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Places to Sleep

Posted on 06. Aug, 2008 by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects

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This afternoon I wrote about places to sit; now I tell tales of places to sleep.

Our house has three bedrooms. All three rooms have been stripped down to the studs. Two bedrooms are still in stud-form: one bedroom is packed to the seams with our stuff, since we haven’t unpacked anything but the necessities since we moved in, and the other bedroom serves as a work shop/tool storage area at the moment.

The third bedroom shines as a beacon of sanity. This room will eventually be our spare bedroom, and for now it’s where we sleep.

Here you can see the spare bedroom as it was a few weeks after we moved in. This photograph actually makes the room look quite cute, but believe me when I say that hideous surprises lurked in every nook and cranny.

Before this photograph was taken, we removed the 1950s linoleum flooring and killed upwards of 200 large house flies in this room alone. Elsewhere in this very room the wall paper was peeling off the wall, and underneath the wallpaper slept literally hundreds of large dormant house flies who had made the room their home during the cold winter. We spent a few days vacuuming and smashing as many huge house flies as we could. We would think that we’d got them all, then, two hours later, the room would be swarming again.  And let’s not talk about the mouse houses.

Of course, we needed to insulate the room, so out came, well, everything. We did salvage the original trim, but we’re using it in other parts of the house.

It’s also interesting to note the changing of the seasons through the window!

While we were working on this bedroom, we were sleeping outside in our car in the middle of Winter, so you can imagine our motivation.

Here’s the finished product. Simple, simple, simple, but clean, clean, clean.

This bedroom gets the most glorious morning sunshine right across the bed, and I envision this room as a great place to read a book in the mornings.

At night, while lying in bed you can look right up at the stars; when it’s clear, you can see HUNDREDS of stars. In July, there was a star so bright that we thought it had to be something of another world. After much research, it turned out to be Jupiter, the gigantic planet–the planet that has a storm on it that is bigger than Earth! (I can’t think about that too much or it makes my mind explode.)

One night the moon was so bright that we tried to read by its light alone; it was just a smidgen too dark to actually make out any words, but it was almost possible. We both kept trying to just focus a little harder with our eyes, but we never quite got it.

When we lived in the city, I wasn’t too keen of a star-gazer, but it’s impossible not to be fascinated by the stars when they keep you company at night.

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