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I made my bed, and I got to lie in it!
Jul. 9th, 2006 06:17 amSo the work on my room finally progressed to the point where I couldset up the bed Matt bought me as a birthday present. It's a beautiful, black metal-frame bed, the nicest one I've owned.
Actually, this is the first room I've ever had where I feel I can decorate -- most of my rooms have been places to store stuff, and any attempts at decoration were more like damage control than anything else. I spent most of my week sanding and then staining shelves to match drapes.
These Verdun Human Filing Cabinets (my name for these stacked duplexes) are really nice inside, though always oddly proportioned. My room is the same width as my last two rooms, but at least twice the length. Meanwhile, the living room is more of a bulge in the corridor between the front door corridor and the kitchen. The kitchen is huge, and the bathroom is tiny.
Still, it's an old place with a lot of character. New apartments in Montreal seem to be airless, soulless, unhappy places with stained rugs that emit a swampy miasma of ten years' worth of smells. And hardwood floors are a definite plus to anyone with cats.
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em_fish yesterday went very smoothly. Next Saturday we get her big furniture. Next Sunday, there shall be a game. And next Friday, those in town who can do evenings might want to come to a drag show fundraiser for the NDP, which montrealais has worked very hard on :)
Actually, this is the first room I've ever had where I feel I can decorate -- most of my rooms have been places to store stuff, and any attempts at decoration were more like damage control than anything else. I spent most of my week sanding and then staining shelves to match drapes.
These Verdun Human Filing Cabinets (my name for these stacked duplexes) are really nice inside, though always oddly proportioned. My room is the same width as my last two rooms, but at least twice the length. Meanwhile, the living room is more of a bulge in the corridor between the front door corridor and the kitchen. The kitchen is huge, and the bathroom is tiny.
Still, it's an old place with a lot of character. New apartments in Montreal seem to be airless, soulless, unhappy places with stained rugs that emit a swampy miasma of ten years' worth of smells. And hardwood floors are a definite plus to anyone with cats.
Moving
em_fish yesterday went very smoothly. Next Saturday we get her big furniture. Next Sunday, there shall be a game. And next Friday, those in town who can do evenings might want to come to a drag show fundraiser for the NDP, which montrealais has worked very hard on :)