It's THAT time of the year again

[witchpoetdreamer]

Spring cleaning? No. Quarterly rearranging of a room! Now that I live in a house with my spouse (and we both get the neurospicy genes that makes the brain go brr seeing rooms in a new layout), I got more than just my bedroom to play with! This time around? The living room. It's easily the least manageable of all the rooms we have (because of weird wall placements + how small it is). On top of that, we got those two, massive rococo style couches that makes for a more difficult arrangement (I say rococo because that's more the style we're intending this room to be, but it can fit any kind of opulent vintage style really. It's rococo going on baroque, it's whimsygoth meets studio ghibli, it's cottagecore meets dark academia. It's Alphonse Mucha. It's Bridgerton. You see the vision?).

One thing that this whole moving around does help with is that, since I'm doing all this, might as well do all the cleaning at the same time, you know? So it does become a bit of a spring cleaning regardless. It's just spring cleaning with a goal that is not just getting the cleaning done, and I think that makes up for the hours of sweeping and vacuuming and dusting and moping and throwing away the trash. All that not fun stuff to make way for the actual fun stuff afterwards.

I might draw a before and after of the layout when I'm done (and when I bother to get my drawing tablet from upstairs). But here's a picture of what the two sofas look like (it's the sofa and the loveseat in the middle and on the right, we don't have the single person chair and the table):

Comments

[yeahjukes]

Ooh very nice! I can see how styling around those sofas could be challenging, but they seem like kind of "feature pieces" in the room. That + everything in a whole new configuration will make for a super rewarding rearrangement, I bet. (I, too, love a good occasional reconfiguration! I would totally be doing it to my bedroom more often if the walls & general layout allowed for more than one possible configuration 😭)

[wpadmirer]

We have a couch. It was the one that was in my mother's living room from the time I was 12 until she left there in the late 90s. That's when it became mine. Of course, right now it's buried behind a bunch of boxes of Pat's art "stuff." But we know it's there.

[amycles]

I would also rearrange my furniture on a near monthly basis, so I understand the feeling! Unfortunately, I live in a space that's seemingly designed with a specific configuration in mind.

I love the idea of a dark academia/Bridgerton vibe.