Bedroom remodel, before
"What's next?" I asked
Mark once the
living room remodel was basically complete. "Hauling in manure for
the spring garden? Cleaning out the composting toilet?"
"None of the above," my
husband replied, and I could see him thinking that he might never get
me into remodeling mode again if he let me stop now. "Next up is your
room."
Before anyone gets
concerned about the state of our marriage, I should explain that I'm
the world's lightest sleeper. After battling with insomia for decades,
I finally developed sufficient sleep hygiene so I mostly sleep when and
where I should. But nothing living is allowed to be anywhere near me
when I sleep, and my sleeping room can be used for nothing except
sleeping and changing clothes...which means it looks significantly
worse than my office area did pre-remodel. Sleep hygiene, to me,
doesn't seem to involve actual, well cleaning.
What's the plan? Mark
helped me purge about two-thirds of my accumulated possessions, then I
packed the rest into bins to sit under the sofa during remodel part
two. I've picked out paint, Mark
brought home the lumber, and next week will be time for
rejuvenation of my sleeping space!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Depending on how long it has been since you replaced your matrass and pillow, you'd be amazed at how many living things are near you when you sleep...
On a different note, research has show that we sleep better if we sleep alone. And of course if you'd let the cats in, they'd be sleeping in comfort, while you'd be twisted like a pretzel.
That probably doesn't help. It seems to me that bedrooms are often the most dusty places in a house.