A Living Room
Jan. 22nd, 2019 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
singedsunSpent the early part of last week moving everything out of the living room so we could have new carpet installed on Thursday. Then we spent the long weekend painting said living room. I realize it's the wrong order, but we didn't have time to paint before the carpet happened so we were just extra careful to cover the new carpet when we painted. Plus it's a big room to paint so it took us MOST of Sunday just to get it painted, having set the drop cloths and tape on Saturday evening and done the clean up today.
It'll still take us a week or so to move things into that room now that it's done but just the carpet and paint done on its own, has made me feel a thousand times better. Our old carpet was bad and gross and gave me anxiety every time I spent more than a few moments walking through. Now it feels comfy and looks like it belongs in the home of a proper adult.
Part of this whole process just sets off a chain of other things to do, like moving the television from the basement to the living room and mounting it on the wall so the cats can't climb it or knock it over. And moving all the games and consoles, and dvds, which will likely also require new shelving? IDK exactly what we'll have or need space for. But I feel like it looks like a livable space now and it hasn't for a really, really long time. So it's progress.
I know everyone's so into the whole Kon-Mari thing because Marie's show just came out, even though the books been out for years or whatever. I don't really have any interest in her show or her methods. This living room project we're finishing has been something we've been working on for about six months, just little bits at a time. But I'll admit seeing the empty room right now is a really nice feeling and I'm motivated to keep it as simple as possible going forward.
The whole purpose is to make it an actual living room, which it's never properly been since we've lived here. First it was just a way point for all the stuff we moved into the house, then it was just a place to sit and eat when we had friends over, a place to host Christmas/Thanksgiving parties, and mostly just a way-station between rooms. You have to go through that room to get everywhere else in the house which is partially why it was such a mess. But the way we live right now is pretty simple and I want to have a room that's for actually living in. For watching television and playing video games and listening to music/podcasts with other people.
Once we get the last things moved and the television set up, that's exactly what I'm going to have. It's strange to be excited over something that seems so simple. (And such an adult(TM) thing.)
The living room project as it was is one of the items on page in my bullet journal called my Clean Slate list. Projects I've been putting off or putting on hold or just never getting to for one reason or another. They're not necessarily this big or expensive, but for one reason or another they're not getting done either. Feels good to check this one off the list.
It'll still take us a week or so to move things into that room now that it's done but just the carpet and paint done on its own, has made me feel a thousand times better. Our old carpet was bad and gross and gave me anxiety every time I spent more than a few moments walking through. Now it feels comfy and looks like it belongs in the home of a proper adult.
Part of this whole process just sets off a chain of other things to do, like moving the television from the basement to the living room and mounting it on the wall so the cats can't climb it or knock it over. And moving all the games and consoles, and dvds, which will likely also require new shelving? IDK exactly what we'll have or need space for. But I feel like it looks like a livable space now and it hasn't for a really, really long time. So it's progress.
I know everyone's so into the whole Kon-Mari thing because Marie's show just came out, even though the books been out for years or whatever. I don't really have any interest in her show or her methods. This living room project we're finishing has been something we've been working on for about six months, just little bits at a time. But I'll admit seeing the empty room right now is a really nice feeling and I'm motivated to keep it as simple as possible going forward.
The whole purpose is to make it an actual living room, which it's never properly been since we've lived here. First it was just a way point for all the stuff we moved into the house, then it was just a place to sit and eat when we had friends over, a place to host Christmas/Thanksgiving parties, and mostly just a way-station between rooms. You have to go through that room to get everywhere else in the house which is partially why it was such a mess. But the way we live right now is pretty simple and I want to have a room that's for actually living in. For watching television and playing video games and listening to music/podcasts with other people.
Once we get the last things moved and the television set up, that's exactly what I'm going to have. It's strange to be excited over something that seems so simple. (And such an adult(TM) thing.)
The living room project as it was is one of the items on page in my bullet journal called my Clean Slate list. Projects I've been putting off or putting on hold or just never getting to for one reason or another. They're not necessarily this big or expensive, but for one reason or another they're not getting done either. Feels good to check this one off the list.
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