Iron woman
Last Wednesday I got it in my head that my bedroom needed reorganising. Furniture-wise. (The contents of the closets, shelves, and boxes are in a much bigger mess, therefore I need a lot bigger inspiration to start organising those.)
Here’s what it used to look like:
I had figured I have no need for much floor space (not going to square dance or anything there) so I’d put the bed like that to make it easier to change sheets. However, I got tired of the maze. I’d bump my leg and hip on the foot of the bed or my desk. Don’t ask me why, but I always got in from the right even though the left side was all clear. (The dimensions are a little off there, because in reality the foot of the bed and the corner of the desk were closer… I’m not that wide.)
Anyway, I took the stuff off the shelves of my big bookcase (in the corner there), threw them on the bed, and put some woolly socks under the bookcase. I dragged it across the room. Then I dragged my bed around with the help of some more woolly socks and pushed it in the corner. Then I put the desk in front of the window. Very easy to move the desk since it is on a little rug. Finally, I carried the chest of drawers and put it on the other end of the desk.
Here’s what it looks like now:
Still, the desk area isn’t optimal but I didn’t want to put the chest of drawers right next to the bed. I’m afraid I may hit my head or something. Maybe I’ll need to try it out though, because it could act as a night table too (I need to put my cellphone, i.e. alarm clock, somewhere). Unfortunately the door doesn’t open all the way now because the bookcase is just a tad too wide (the door hits just the corner there) but there aren’t many places to put it.
(The floor plans were created at Floorplanner.com.)
I like it. I like that there’s more space. Christ knows I’ve rearranged rooms often enough. Just don’t like the thought of making that bed. I had one room (my daughter’s room) with the bed up against the wall. And since she wouldn’t make her bed most of the time, it was me making it. Pain in the ass to get the side by the wall.
And I was going to ask what program you used to make the diagram, then saw that link for floorplanner. I’ve gotta try that. Not that I’m going to rearrange anything at the moment, it just looks neat to use.
I probably would’ve put the desk and other office stuff in the corner where my bed is and then maybe be able to place the bed away from the walls. However, there are no network plugs on that side of the room and stretching those cables around would be too much hassle in my opinion.
We’ve got cables going from one room to another – did that before we had a wireless router.
I’m pretty lucky that I don’t have to do any of that room-to-room cabling. We have Internet cabling built into the apartment and there are one or two plugs in both rooms. The only “problem” is the placement of the plugs within a room.
I’ve always had the same problem with placing the bed. And it always eventually ends up in the middle of a wall for easy maintenance… This is why in my last move I got more rooms, so I didn’t have to fit the bed and the desk in the same one.
While I have wireless, too, I prefer cables for most things. They provide faster transfer inside the home (I use networked storage). Also can’t be broken into quite as easily as the wireless.
If I had the skills and tools and daring I’d drill some holes in the walls to route the cables better, but for the past 4 years I’ve put up with cables on the floor unavoidably across one doorway…
Ahhh, I didn’t even think of getting an extra room! That’s very clever!
(Well, I did change from one room to two). I have plenty of space on the balcony, maybe I should build a weather-proofed computer. Or maybe put up a tent out there to sleep in (that would solve my current problem with the temperature in the bedroom – 26 C is a tad high…)
Maybe it is the Finnish way of building that keeps all the heat inside?? I have the very same problem.
But the room that is (at least a bit) cooler in the evening gets very bright sunlight very early in the morning. I must sleep very early in the morning …