Rearranging? | Pad Patter Feb 7

[IntenseMagic]

Gosh I love to rearrange!! I used to move my bedroom around all the time as a teenager and I think I would move my house around every month if I could. It just makes for a fresh clean feel!! My house is just small and there's only so many places things can go I do switch things out occasionally and we have played musical bedrooms a lot... and bedrooms that become offices as kids grow up and move out.

 

[Cherylndesigns]

I used to do that "in my other life". I used to be a crazy cleaner and my kids called me the "psycho painter". They never knew what color a room would be when they came home from school. Our big entry foyer was my favorite thing to repaint. I would do drastic changes like light blue to chocolate brown. Haha

 

[Justagirl]

Lol...this is one of my fondest memories growing up. My mum used to love doing it, and on occasion over the years I’d come home from school to a newly painted and decorated bedroom, she was a machine. It’s rubbed off onto me I see it as 'a change is as good as a holiday' well atleast thats my excuse. But call me crazy a big clean out and scrub of a room is like a spiritual cleansing. A good ole clean and reshuffle clears the mind and rejuvenates.

 

[bellbird]

i would if we could - the orientation of windows and doors in our rooms really doesn't allow for it

 

[Karen]

I like to move things around, but my hubby resists it every time when I tell him my plans, but he always ends up liking what i do, so I've just quit telling him ahead of time. Lol! Our Family Room stays pretty much the same way because the precious TV is the center of all attention (insert eyeroll), but our living room is a no TV zone, so I have lots more freedom to play in there. I also move my craft room around depending on whatever craft/art I'm obsessed with at the time.

...but what is this deep cleaning you speak of?

 

[cookingmylife]

...but what is this deep cleaning you speak of?

I'm with you Karen! No children, no pets. We're not THAT dirty!

I could rearrange all the time if I could but I think I've done every possibility in almost all our rooms. Our house is skinny -15' wide - and long so a lot of rooms are limited in what can be done when you consider windows, closets, fireplaces etc. And as far as cleaning...we learned early on in this marriage that it was a wise investment to pay someone to do that every other week. In between, I constantly declutter and straighten. It's funny to think that it was kind of like that growing up. I did all the straightening up and organizing and then my Nana could do the serious cleaning.

My mother, however, did the painting and the yearly relaxing of the floors with paste wax and a buffer. For years in my first marriage, I used paste wax on all the furniture even after spray polish was invented. Does anyone still use paste wax? do they still even make it?

 

[wvsandy]

Nope. I only move/rearrange to clean or out of necessity.

 

[cfile]

I love to rearrange furniture. I mean, it is how I deep clean. Pull everything to one side of room, scrub baseboards, walls, and corners! I will steam clean, and scrub and then rearrange the furniture in new and creative ways. I enjoy it. I think it is because we moved so often as a child (Dad in Navy).
I also love to move rooms! My kids love it too. We pull everything out of one of their rooms, scrub it down. Sometimes paint. Then another kid (used to be set of kids) move in. We usually do this on yucky weather days. Wet, and cold in winter and so wicked hot in summer.
Yesterday, I moved my huge U shaped desk (thank you to my husband and strong boys). From one room to another. I steamed the tile floor in new room, to sanitized.
So, today, I am putting everything back. The hard part...
Do you rearrange? My best friend has had her couch in the same spot for 25 years. They bought a new couch and it went right in the same spot. It looks good, but I love to change it up?
How about you?

and for the record...I am exhausted! bhahah

I am like your friend my dear Anne. We have lived in this house for 18 1/2 year and the furniture is all in the same spot as it was when we bought each piece. I will move things out to clean and then it goes back in the same spot. I am OCD that way. I have always been that way - probably because my parents were that way. As a kid, I would move my bed from one side of the room to the other as in the summer I didn't want my bed under the window. Our windows were at the ceiling, but I was scared with windows open that someone would come in or kill me from sleeping under the window. (I must have seen a scary movie.) Every summer we would move my bed to the other side of the room and end of fall flip it back... otherwise the entire house would be the same. I like to walk around at night if I get up during the night and not turn on the lights to fully wake myself up, so having things in the same place allows me to walk around and know where I am without banging into something!

