I need a spouse....or a butler...or a concierge.

We who may be about to die salute you.

I am about to Move The Television.

Those of you who have previously followed the trivial and mind-numbingly boring (except to me) Adventures of Deb the Re-Decorator may recall that this is a task more suited to Herakles than moi.

However, at lewast this time, I am moving it down, rather than up.

One hopes for a controlled and slow fall, of sorts.

Anyhoo, if you never hear from me again, it fell on me and killed me.

Smooches to all.

First attempt failed.

One realises, sadly, that one had to stop working with weights, because it hurt one's shoulders, and one is weaker than last time.


About to try a different method, involving numerous cushions.

One is crossing one's paws.

Wishing one well.

I have these kind of situations from time to time too. For example, I can't lift the desk top for my drafting table, and having it drop on my foot might just do me in.

I did it!!!!


Now I have to move the DVD/set-top box stuff to a different cupboard in the thing, but that's easy.

Next.....hope to move all my music equipment into another cupboard of the same cabinet...not so easy.


Then.....I have to decide if I can use the old music cabinet, or need to sell it, and start moving other stuff around.

At present, my living room looks like an untidy used furniture shop....but one must hop off to one's Sunday social engagements!

That's my whole place, the untidy furniture shop.. including the garage.

Have fun on the social whirl..

Fortunately for us we have a plumber that is a friend ... or is it a friend that is a plumber? Yeah a friend that is also a plumber.

Good thing our hot water heater started to leak - he came over, called a hot water heater supplier and we got one within a half hour. He brought his kids over that night and fixed it. Imagine that a plumber on a Saturday night? Of course we will pay him the going rate he changes, but we don't get charged extra for the 24 type service.

It helps quite a bit to "know" some one - you know they will do a good job at a reasonable price and often times work around your schedule.

You could probably grab a homeless person off the street. They ain't doing nothing any way and all you need to do pay him is some cheap wine. (or mouth wash).

I have now moved the DVD etc into a different, and better cupboard in the thing.

About to move the music machines...after much anxious measurement!!!

If they fit, I have a friend who wants my lovely wooden slat cabinet...which is way cool, because I love it and I prefer it goes to someone I really like.

Can I lift the music things all together (because Lord knows, I would never be able to re-connect them if I took them apart)?

How music machines have changed since 1992!

I know I am talking to myself....but who gives a damn!


NEVER DECIDE TO MAKE MAJOR APARTMENT CHANGES.


I have been living in a used furniture cum junk shop for what seems like forever!!!!

There is SOME progress.

The 2 new bookcases I bought a year ago aree finally assembled, and, may I say, for DIY cheapise they look WONDERFUL.

So...the bedroom becoming study/study becoming bedroom masterplan is proceeding.

To the extent that the new bookcases are in the bedroom.

Meaning that my dressing table is set against the windows.

I am STILL, though, utterly overwhelmed by books and bookcases. I HAVE to have some extra storage...this means that some bookcases have to go....this means that a LOT of books have to go.

Currently, I have 14 bookcases. Two small ones are now empty. A few bigger ones now have some space in them........I need to be able to have some of them ready to go when the rubbish removal people come tomorrow.

In my living room, as we speak, there are:

The big new corner sofa I bought. (MUCH bigger than it was in the shop!!)

There is one of my old sofas, queued to go into the new study when it emerges from the chaos.

Two empty bookcases.

One newly assembled (after 3 years in two boxes) and largeish new computer desk. (MUCH bigger than it was in the shop!!)

My new (MUCH bigger than it was in the shop!!) Chinese buffet, with all the entertainment equipment nestling in its cupboards, and a TV on it.

There is the old television Chinese cabinet...destined to become storeage...but unable to go where it needs to go, because....

the antique Indian chest (MUCH bigger than it was in the shop!!) which is slated to go either into the corridor to put stuff like letters and such on, or to become the coffee table in the new study, is unable to move because the OLD music cabinet is in the corridor, where it has been for a couple of months, and has not yet been picked up by the friend who swears she wants it, but won't come and collect it!

my huge and lovely bookcase/display thingy, made of wenge looking wood

my sweet white display case/bookcase

my dining table and chairs, currently buried in junk that is being sorted

my two tier mini-supermarket trolley full of books, and surrounded by other books, which need taking to a second hand bookshop (though maybe I can get them to come here?)

