just a catch-all. My desk ususally houses our laptop, even though I bought it specifically so that I could do projects like sewing and scrapbooking on it. And we kinda want to put the laptop in the living room so that in the evenings, if he is playing video games and I am on the computer, we are at least hanging out in the same room. So anyway, if we end up doing some fun rearranging, I will try to take “before” and “after” pictures to show you our mad room design skillz.
Do any of you enjoy rearranging as much as I do?
(Note to Lydia: you should post a picture of your new living room arrangement! You know, in all your spare time!)
