Visions of floorplans danced in their heads...

I have gotten back a lot of energy level in my couple of weeks' blissful freedom from gainful employment!

A week ago Wax and I even moved a bunch of furniture around, although we ran out of energy/time halfway through. Our multi-step plan was

• Swap the wall-length plant table from Wax's upstairs libroffice into the living room - into an empty space under a north window, but the genius part is that this space was the primary pathway in the bunny area and it still is, because bunnies like walking under a little roof more than out in the open. Done!





• Remove the bookcases from one wall of the libroffice (which was lined with two parallel bookcases). Half of them go to an empty wall in the bedroom; the other half go to fill in space on the opposite wall that had plants and a little cabinet in it instead of books. Done!





• The plants go down to the plant table and the cabinet goes into the bedroom where the maroon antique blanket chest was. Done!



• The maroon antique blanket chest and Wax's wfh desk setup go to the now-empty wall of the libroffice (which means rotating the desk setup 180° and moving it a couple of meters). That's where we ran out of time eight days ago, and yesterday we made coconut macaroons and root vegetable stew instead of doing it. I've mostly tidied the smaller stuff away now, but this is what it looked like when we finished last Sunday:





• Move the vintage iron single bedframe/daybed/bench up the stairs, from under the dining room window to under the libroffice window.



• The dining room table goes to where the Heteka was (now it's in the middle of the room and you can barely walk through the dining room, which has been kind of... extra furniture hangout since day 1).

I still had a lot of motivation all week, but because I'm possibly ADHD I couldn't really focus that into doing other stuff - painting furniture, steaming wallpaper, vacuuming behind the furniture - I spent most of the week backreading all 600+ pages of entries on the blog Retro Renovation (discovered some time ago, but never read in detail). This blog is concerned with restoring early and mid-20th century homes, and especially the more generic/middle class variety of them, to period-appropriate appearance, and it's a philosophy I agree with, plus I just find design history fascinating. Most of it is not applicable to our house though, except in theory, because the materials and appearance appropriate to our 1950 Finnish house are mostly quite distinct from those of a modest suburban house of this period in the US.

Of course, I grew up in the US (an 1890s double shotgun folk Victorian with Craftsman style), and my parents and sister recently bought an extremely typical 1960 suburban ranch house in Louisiana ( Read more... )

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My head is still swimming in midcentury architecture and furnishings. After I finished backreading the whole blog, I lost myself in surfing related interior stuff and added 200+ posts to my design blog (designobjectory) drafts/queue, and I had to stop myself there.