6 huge cardboard boxes the bookcases and computer desk came in

My lovely black Himalayan Hill Tribe chest, which was apparently used for rice storeage, and comes apart in a trice to be nomadded with.

My lovely narrow Indonesian coffee table.

PILES of crap....like the storeage things to go in the pantry cupboard when it comes to its turn to be cleaned out.


I won't even TALK about the current study!!!!


I need a genie now!

Certainly one bigger than in the shop!

(And please send him afterwards to us.)

Well, deb, here you are typing this at your new computer desk.....but still in the old study.

Today's achievements were to have the rubbish disposal man come and take away 4 bookcases, sundry crap, my old computer desk, sundry more crap and some more crap after that.


Then, I got some book people in, and they paid me a pittance to get the fruits of my latest cull.

I am sitting amidst the rubble of the study, need to do more book culling, more crap culling, really clean the study......then comes the Great Moment when I see if I really can convert this room into a bedroom!!!


My measurements tell me I can....just...but we know how reality obtrudes.

My computer desk has CUPBOARDS for relevant books and papers...TWO of them!! It has two little racks for CDs or CD Roms. It has some shelves.

, you're dressing in front of the windows

now where did i put those binoculars

hmmm, the rabbit says she's redecorating/renovating

but recent photographic evidence shows she needs the space for a new acquisition

I'm not really renovating right now...I am more kind of pruning and cleansing and moving stuff around.

To all my non-existent readers who have been waiting with bated breath to hear how all the cursed purging and moving around has been going.

I have been sleeping in my old study for about two weeks. Began really setting it up as a bedroom last weekend, after ascertaining that, although cramped, it DOES work as a bedroom.

TONIGHT I MOVED THE SPARE SOFA INTO THE NEW "LIBRARY"!!!!

I had made a couple of previous attempts, and realized I had to move heaps of stuff to get it into the new room.

Then, just now, after doing so, I believed it just would not fit into the room...but, after turning it on its side, and then on its end, I DID IT!!!


I am on the downhill run....just endless finding places to store stuff, putting the books and bookcase I just had to move back where it belongs...more Goodwill donations of stuff that will be culled, and finally figuring out how to configure the newly liberated living room....oh, and cleaning and painting.

How can a relatively small manouevre in a small apartment be so much work and drudgery and TIME?

It can be, it can be.

My own simple little curtain project has mutated beyond recognition. (Can you get from putting up curtains in the bedroom to completely organizing 8 years of sozlet pics in only 2 steps?)

Congrats on the progress!

Signed,
existent and breath-bated reader

Here's a second existing reader. I congratulate you on your success!

Existing and exhausted reader # 3 checking in.




I just spent nearly 5 hours with brendalee sorting clothes in one corner of my bedroom. 3 jumbo bags have departed for bl and her daughter, 5 jumbo bags left to be deposited at a shelter, we found enough empty bags to fill 3 bags, there were 2 bags of clothes to throw out and 3 bags (plus the enormous 1 bl arrived with) that will be gone through again in anticipation of a delivery to a friend in need of a work wardrobe. brendalee is coming back tomorrow for another round of sorting/disposing/purging/sorting.

Wow. That's a lot of clothes.

I'm glad they're going to a good home.

That's nothing.

hamburger helped me with a big clothing purge about 10 years ago - we took 17 green garbage bags of clothes and bedding to Goodwill that weekend.




Of course, some of the knit jackets we packed up today had shoulder pads in them - they were still in good condition, they fit again, they might have come back into fashion ...


... and I found some socks errrr mebbe a hundred pairs of socks and 30 or so singletons

I won't ever need to buy socks again.

I probably didn't need to buy socks about 5 years ago.

Purging is good.