"New" Digs

A couple of months ago Bruce got a bee in his bonnet (besides the acting bee, I mean...  This was a completely different bee!). He thought we should rearrange our bedroom. Well, our room is on the second floor of the house; it has a sloped ceiling and one gable. Our bed sits in the gable part of the room, which is just big enough to hold a queen-size bed. The rest of our stuff  is just fitted in however we could do it––and I thought we managed it pretty cleverly, too, considering how little standing-up space there is. I was pretty sure we could not rearrange our furniture.

This is what our room has looked like for the past year.

But Bruce said, what if we put our bed into the small nook under the eave–where my (Loralee's) dresser is now? Well, that sounded kind of claustrophobic! Nevertheless, I put it to simmer on a back-burner in my mind and finally it cooked enough that I decided to try it out. We figured if we hated sleeping under there, we would just move everything back to where it was. ('Cause doesn't that sound like a lot of fun?)

So after a perfunctory pre-cleaning, Bruce moved my dresser in front of the closet (left of the computer), and we pulled all the stuff we had stored behind both our dressers and piled it on and around that same space. We thought our bed might be too tall to go under the eave if we left the box-spring under the mattress (forget about the bed-frames!). So we tried to store the box-spring under the west eave. But it was too long.

The look on his face says it all...
Bruce loves rearranging the room!
(But it was his idea.)

On second thought, maybe the best place for the box-spring really would be under the mattress.

Here's how the room turned out:

(You may notice the mirror got replaced with a picture.)

This looks promising...  (and there's the mirror!)

nice...

And this looks cozy!
But the question remains, what will it be like to sleep in there?

And the answer is...
It is just fine to sleep under there. Lovely, in fact.
(Although it is really hard to make the bed.)

And guess what? We like it. A lot.

And this is what Bruce was after in the first place—
some floor-space (and some head-space, too), and a place to sit down. :-)

It feels so spacious! Room to stand, room to walk around, room to change our clothes, a place to sit... Fabulous!