Feng Shui Triumph

My entire apartment is now transformed. The problem was: I was kind of thinking inside the box with how things should be arranged. You can’t really see clearly what needs to change – but you know SOMETHING has to. My only certainty was: I need to move the desk from its current position.

So Jen arrived (she also was one of the 5 witches, by the way), and after a long time spent in my cozy kitchen, eating brie and crackers and olives, drinking wine, talking, laughing, we tackled the project.

Desk was moved. Huge bookshelf moved. Bedside table replaced with small bookcase. TV moved (that was a RADICAL choice, completely outside the box and gave me an anxiety attack for about 2 minutes, but it works!!) We moved my rug. Now there are lots of diagonals in my one small room. Rug placed on the diagonal, TV slanted inward, my comfy chair placed diagonally – and somehow (Stevie, am I insane?) having a couple of diagonals going on changes the character and feel of a room completely. I swear that by making a couple of diagonal placement-choices I have just made the room bigger.

We were on fast-forward. We moved with firmness and dispatch. We Endusted everything in sight. We tried out lamps here, there, we placed mirrors about, we tried plants in this corner, no, in that corner … until finally all of that stopped, we looked around, and could see that everything was now exactly where it should be. The room declared: “Okay, stop!” to us. We stopped fussing and fidgeting with it.

I love where my desk now is. I look at it, and feel like sitting there and working. I basically want to just hang out all weekend, and putter around my apartment. Especially because it’s pouring rain and bleak out today. But I’m going to the Metropolitan Museum today, to wander about the vaulted halls, losing myself in art appreciation … but I get to come back home after that, and walk around, looking at the new placement of things – another form of “art appreciation”, indeed. I will revel in the surprise that it is still the same room.

Do other people get such intense pleasure out of things that are so small? I love how the light from my lamp spills out onto my pale yellow walls. I love that. I stare at it, and sigh with pleasure. I love seeing my grandmother’s blue chest on the Oriental rug. The blue chest (one of my favorite possessions) wasn’t really shown off the way I had the room before. Now it is. I could sit and stare at the blue chest for an hour and not get tired of it. I love looking at my desk, with the map of the world on the wall above it. I love the end-table that I have now brought out into the room – before it was used as a bedside table, and could not be seen. I love how my candle looks in its holder on top of it. I love the silver-framed picture of Cashel and Brendan next to the candle. It makes everything look nice and homey.

That’s what I’m going to do tomorrow (until game-time, that is). Putter about incessantly. Reveling in my new room.

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7 Responses to Feng Shui Triumph

  1. mere says:

    sounds great. I have 2 rooms that are on diagonals right now. it changes the whole atmosphere.
    i love re-arranging furniture. probably a little too much.

  2. Anne says:

    I just tried to head out, my umbrella bent back, and I got involved trying to straighten it out, got completely soaked, and went immediately back in and made myself a cup of tea. Don’t think I’m going anywhere today.

  3. Stevie says:

    Fantastic! Cheers!!!

  4. peteb says:

    Ah.. diagonals!!.. if only my yurt was large enough for a diagonal arrangement of my furniture..

    Here’s to even more creative sparks from those angles. Cheers!

    ..and puttering about is the best way to be. :)

  5. red says:

    I’m really really happy with it. It actually feels like I’ve moved to a different apartment.

  6. Just1Beth says:

    Mere- do you do diagonals in the yard? I just noticed how much my yard needs to be addressed…ha ha

  7. Patrick says:

    Sheila, the narrative in the fourth paragraph could be straight out of an English novel.

    I’ve been inspired to reconsider my apartment.

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