The basement was nice and cool in the thirty-degree heat we’ve had, but after two days spent down there, I needed a break. Today was interior decorating day. Also today was less hot so it worked out nicely.

A free-standing wardrobe, together with some bookshelves, used to split my bedroom into two – a bedroom side and an office side, both rather small. With the wardrobe gone as of yesterday, and after me moving furniture around today, the room is back to being one space. (Moving a bookshelf is bloody tedious.) Much more open, light and spacious.

It’s a weird room now, though. There’s furniture around the edges – and a giant empty space in the middle. And two ceiling lights for a single room. The light fixtures are an easy fix, but I don’t know what to do with the room itself. A bigger bed, yes. But then what? What do I use the rest of the space for? Where do I put the dresser and the mirror? I’m probably letting the current configuration (especially the wall shelf above the bed) steer my thoughts too much. Time to get out squared paper and make a mockup starting from scratch.

While the bedroom thoughts are marinating, I finally hung up pictures that have been waiting for months. My Stockholm embroidery is now hanging in the sun room, next to Ingrid’s painting of sunflowers, where it was always intended to be.

Two large botanically-themed photo prints went up in the forest room, as well as another one of my embroideries.

When I hung up the prints, they were not at all level with each other. I was all shocked – I thought I was so careful when measuring out the positions for the wall hooks. And I had been! It turned out that the magnetic poster hangers didn’t match each other – the grooves for the string were not at the same distance for the two, at all.