{"id":20936,"date":"2025-07-24T20:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:43:35","slug":"daily_3796_-_interior_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/daily_3796_-_interior_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3796 &#8211; interior day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The basement was nice and cool in the thirty-degree heat we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>A free-standing wardrobe, together with some bookshelves, used to split my bedroom into two &#8211; a bedroom side and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/04\/16\/daily_1922_-_self_working\/\">an office side<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a weird room now, though. There&#8217;s furniture around the edges &#8211; 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&#8217;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3796_bedroom_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s painting of sunflowers, where it was always intended to be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3796_art_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3796_art_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two large botanically-themed photo prints went up in the forest room, as well as another one of my embroideries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3796_art_4.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I hung up the prints, they were not at all level with each other. I was all shocked &#8211; 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&#8217;t match each other &#8211; the grooves for the string were not at the same distance for the two, at all. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3796_art_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basement was nice and cool in the thirty-degree heat we&#8217;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 &#8211; a bedroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20942,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions\/20942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}