Reorganisation

The plumber turned up next door at 07.15 this morning, I thought 'oh no, really?!  That definitely is taking the p**s!'.  However, seems he just came to pick up some tool he forgot yesterday, he left again straight away and there's no sign of any other workmen yet.  Perhaps they're giving us a day off.  The scaffolding's still up, no idea when that's being taken down, it's been there well over a month now and they did the roof weeks ago.

I had another terrible night, my sleep pattern (well, lack of) is just getting worse and worse, I got up about 04.20 this morning after tossing and turning for an hour or so.  Roll on next Tues when I see my GP about the Sleepstation referral thing.

I've been thinking about doing a bit of reorganisation indoors.  Our lounge is quite small and looks cramped with a leather 3 seater sofa and 2 large leather armchairs, a fairly big desk and large office chair and a sideboard.  It doesn't help that the chimney breast (out of use and boarded up, so serves no purpose) sticks out quite a lot taking up valuable space, nothing we can do about that, however.  I'm thinking about getting rid of the desk and sideboard and getting a corner desk to fit in one of the alcoves either side of the fireplace.  The TV and computer can go on top, and we'll get one of those kneeling stool/chair things to go under the desk, so it doesn't obstruct the telly view.  I had one a few years ago and they are surprisingly comfortable.  Then one of the armchairs can go in the other alcove, that'll make better use of the space.  Won't be able to see the TV from that armchair, but that's fine by me, I'll sit there and read or play on the laptop whilst husband falls asleep on the sofa in front of the TV (I don't know why he puts it on really, he's never awake long enough to watch a whole programme!)

The other room that needs sorting out is the dining room.  I currently do my cardmaking on the dining table, which means I have to keep putting everything away in my boxes, which then clutter up the place.  We do have 2 spare bedrooms but I don't want to use either of them.  The landing is quite big, it currently houses my Ikea 8-drawer set with all my yarn in (erm, plus a couple of boxes on top for the surplus!) and a large heavy duty exercise bike.  Which is almost never used....it hurts my hip to use it, and husband is too busy.  (Or asleep, lol).

So I'm thinking about getting rid of the bike, and getting a desk or table to go in that space on the landing.  A desk would be better actually, as it'll have drawers and/or shelves.  The desk we have in the lounge is too big though, so can't use that.  Our landing is lovely and light, with a big window right opposite, so would be perfect for my crafting.

So now I need to keep a lookout for a nice secondhand corner unit for the lounge, and small desk for the landing, in wood - we never buy any furniture new nowadays.  I'll try selling the sideboard, desk and bike on our neighbourhood website, they have a For Sale section on there.  There might well be someone selling what I want, if I'm lucky.