 

[cfile]

I'm with you Karen! No children, no pets. We're not THAT dirty!

I could rearrange all the time if I could but I think I've done every possibility in almost all our rooms. Our house is skinny -15' wide - and long so a lot of rooms are limited in what can be done when you consider windows, closets, fireplaces etc. And as far as cleaning...we learned early on in this marriage that it was a wise investment to pay someone to do that every other week. In between, I constantly declutter and straighten. It's funny to think that it was kind of like that growing up. I did all the straightening up and organizing and then my Nana could do the serious cleaning.

My mother, however, did the painting and the yearly relaxing of the floors with paste wax and a buffer. For years in my first marriage, I used paste wax on all the furniture even after spray polish was invented. Does anyone still use paste wax? do they still even make it?

We had linoleum in our kitchen when I was growing up, and every 2 weeks (on a monday) the floor waxer would come to paste wax the floor with that floor wax machine. During December, he would paste wax the finished basement floor tiles as we would always have Christmas parties and New Years Eve parties downstairs so he would do that once a year. I would think they still have that for schools and such but not really in homes anymore. weird but I loved the smell of the paste wax.. it would go on the steel wool pad, he would wax the floor and then change out the steel wool pad for the buffer pad. The night before was always my job to wash the floor!

 

[AnneofAlamo]

I can't wait for our forever house! I will move the furniture every day in there!

long ago, I did a page of my forever home!! it was so fun and now we are in that house! pretty coolio

I can't wait for Spring to take down all the curtains to wash & hang outside.

wait..heck, I am taking mine down today, you have inspired me!

itching to swap our living and dining areas

my favorite swap

I have to do something with the kitchen though

I will take everything out of kitchen and rearrange after a good scrub (if I see a mouse, it happens immediately)

Used to drive my husband bonkers - now he embraces it!

Oh that he embraces it...my dear hubs, he looks for his recliner, and then is happy

Hubby likes it best the way it is now.

see, you got it perfect!

declutteriing and downsizing

those are like romantic words to my heart!

Had to put it on a large towel and pull it across the floor.

lol, I onced moved a side by side fridge just me, up stairs with a blanket and my leg power. bhahhw, had to climb over the top of the fridge whenI got to the landing!

I'd draw a map of my bedroom in my diary and label the furniture.

yes! I am married to an engineer,and he printed out floor plans of our house and made me templates to move, but I just like to eye it now,and blaze on

one place for the couch.

couches love to live without a wall too, a sofa table behind? lol

my parents never knew what my room was going to look like b/c I moved things around just about weekly LOL!!

yes, yes and yes

That layout had never occurred to her.

I find myself at other people's houses, rearranging in my head

rearrange smaller things

that is so precious and perfect! kinda like scrapping, rearranging elements

I am more addicted to cleaning the computer desk and making sure the desktop is clear of clutter and ready to be used.

I just moved my puter where it can be seen by almost everyone...so I have to keep it cleaner

As a kid we would never know if our lounge would be the same when we got home from school.

what a great memory! I loves your mum!

bedrooms that become offices as kids grow up and move out.

lol, that is exactly it! my hubby is counting time for his own room to use as recording studio

my kids called me the "psycho painter"

that is a moniker I desire!

this is one of my fondest memories growing up.

yeah to your mom!!

the orientation of windows and doors in our rooms

oh I am so bad, I have had doorways moved and windows to make our home more rearrangeable.

but our living room is a no TV zone

we have a no electronics living room...and it is delightful

We're not THAT dirty!

I live in the desert. Dust is more than dust, it is layers of thick sand, that invade my home. Seriously, my vacuum bag is emptied weekly, and in a deep state of clean, daily!

