In 1999, we demolished our home to build a new one. After a painstaking, and surprisingly mathematic process, we chose an open house plan (open floor plans are highly over-rated in my opinion, unless you have parties like 5 days a week) that met all but one of our criteria (a three car garage). Shortly after we moved in to our newly built home, it became apparent that the furniture arrangement was far from ideal. The living room is long and narrow, therefore, the seating area was long and narrow making conversation awkward. I've spent the last 11-1/2 years racking my brain for ideas to solve this conundrum. There just didn't seem to be any other practical arrangement. Finally, about a month ago, we bought new furniture and I vowed to make my living space more user friendly. I still didn't have a plan, but I had a spare evening and a reluctant husband to help me. Together, we just started moving things around. After three hours of swapping places, removing, replacing, sliding, and angling 2 recliners, a couch, a bench seat, and entertainment center, we did it. My new living room is perfect for chatting, tv viewing, and is even open to the kitchen area. Revolutionary. There's not a bad seat in the house.
It occurs to me that I can approach most of my issues with this tactic. Instead of waiting for a perfect solution to develop in my head, I need to just start trying stuff. There's no need to commit to any arrangement until I'm satisfied that I have just what I want, or at least some improvement. It might even take less than a decade to stumble across the answer to my next problem.
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