Happy Wednesday, Pubski, I should like to play Tetris with you. Also known as, how small really is an 11x12 bedroom? Is it insanely small, as my mother would tell me/you? Or is my mother spoiled because her bedroom is like, 20x15 with a bathroom suite inside, or some ludicrous footage along those lines? It looks like a queen bed could fit comfortably in this space with no issues. Don't ask me where the closet or the door are because I don't know. Same for windows. I can report back and let you know tomorrow. Assume the only other furniture is a dresser of approximately 3 x 4.5 feet. HELP.
Pretty, but not helping. Assume I cannot afford to spend money on new furniture and also that I really only care to have the following items (already owned) in my bedroom: - bed - dresser - lamp (well OK, I actually don't have a lamp) - fold-up bedside "stand"/table It would work, right? I'm seeing a house tomorrow that I want to buy. Because it's gorgeous and it's in a great location and in many ways has EVERYTHING in its favor - except the bedrooms, which come in at 11x12, 14x8, and some other even-smaller thing. But consider: I will be living alone, do not anticipate roommates or co-habitating, and no kids or renters in foreseeable future. I realize I'm trying to force a favorable reaction to the bedroom size without even seeing the house. But GOT DAMN it's got everything I want. Except maybe for tiny, iddle-widdle beddywooms.
Wearing a more serious face (and knowing you're actually buying it - wait what?) consider: How much time do you plan to spend in your bedroom? Because once you have a whole, unshared house, a great way to use a bedroom is for sleeping and sexing and little else, so you need almost nothing in there. Further, if you have three bedrooms and don't plan on renting any of them out, you have a bedroom, an office and a walk in closet and the the rest of the house is your playground. Choose the big room. Put the bed in it. Middle for your office. Little for clothes. Spread out. Those photos look amazing by the way.
Super excited. I haven't even seen the place but it has everything I want, great location, great features, great price. I talked on Hubski a bit ago about my mom pressuring me to buy a house and I was just like "she's nuts." However I've had a yearish to rest on it and get my finances more straightened out - which I have, though still in the process, but incredibly rewarding - and I really do want this. I want my own place, I don't want to move every year anymore (though really, did I ever? Moving' snot fun) and I want the freedom of living alone slash with various animals. (Talk me out of getting a dog, everyone, please. I know it's not a good idea. I probably won't. But feel free to help convince me.) This is only the sixth house I'll go see so it would be a little crazy but it has so much and the price is perfect. I want this so bad. and I have to shout out to my parents and thank them for letting me live at their house on super reduced rent for the past four months (and until I do buy a house) for helping me get here. And also, start appreciating my job a fuck more. I'm twerkin' on it. I'm incredibly lucky to be where I am right now in 2015: the writing's going great, the job loves me, I'm trying - and going to - buy my own fuckin' house. Need to remember that.
My room in Calgary was about the same size as yours. I had a queen bed in the top right corner, a small-ish desk in the top left and the dresser in the bottom left. I think that as long as you can fit the bed in one of the corners, the rest will fit. I mean, you can fit the long side of the bed and the dresser and it will fit in the short side of the room (6' + 4.5' = 10.5'). How much room do you really need?
Thanks, that's helpful. I am going to check out where the closet and window(s) and door are located tomorrow and I hope that helps too. On paper, it looks like enough space. Since I will have the whole house I should have plenty of room to fit a desk, I figure.
I've always kind of wondered if there could be a kind of murphy bed that, instead of folding into a cabinet, rose up to the ceiling and was held there by a counter weight? hmm... something like this, but my idea was infinitely more janky, with pullies and that yellow nylon rope that seems to be available at every hardware store.
You can suspend beds from the ceiling, for sure, but you have to build the ceiling for it. Most ceiling joists aren't particularly load-bearing. That's actually a lot less janky than what you linked - the part they don't show you on the wall? Yeah, that's basically a forklift built into your house. All you're seeing is the tines. Everything else is hidden in the wall somewhere - that's the kind of structure this neat little trick uses. Kill-you-dead level structure. It's like this thing. note the amount of effort he goes through to document what a bitch it is to get those magnets apart. Now ask yourself if you want to sleep on top of eight of those and just how hairy it's gonna get when the guy wires go.
XL peruvian. You want the giant, hand-woven kind without spreader bars. Like this one. If you're anywhere vaguely cold you'll want a sleeping bag or something; the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Trust me, you can say the very same thing about air mattresses. The one thing I didn't anticipate is that if the air in your room gets cold, you can't wrap in a blanket and be fine, because the air in your mattress will also freeze. I've been using a sleeping bag. That's surprisingly cheap. I was thinking of the $50 camping-style ones that compress for storage. But they aren't great for sleeping and this one looks way nicer.the trickiest thing about hammocks is you get cold from below as well as above.
Not gonna lie. Had an air mattress, too - I'd say I spent 70% of my time in the hammock and 30 on the air mattress. Pile a bunch of blankets on top of it, it helps. Hammocks.com used to be awesome. They still seem to have a bunch of stuff under wayfair or whatever but their prices went up. You want a "family-size" hammock. Me and the wife have shared it. She doesn't like it because i weigh roughly twice what she does so it conforms to me while she kinda gets to deal. But if it's just you? Hoo boy. Theyz nice. Mine is currently on my deck.