 

[HavaDrPepper]

@cookingmylife there are still buffing machines and paste wax out there. Like @cfile said, they are used mostly for industrial or business use. The company I worked for when I retired sold these (among other cleaning supplies etc) to our customers. Those pads they use... there are a heck of a lot of different types of them! Each color serves a different purpose and has a different texture. There are also different size of pads. ranging from 3" to 28" in diameter (round pads). Most common size is between 15 and 20 inches in diameter.

 

[Tree City]

I find myself at other people's houses, rearranging in my head

I do that too! I used to live near a cousin and we'd go to each other's houses and help each other move furniture. We're both artistic/creative women who are also SAHMs: moving furniture was a good outlet lol! Anyway, she is one of the few people who I could tell my rearranging thoughts to and she would tell me her ideas for my place. Telling someone how to arrange their furniture and knowing you won't be kicked out but instead will be able to help move the furniture around? That's love, right there.

 

[michelepixels]

yes! I am married to an engineer,and he printed out floor plans of our house and made me templates to move, but I just like to eye it now,and blaze on

No engineers in my family growing up, but my mom was interested in architecture and used to draw home floor plans and dream. And we had books of blueprints. And yes! I made little paper furniture pieces so I could rearrange my bedroom on paper before moving the furniture. But I only bothered with that a couple of times. Perhaps it helped me learn to visualize space though. I can remember working out furniture arrangements in my mind over the years in my adult homes.

 

[Serena]

Deep cleaning, that's when you only have ONE cherry coke a day instead of 2 or three, right? Am I right?

I deep cleaned last night, only one cherry coke and pure clear and clean sprite for the rest of the day! /flex

I used to be that type that rearranged all the time, I used to also be the type that painted walls and bedrooms in one day so the kids came home to something different. It was what helped me the first few years of living in this house that I utterly hate. I'm not used to living in one place more than a year.. ten years here. ew. Just ew.

Now a days my health doesn't allow and I really need to actually clean my children's room, they have a bunk bed set up and toys they don't use because they're on their computer and iPad constantly, but I have yet to have the spoons to get in there and just clear it out and clean it yet. Hopefully that's coming soon.

And our room down here now is also kinda set in it's ways. We have a computer monitor mounted to the wall that serves as a "tv" for our netflix and chrome casting, it's right in front of my treadmill. So that's pretty much it there too.

One day though, I'm going to slowly go through and just change everything!! Luckily I have scrapbooking as an outlet or I probably would have exploded...

 

[djp332]

Oh, @AnneofAlamo, if it were only that simple. If I moved the couch out and put a table behind it, it would be in the middle of the floor. lol! Here's a pic from the hallway above. Disregard the weird panoramic shape. The room is not round.

 

[AnneofAlamo]

@djp332 ooooooooooooh wouldn't a round room be ever so cool? so many windows of wonder!

 

[Tree City]

I had to share: This Old House magazine's latest issue recommends three apps to "Rearrange your furniture with zero lifting." When I read that this morning, I thought of all my TLP peeps who LIKE to rearrange and those who don't lol, cuz with these apps you can do it without actually, well, doing it! And they're free! (Some apps have upgrades, but TOH says the free version has enough cool stuff to be usable/enjoyable.)

They recommend Homestyler (available via Google Play or the Apple App store), Roomsketcher (available via Google Play or the Apple App store), and Rooms (which is Apple only). I'm going to try out Homestyler because you can test-drive name-brand paint, and I want to paint my living room (as I've mentioned on here waaaaay too many times lol) and I'm hoping to get the paint tmw...unless someone else in this house gets sick.

 

[bonnenuit]

As a teen, I would rearrange my bedroom. Nowadays, not so much. Mostly because either the room configuration or the size of the furniture (or both) allow for only one arrangement. The guest room is the only one that could be rearranged but I see no reason to do so.

 

[Laura1979]

I used to rearrange all the time when I was a kid (switch rooms and such with my siblings). I don't do it very often as an adult though. My house is limited due to it's structure and my DH is pretty set in his way. He doesn't like change too much, lol.

 

[sakura-panda]

I'd love to rearrange, but my furniture it too big (or my house is too small.) There is a little movement at Christmas, to make room for the tree, but after, everything goes back to where it was.