I am normally a very flexible person - but I have to say that I'm not big on furniture rearrangements, especially those that occur without my knowledge or blessing.
That being said - and getting back to the aforementioned "flexibility" characteristic which I think is one of the primary pillars of my sanity - I'm going to try and sit with the possibilities of how this can be a good thing.
The backstory - it's Saturday, it's sunny and Sophia and I take the mid-morning air to meet a friend at Chaco Canyon and appreciate the offerings of our University District Farmer's Market. My hair-on-fire husband, who's working several contracts at the moment, takes a breather and walks us part of the way there. Conversation was completely ordinary and uneventful. Things are A-OK so far.
Fast-forward 3 hours later, and I arrive home to the dining room in the living room. And the living room sort of stuffed (like a Volkswagon full of teenagers...) in the dining room. And Mr. Volcano-head blissfully pursuing his professional pursuits in the mammoth living room (with the fireplace and the plasma screen TV, btw...). Did I mention the aura of bliss emanating from his countenance? Grrrrr..... I mean "*Sigh* - Isn't that sweet????"
If I put my thinking rather than my feeling cap on - there are some advantages. Most of which are more obvious if we do things like remodel the kitchen or buy the former J&M back bar as our new buffet/credenza. But I can see how having Sophia's toys and drawing easel in a room that doesn't serve as a work environment is a plus - as is the option to have that type of open style connectivity with the kitchen in the fullness of time - which has never mattered much with the dining room for us. And it's got a big open space for rough-housing, which is something we engage in about 6 gazillion times a day. And I can go rescue our red carpet from the cleaning house - which has been gracefully storing it for us for over a year under the guise that we don't have a room where it would fit. 'Nuff said. It *could* work.
In our old house, I lived in the kitchen/family room and loved it. We never used the formal living room, even after spending a lot of time and energy converting it to a library. I can see where replicating The kitchen configuration here would have merit. Especially now that we've completely abandoned the concept of formal entertainment. No one with a 2 year old does that.
So maybe I haven't completely lost my flexibility - it's just buried under the irritation around having my main floor completely redone without any prior discussion or agreement. But that is a separate issue and can be dealt with as such. I already apologized for my part, including the icy stare and snarky commentary. Don't know what he's going to do but I'd be happy with an acknowledgment that these things should at least be touched on conversationally before I physically begin tripping over the newly-placed coffee table.
I do wish the old dining room/new family room had a fireplace. Thinking creatively - open brazier marshmallows, anyone?
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