Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Are You a Furniture Re-Arranger, or Not?

Some women love to rearrange their furniture. Not me. I like to figure out what the very best way is to place the furniture in any given room, and then I leave it like that forever. It is a combination of my aesthetic sense and common sense that determines where couches, chairs and the like will leave footprints in my carpet forever. I don't know feng shue, so that at least doesn't complicate things for me, because as it is it sometimes takes me a while to get it all figured out. My livingroom has never been satisfying. It was not built to accommodate a couch, and should have 2 loveseats instead. But we have lots of people in our family, so I'm unwilling to give up the extra seating room, and I don't want to buy new furniture anyway.
There is a major change coming to my living room. On its way on some truck somewhere is several hundred square feet of hardwood flooring. The old carpet is going to make way for it, and it is forcing me to reconsider the arrangement of the furniture, since an area rug will be necessary on the hardwood floor, and the area rug needs to line up with the fireplace and have either the couch or the loveseat anchoring it. I'm going to be feeling a little out of sorts until I get this all figured out.

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