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In the previous post, “The Great Furniture Rearrangement Debacle,” my dear husband told a story of furniture rearrangement in our bedroom. He also said, and I quote, “I won.” In this post, I will tell my version of the story and you will see my genius!
As Michael mentioned, the original furniture configuration of our bedroom included our king-sized bed begin centered on the long wall, flanked on either side by our night stands. My side is the left side of the room, Michael is the right. So, to the left of my nightstand was Michael’s mess, I mean desk. This desk is HUGE and never tidy. There is also a chair that doesn’t quite fit all they way under the desk to it is always protruding. This narrows the space between the edge of the nightstand and the mess to a big goose egg and from the edge of the bed to the mess, only about 2 feet. Because of my limited space, I often resorted to using the mess chair as a place to store things…my purse, etc. And I also added to the mess. What Michael didn’t mention is that although we have this enormous mess (by now you should have picked up that mess=desk) he rarely uses. RARELY. Then on the occasion he wants to use it, it is a disaster. Covered in his “tinkering” business and often my accessories, mail that needs to be filed, etc. Needless to say, I HATED this desk being on my side of the room. I mean it had been the bane of my existence.
So, it just had to change. I tried to come up with different furniture arrangements, all of which originally included leaving the bed where it was, but moving the desk to the opposite side of the room which actually has more space. According to Michael, the desk absolutely had to stay where it was because of the internet jack. However, we have WIRELESS internet and the computers (yes, we have multiple and when I say multiple I mean like 10 in our house) that require “hooking up” don’t even work!
So because the mess could not move, my next choice was to angle the bed in the opposite corner. We had done this in our old house and it worked beautifully. Michael is over angling though so option 3: put the bed under the windows on the right side of the room, flank it with our nightstands. Move the dresser to the long wall and leave the desk as-is. From a space stand point, this is actually and ideal set up. And as Michael quoted from Step Brothers, it left us room for activities like karate (also known as playing with the dogs). Activities…very clever husband. However, as Michael also correctly stated in his post, the air vents in our room (we do have a rather large room) are all located in the center of the room…all three of them, and we apparently don’t get great air circulation. So the new furniture rearrangement was hot and altogether uncomfortable. The dogs didn’t like it either as we were now really far away from them.
Result: no one could sleep. Not us or our four-legged family members. I always woke up hot in the middle of the night and the dogs were always pacing around at night. For two weeks, we were zombies. Then, that was it. We had to move the furniture back. However, that mess still could not stay where it was! I refused to chare my sanctuary with computer parts other than my husband. (Side note: what was the name of that TV show where the girl was a robot? Small Wonder or something like that? I think Michael might be part computer. Like a transformer, but instead of becoming a car he becomes a laptop). And Michael knew my utter disgust for the mess! So I told Michael that I would agree to moving the bed back to its original, full air-vent exposed location if the desk could move to his side of the room and the dresser to my side. And that was that. So now, the bed is really where I originally wanted it, the desk is moved where I wanted it and we are all sleeping well at night.
The Great Furniture Rearrangement Debacle? Debacle indeed. If by Debacle you mean Erika is a genius!
Disclaimer:
Ok, so Michael and I really do get along and kind of did this post for fun. Neither of us really manipulated the situation at all, but we have fun angling the outcomes and results so that in each of our opinions, “I win.” This situation actually worked to the best of both worlds and we are really happy with our current furniture arrangement. But just for good measure, “I win.”
Oh and my current Wii Fit age is 20! Boo-yah!
4 People have left comments on this post
May 14, 2009 - 09:05:46Totally not the way it happened…
You wanted the bed moved under the windows. That was the first priority. Yes, you might have secretly just wanted to be away from the desk, but your first and most desired location was under the windows. After I fought you on that for a while, you asked about moving the desk. We still had the bookcase on my side, so I really didn’t want everything on my side. Then only like 1 or 2 days before I consented to move the bed to the windows did you ever bring up the idea of angling in the corner.
I won fair and square. I did conceed one item by moving the desk, but that was not your ultimate goal. In your own words, “You better wreck yourself, before you check yourself.”
Oh Michael. Like you said, though you may not have been completely 100% aware of it, my goal was always to not be near the desk…and I am no longer near the desk.
and regarding the angling, it was brough up well before this “debacle.” I loved the angling in our old house but you said you were over it and always dismissed the idea. THen I did bring it up again when we were rearranging, but that was not the first time
Sounds to me like you both lost. Susanne and I never had the debate. We don’t argue. We have a perfect marriage.
We win!
And Erika, I bet I could score a Wii Fit age of 19!