Rearranging Furniture
August 1st, 2006 at 10:53 pm (uncategorized)
When my sister and I were kids (and not killing each other*), we’d often rearrange who was in which room in our house. I’m not sure how we managed to do it all in an afternoon (before parents came home from work), or how we managed to move some of the stuff without breaking anything, or even how my mom didn’t absolutely go bonkers when she got home. There were three rooms to work with - one was mine, one was my sisters’ and the third was the spare bedroom/sewing room.
Rather than "My bedroom", etc, we would call them "The dark room", "The pink wallpaper room" and "The yellow room". The dark room had these awesome 70’s style wooden shutters that made the room completely dark. It also had a parkay wooden floor. This room was the preference if you wanted to sleep in late and ignore the rest of the world.
The pink wallpaper room was obvious - it had pink wallpaper. But only on one wall. Whoever owned the house before us and did the decorating was very trendy and before their time. Or maybe they could only afford one wall worth of wallpaper.
The yellow room, again obvious. It used to be painted yellow. And had yellow mini blinds. *shudder*. We painted the walls white at one point, but the mini blinds were still yellow. I think they still are.
I think when we moved into the house I started in the Pink room, and my sister was in the yellow room. I lived in all three rooms as the years went on. One day, Mom & Dad would come home to find the furniture from the three rooms suddenly in different rooms.
Now that all the kids are gone, my mom has the house to herself and her two cats. The dark room is her work-at-home office. The pink room is still pink, and the guest/sewing room. The yellow room is the "loom room" where she has her weaving loom and other various weaving/knitting related stuff. I think it took her all of 1 year after I was out of the house to take over. Is nothing sacred?
Virtual Furniture Rearrangement
So, you’ll notice the blog looks different. After building the new blog for the p’cock along, I realized my own personal blog was getting a bit drab and .. well, shall we say, boring? I’m playing around with new formats. Look for a new banner soon. I want something with more depth and color to it. Something, different. I think I’ll try the Pink Wallpaper room.
* There was one occasion that the neighbors actually called my mother at work because my sister and I were being so loud at each other. Slamming doors. Threatening to kill each other. An occasional swing at each other.
Teresa said,
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:57 am
Do you think? My kids are now into changing rooms, I finally evicted them from the bigger room, thats my room, because for one it still has a door. They do not have doors, thats in thanks to their brother. But I remember the screaming and the yelling going on in the house, now that we have children of our own, paybacks are on there way. Mine are doing it, and yours will too! Thanks for walking down memory lane sis.
Di said,
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Yep, those were the days. We never got very far in the independent room moving, since my bro and I were in an upstairs/downstairs sort of arrangement.
Glad to see you’re updating. I was beginning to wonder if that beby is ever going to grow! ;^D
Catherine said,
August 8th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Hey, my sis and I did that room-swap thing, too, only Mom wouldn’t allow us to move the furniture, just all the rest of the contents. Not as much fun.