F calls it an office these days. It has been called all sorts of things since we lived here because it is the least useful room in the house, but these days it is the most occupied one. It is a space between the dining room and lounge at one end of the 'foyer' (if we could use such a grand word for the entrance space in our house). It is only just big enough to fit a single bed, but with a single bed in here you couldn't get the door open, so my humans took the door off.
Originally it had a Stompa bunk bed with a a settee underneath that pulled out into a short double bed. in those days I wasn't allowed to sleep on beds (still not truth be known - except F and Mr B's bed) but my humans are too short to realize that I had found my way onto the top bunk and claimed it as my own until one day they were checking it for Mr B's daughter to stay over (there was a big patch of grey fur on the yellow quilt cover).
At least 4 iterations of other furniture arrangements were made in there - bed settees (2), folding Z-beds, drop leaf table for the sewing machines and so on but it had never been a really useful space.
Since we got back from Greece and F works from home 2 days a week it has become her office and they built a desk out of two filing cabinets and a piece of plywood. It is (as it was before we left for Greece) storage for all the sewing, and for things that would go in a cupboard in a normally provisioned house (ironing board and vacuum cleaner, small stepladder thing for reaching high cupboards (that should be in the kitchen but doesn't fit), model yacht that doesn't have a home anywhere else, and exercise equipment, and a folding screen that stands in as a door if it ever needs a privacy screen).
F spends more time in here now than anywhere else except bed.
It is, F says, like being back in her GK24 (Westerly yacht) in South Dock, London (where she used to live during the week). Imagine sleeping, eating, and having all her music and crafting kit stuffed into a 24 foot boat with a point at each end, and about 4 foot 6 of head room (meaning no normal person could stand up straight in it). She used to sit at her saloon table surrounded by piles and bags of fabrics, her ukulele, and her spoon carving kit. Spoon carving in that space made a heck of a mess and I'm glad she doesn't do that in our little office. She used to do her ankle exercises standing on the companionway step with her head out the hatch....here she can go and do them on the bottom stair.
In summary it is a bomb site and it looks even worse now that the scrap patchworking bits are all over the desk and the ironing board.
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| The cross-eyed guy at the top was carved by F to keep watch over our old allotment shed |
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| Me supervising from the ironing board |
Well, it may be rather full but it still looks quite organised. I bet F knows where everything is in there.
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't. There is regular scrabbling around and emptying of shelves and baskets, Mr T was probably the only one who knew where everything is and he would just sit and roll his eyes at me when I go to the hair tearing stages.
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ReplyDeleteI recken not too many bombsites are that organised, a place for everything and everything (mostly) in its place, angel Tigger mate. It is a very creative space, methinks - and on the whole, that is no bad thing! Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
I agree with the comments above. The thought that this space was rather too well organised for a bomb site struck me also!
ReplyDeleteCheers, Gail.
PS Have F ever heard the theory that the most efficient way to sort your papers and stuff is never to sort them? That way, the things you use most often naturally rise to the top and so are quickest to find.
to me it looks like you have done a great job of using that space, organized for use of what you do in daily life. I have not touched my iron since 2006, but then I don't sew and i assume it is used in all the sewing you do. i know a few people who sew and that there is a lot of storage required for that. it looks great to me and perfect for what you love to do..
ReplyDeleteF has made very good use of an awkward space. It's a bit harsh to call it a bomb site.
ReplyDeleteFunny how we still refer to bombsites. In the US less likely though, most people not having experienced them in rl. Construction zone is more likely. That's a better description, I think, for a room where so much gets constructed.
ReplyDeleteWow your bomb didn’t work well at all. It looks pretty organised to me
ReplyDeleteYou do have a lot of stuff packed in there. Great use of space is what I would call it