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owlectomySo, last week I started installing shelving in the closets to get at least some of my clutter out of the way.
On Saturday I got home from wandering around, and the sun must have got to me, because I said, "Self! You know how you're not crazy about having the desk in front of the window because it's the first thing you see when you come in, but you don't have a better alternative? If you moved the manga drawers by the bed like a sort of night table, you could slide out the dresser and move the desk behind there!"
(I really liked the desk when I first got it, but it's too big, and I'm realizing that stainless-steel-and-glass isn't really my style. Plus, the chair is not attractive. Meh.)
My idea did not actually work. But once I started moving furniture, new possibilities kept suggesting themselves, till I finally hit upon a configuration where the futon was at the center of the room, and yet... I think it sort of works. And if it doesn't, too bad, because I'm not rearranging it again.
Not least because one of my bookshelves started teetering ominously. I think this is the one that came from Target, and it has outlived its useful life. Much as I don't want to replace cheap chipboard furniture with slightly better cheap chipboard furniture... that's probably where I'm going.
And then today I went to IKEA and bought a shelf and some boxes to put my knitting stuff in, which will free up space on my bookshelf (when I get rid of the plastic thing it was in before, anyway.)
What's left, I think, is art and curtains.
And, without further ado,
As you come in the room: (There's my roommate's cat Aurelia doing her "Oh no, somebody taking a picture!" thing)
On Saturday I got home from wandering around, and the sun must have got to me, because I said, "Self! You know how you're not crazy about having the desk in front of the window because it's the first thing you see when you come in, but you don't have a better alternative? If you moved the manga drawers by the bed like a sort of night table, you could slide out the dresser and move the desk behind there!"
(I really liked the desk when I first got it, but it's too big, and I'm realizing that stainless-steel-and-glass isn't really my style. Plus, the chair is not attractive. Meh.)
My idea did not actually work. But once I started moving furniture, new possibilities kept suggesting themselves, till I finally hit upon a configuration where the futon was at the center of the room, and yet... I think it sort of works. And if it doesn't, too bad, because I'm not rearranging it again.
Not least because one of my bookshelves started teetering ominously. I think this is the one that came from Target, and it has outlived its useful life. Much as I don't want to replace cheap chipboard furniture with slightly better cheap chipboard furniture... that's probably where I'm going.
And then today I went to IKEA and bought a shelf and some boxes to put my knitting stuff in, which will free up space on my bookshelf (when I get rid of the plastic thing it was in before, anyway.)
What's left, I think, is art and curtains.
And, without further ado,
As you come in the room: (There's my roommate's cat Aurelia doing her "Oh no, somebody taking a picture!" thing)
My shelves remain in a bit of disorder:
A closeup on my desk (which will never be less cluttery than it is now) plus new knitting storage:
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27/4/09 00:34 (UTC)I agree about the white. I'm working on getting some art put up. And I have a duvet cover for the bed, but I decided it was TOO much (it's a pink and purple and orange print), so I need to see about getting something else. But I'm taking a break until I figure out whether I get to keep my job.