A Change of Scenery

We rearranged our living room in order to make it easier for groups to watch movies.

I know some people are completely bored by this kind of stuff, but for those of us who enjoy arranging space in a useful and aesthetic way, I am writing this post.

This was our aprox. layout before. It’s not really accurate but I didn’t want to spend more than a minute on these drawings:

Whenever we would watch movies with people, we would have to move at least one of the couches to better face the computer. The corner with the record player always looked cluttered.

Here is the new layout:

ignore the typos and stuff…

Now each seat is in view of the computer, except the corner of the love seat by the end table.

Another nice thing is that the ugly printer, computer box, wires, poorly-shelved records, and CD notebooks are almost out of sight. We put the printer and computer box under the record player. In place of the printer we put a box of my records on the desk, so that I will see them and remember to play them more often, and they won’t fall over all the time. They are well-contained and easy to flip through. Plus they are prettier and more colorful than the printer.

Here are pictures of everything.

I finally had the sense to put the light green blanket over the back of the yellow love seat rather than the sofa. On the sofa it always looked bulky and weird, because the back is curved. Now it looks nice and neat, and maybe it helps make the sofa and love seat match a little? Maybe? Please?

This desk/computer/music station looks so much nicer than before!

See how nice the box of records is? It’s leather or something. Much prettier than the beige, dusty printer. And that is my new plant that I got yesterday. Hopefully I won’t kill it. I really like the purple scarf, too. Looks much brighter and prettier than the black plastic desk surface, and I think it looks nice with the color of the wood and the terra cotta pot. It is a small thing but I like it.

Pretty, girly corner by the love seat, where I usually sit. That is the rose Samuel gave me for Valentine’s Day. It hasn’t lost a single petal yet! Samuel said it was still alive and thriving, like our love. Then I said it would probably die in a week (the rose).

I have always loved arranging space, since I was little. When I was a young teenager I would sometimes rearrange my bedroom once a month! It was fun to do and I liked the change. Plus it made it easier to clean; you have to clean up before you can move furniture. That’s another reason why Samuel and I did this. It’s the start of our “Spring Cleaning” that I am trying to get done this month. I consider it one of my duties as a wife. Well, that’s what I say in order to get Samuel to move everything around for me, heh heh.