This week my spare energy has been mostly devoted to the house. On Monday and Tuesday Keith emptied his room downstairs. On Wednesday afternoon, while Charles napped, I managed to move the futon which has been a sofa in Tony's room for the last 3 years downstairs and turn it into a double bed. On my own. Go me, ug me strong woman, etc. Keith restored the light fitting which has been gone for over 5 years so it actually looks like a normal room, and also brought in the bedframes for the spare room and stashed them temporarily in the downstairs room.
Later that evening, Tony helped me take down the high metal bed in our spare room, and together we sorted through the large piles of bedding, towels etc that had lurked a) on the futon b) in the airing cupboard.
On Thursday afternoon I had a serious go at the spare room, taking everything off one set of shelves, moving the shelves to their new location in the room, and putting everything back on them. All the while Charles was bimbling around the floor fairly happily and occasionally finding unsuitable things to eat, and submitting unhappily to their removal. Then I took down the next set of shelves, and with Douglas's help got them across into Tony's room without completely destroying them. Then I did more things-shuffling, and vacuumed both rooms, this time with Charles in the Mei Tai on my back.
On Friday I did the bedframes in the spare room. These are 2 single beds, one at roughly normal height, with the other rolled underneath, so that you can roll it out as an extra bed. There isn't room for this in the spare room, but it's a handy way of storing a spare single bed for when we want it later. So I brought up the lower frame, plonked the mattress down, and then assembled the higher bed above it. And then had to take the higher bed apart again because I'd forgotten about the wooden slats that hold the mattress and put the frame in upside down. So then I did it all over again. Charles kept getting annoyed because he wanted to play in the area at the end of the bed and I was repeatedly in his way screwing the bed together.
Anyway, our regular guests, including![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
louise_e_finch and ruthcoleman, will no doubt be very glad to know that we have a normal single guest bed for them from now on!
Hopefully someone from freecycle will come and take away the disassembled high metal bed later today. I need to confirm with Keith what's happening with the remaining mattress and bed frame for which we have no room, but with any luck will also go to freecycle. On Wednesday we have stuff coming from IKEA's online service which should mean we start on the planned reorganisation of the living room and finish reorganising the spare room. Also on the to-do list is:
* tidy up the bookcases in our room, and re-space the shelves so we can get 10 shelves floor-to-ceiling rather than the current 9
* declutter the study
* turn Tony's room into Charles's room
Those last 2 tasks unpack into huge to-do lists of their own but I'm not going there just yet. Originally I planned for Charles to have his own room by the time he was 1. That's not going to happen, but we might manage it by the time he's 2.
Today I finally put up curtains that actually cover the entire window in the downstairs bedroom, so that Douglas could move his stuff into it, so that Jason (our new long-term lodger) can move into the upstairs room. The curtains, like all the ones in the house, are rather blah, but "new curtains" is rather a long way down the priority list. I think that all that remains for the downstairs bedroom is net curtains and a desk, before I can tick that room off as completely done.
Later that evening, Tony helped me take down the high metal bed in our spare room, and together we sorted through the large piles of bedding, towels etc that had lurked a) on the futon b) in the airing cupboard.
On Thursday afternoon I had a serious go at the spare room, taking everything off one set of shelves, moving the shelves to their new location in the room, and putting everything back on them. All the while Charles was bimbling around the floor fairly happily and occasionally finding unsuitable things to eat, and submitting unhappily to their removal. Then I took down the next set of shelves, and with Douglas's help got them across into Tony's room without completely destroying them. Then I did more things-shuffling, and vacuumed both rooms, this time with Charles in the Mei Tai on my back.
On Friday I did the bedframes in the spare room. These are 2 single beds, one at roughly normal height, with the other rolled underneath, so that you can roll it out as an extra bed. There isn't room for this in the spare room, but it's a handy way of storing a spare single bed for when we want it later. So I brought up the lower frame, plonked the mattress down, and then assembled the higher bed above it. And then had to take the higher bed apart again because I'd forgotten about the wooden slats that hold the mattress and put the frame in upside down. So then I did it all over again. Charles kept getting annoyed because he wanted to play in the area at the end of the bed and I was repeatedly in his way screwing the bed together.
Anyway, our regular guests, including
louise_e_finch and ruthcoleman, will no doubt be very glad to know that we have a normal single guest bed for them from now on!Hopefully someone from freecycle will come and take away the disassembled high metal bed later today. I need to confirm with Keith what's happening with the remaining mattress and bed frame for which we have no room, but with any luck will also go to freecycle. On Wednesday we have stuff coming from IKEA's online service which should mean we start on the planned reorganisation of the living room and finish reorganising the spare room. Also on the to-do list is:
* tidy up the bookcases in our room, and re-space the shelves so we can get 10 shelves floor-to-ceiling rather than the current 9
* declutter the study
* turn Tony's room into Charles's room
Those last 2 tasks unpack into huge to-do lists of their own but I'm not going there just yet. Originally I planned for Charles to have his own room by the time he was 1. That's not going to happen, but we might manage it by the time he's 2.
Today I finally put up curtains that actually cover the entire window in the downstairs bedroom, so that Douglas could move his stuff into it, so that Jason (our new long-term lodger) can move into the upstairs room. The curtains, like all the ones in the house, are rather blah, but "new curtains" is rather a long way down the priority list. I think that all that remains for the downstairs bedroom is net curtains and a desk, before I can tick that room off as completely done.
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