After a meal al fresco, we continued downtown for ice cream sandwiches at Chocolate Haven. Yum!***
The only knitting accomplished today was a little bit of this sock for Summer of Socks. It is the second of the pair.
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***Now a question for those of you with a sense of design / proper furniture arrangement. (We have none.)
Here is the way the far wall of our living room looked before we emptied and moved three bookcases into our bedroom in anticipation of painting the walls next week.
This is what it looks like right now, without the thinner bookcases. The question: When we return the thinner cases, should we slide the 3 thicker pieces into the left corner and put the two thinner cases together on the right side near the balcony door? Or, should we move one of the two narrow-thick cabinet cases (shown) into the left hand space with the bookcases on the right near the balcony door? Or, should we leave everything alone and return it to how it was with the thin cases flanking the thicker ones?
(The space to the right of the balcony door holds a third book case.)So? Any ideas? You have until probably Monday evening since we will probably paint during the day on Monday. Nothing exciting -- all white again. Tuesday we do the dining room / hallway and hopefully can finally call this place finished after last summer's construction fiasco.
Feel free to ask questions.
4 comments:
It's really hard to say about the furniture arrangement without being in the room! I just wanted to recommend a book my mum gave me when I moved house recently, it's called 'Use what you have decorating'. (Amazon link) Some of the writing is a bit cheesy ("Meet Bob and Jane. Bob has a collection of antique golf clubs which Jane wants to display..."), but the ideas are really good, and it was easy to apply the advice to my own furniture arrangement problems.
Sorry, I have no furniture sense either. But... Chocolate Haven has ice cream sandwiches?! Hm, I think I need to go to Purl.
Personally, I move the larger, deeper bookcases to the left as far as possible, and the thinner near the balcony. This will allow more natural light to come in, and really help to open that area up a bit more. The larger bookcases are so deep and heavy, they almost overpower the wall. But, by moving them to line the up on the left will give you more much-needed space to the right.
I think I want my ashes scattered at Chocolate Haven. Just sayin'...
I agree with Dave. Although, I wonder what your housekeeper thinks. ;^)
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