{"id":100,"date":"2010-03-07T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2010-03-07T17:15:08","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:15:08","slug":"more-stories-about-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/more-stories-about-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"More stories about moving"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family moved into a new house about 16 months <\/em>ago. There\u2019s an office on the ground floor where I set up my pc, my music stiff and a bunch of boxes (mostly filled with books and CDs). I never quite figured out what furniture to buy for the room, but in the end, it didn\u2019t really matter. It turns out that my wife loves my computer (it\u2019s a fanless, ultraquiet system with two 19\u201d widescreen monitors on ergotron<\/a> arms. She also fell in love with the room \u2013 it\u2019s on the first floor, near the front door and kitchen \u2013 a perfect place to be if kids are in the yard, eating snacks, or playing around the house. I relinquished the room to her several months ago, but all of my crud was still in there because we never figured out where it should go.<\/p>\n

Our house has a \u201cbonus room\u201d that we thought would be a kids play room or a TV room, but it didn\u2019t work out well for either of those options. The room is on the second floor over the garage \u2013 far, far away from the kitchen and family room. When you have a four and five year old, you don\u2019t necessarily want them playing (or watching tv!) so far away you can\u2019t hear them. Sometime a few months ago, we decided that I could take over the room. It\u2019s a pretty big room, but it will be fun to have a place for all of my book, cds and music stuff.<\/p>\n

We had a bit of a moving day today, and I hauled about 20 boxes upstairs, and moved some shelves from the garage. Right now, it looks like a big storage room (because that\u2019s what it is right now). I\u2019ve been using the Ikea room planner to get an idea of how to set it up and threw this together:<\/p>\n

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The file cabinet in the corner is a stand-in for a 20-space raxxess rack where I keep most of my electronics. I have a few sets of studio monitors that I\u2019ll put right on the bookshelf \u2013 not the best solution, but I think it will work fine. I\u2019m not exactly sure where to put the desk, but that spot in front of the shelves is as good as any. The room is pretty big \u2013 not counting the entry hallway, it\u2019s 13×17 (17\u2019 left to right as you view this picture). I have 4 saxophones and 3 guitars that can go behind the chair somewhere, and a bunch of smaller instruments that I can put on shelves, or in the cabinets on the right. Acoustically, the room is a little bright now, but I\u2019m hoping it deadens up a bit once I unpack everything. BTW \u2013 if any readers with better decorating skills than me have suggestions, please fire them away in the comments section.<\/p>\n

For comparison, here\u2019s my wife\u2019s office (my old office).We\u2019re going to put a foldout couch between the doors and have it double as a second guest room (with my office, I suppose, being a third). Until today, most of the floor space (including inside the closet) was piled with my boxes.I\u2019m pretty sure most of the carpet in that room has never been walked on.<\/p>\n

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