Sleeping in a different room.

[mundens]

Yesterday I spent much of the day cleaning up the spare bedroom and cleaning and drying the furniture from the master bedroom, before moving my furniture into the spare bedroom.

The most fiddly bit of the cleaning was cleaning the venetian blinds in the spare rooom. They're quite trendy blinds, as you'll see below, but they take a lot of cleaning, and certainly needed it. I aslo cleaned windows, both the intereior and exterior, of all the rooms down the back of the house.

I'd just finished most of the heavy lifting when Ele & Ben turned up. This was good, as I needed a rest and some social time. I surprised Ben by pulling out Singstar and a lot of fun was had by everyone playing Singstar (Ele, being the only female present, was better than all the boys, with only wasup_bro coming close. I suspect panda_pitt may have given her more of a challenge.

Then I went out and grabbed Hell for tea. I had planned to do this anyway, given that I had a token for a free snack pizza and had to get some shopping done too. It was raining before I left, but while I was driving it became absolutely torrential. I got a little wet ordering the ppizza, and then drove to the supermarket. While wandering around the supermarket I got yelled at by an employee. He'd gotten my attention because one of the the milk containers in my trolley was leaking and I was leaving a little dribbly trail of milk all down the aisles.

Back to Hell to get the pizza and home. Unfortunately it was my day for dribbly produucts, and the Unearthly dessert pizza I'd picked up with the free token had basically slid of it's base. Was still edible though.

Ele & Ben left around 7pm and I got back into moving my stuff to the spare bedroom. The surprising thing is that the bedroom suite and other things go really well in that room. Here's a couple of piccies





Obvioulsy the crappy old pink carpet looks out of place, but with the additoin of some of the blue/gray carpet like in the downstairs bedroom, it would look quite good. We've found the final resting place of that bedroom suite.

I did all this moving to clear out the master bedroom so that I can get serious about re-decoratiiong it. So decorating decisions will need to be made at some time. But I'm not even worrying about those decisions yet, I'll need to get the all paper stipped, the walls plastered and sanded and undercoated, and the trim sanded and undercoated before thinking about what colour goes on top or which bed to buy.

I have to admit I am tempted by this bed. Or this one. But they are a bit out of my price range and suit English manor house better than my 1970's suburban house, regardless of how I actualy decorate it. I'm thinking of wooden flooring for the hallway, and am tempted to do the same for the bedroom, if only to make any cat deposits easier to clean and to reduce the dust.

I finally got to bed around half twelve last night, after having a shower. Last night was the first time I have slept in a room other than the master bedroom since moving into this house. In other words, until tonight, while at home I have slept in the same place for twelve years. I slept well. I even found it easy to sleep in the morning , though whether that was more because of the exertion of the day before and the cold weather, I'm not sure. But the room is smaller and thus seems a bit cosier. I quite like the blue and black, though I suspect it's probably a litttle cold as a colour, and maybe sleeping in the classic colours of bruising might be the wrong thing to do long term. Then again, maybe it would be good camoflauge? :)

Not sure I can be bothered doing any more today. Had good plans, but it's already after midday and I haven't really woken up yet. Weather makes me feel like curling up in bed with a book. There are those I'd prefer to curl up in bed with, but unfortunately none of them are here. Maybe a coffee will get me moving again...

Comments

[crsg.livejournal.com]

Both those beds look fantastic. I'm getting bed-envy - one day I'd like a dark wood 4-poster bed. With ridiculous but awesome silk hangings of some variety.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Don't get too envious, I doubt very much I'll ever get anything that fancy, as those things cost thousands, not to mention that they'd look out of place here.

Maybe one day when I win lotto and buy a Victorian mansion!

[seraphs-folly.livejournal.com]

>>There are those I'd prefer to curl up in bed with, but unfortunately none of them are here

Noo will be in Welly soon :P

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Noo is such a cuddle bunny!

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm not normally a furniture person, but that first bed is F'ing gorgeous, the kind of think a Steampunk villain ought to own!

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right, very Steampunk villain!

I can easily imagine a mustachioed gent ripping bodices in front of that bed. Or a demure English rose exclaiming, hand to mouth, "Why Mr. Darcy, it's so big!

I wonder if they do a version of that bed with a few strategically placed ring bolts ?