Furniture Moving

Here we are, close to the midpoint of summer, which for me is Music Week--although as I think about it, for me, the midpoint was really a few weeks ago.  Music Week starts on Sunday, and my summer shifts a bit.  I'll be more involved at Lutheridge, after my seminary class ends Tuesday.

My mom and dad are coming for Lutheridge, but they'll have lodging at camp; we'll do happy hour down here at our house.  My former pastor and his wife will be staying with us; she'll be part of Music Week, and he'll be taking all sorts of pictures.  We've been trying to get the house into better shape for next week's festivities, and this yesterday, we made great progress.

When we first moved to this house, we bought a sleep sofa (the one in the picture above).  We had a hazy plan that we'd have a sleep sofa in the main living area and a futon/daybed option in the second main floor bedroom, which we primarily use as a study.  But as we've lived in the house, we've seen better possibilities for the layout:  move the sleep sofa into the study and get some smaller furniture to go with the two larger chairs in the living area.

We have since replaced the sliding glass doors with more energy efficient models, which meant that it was no longer easy to move the sofa through the doors, which is one way to get from the main living area to the study, outside across the deck.  Happily, my spouse figured out how to take the feet off the sofa, which meant we could move it through the house.  We also had to remove the door to the study and then put it back, but happily, that was easy.

The filing cabinet has been in the middle of our main living space, along with a teak table and two bar stools that used to be on our beautiful front porch in S. Florida.  We moved the filing cabinet to the study, and we moved the teak table and chairs to the deck, under the tented portion of the deck that means we can use the deck when it rains.  

I went to pick up the table and chairs that we bought on Monday, a much smaller table and chairs than the teak table and bar stools.  Yesterday we assembled them and put them in place:

The sides of the table can be extended to turn it into a round table, which means four people could eat dinner comfortably, and more, if we seated them creatively.  But most important, we can move around the kitchen without bumping into furniture.

There's still a lot of work left to do before the house is "finished."  I'm not showing pictures of unpainted drywall, or of the loft which is much further away from being "finished" than the lower level.  I've got some sorting to do of the piles that are on the desk in the study:

It's a much less Instagram-ready photo, isn't it?  But I like that it gives an idea of how we're more likely to live, a more honest look.