State of the Starport: facilities

[mdlbear]

This is probably the first of two posts, the second one being about the Starport's computer network. And it's less about the current state of things than the (hopefully) near-term plans for them. But since I'd much rather write about what ought to be done than actually do it, here goes. Maybe it'll help me organize my thoughts, if not my life. Anyway.

There are three major shake-ups in progress here. The first is chaoswolf's move-out, which will eventually result in a major amount of space freed up. Not only her bedroom, but the dining table and chairs downstairs that she wants. That will take time, however.

The most immediate result was getting her big pile of wedding presents mostly out of the living room. Some of them are back now awaiting shipment, but there was enough time in between for me to move the sewing machine table out of what is on its way to becoming a real guest room. That's the second shake-up.

Colleen has decided that sewing is a social activity, and so belongs in the living room where she can kibbitz while Marty or somebody else sews.

There is now room enough to move around in the guest room, but it really needs to have the closet emptied out and the shelves full of fabric and notions packed up and moved either into storage or into the sewing area of the living room. The guest room will also double as a music room, assuming we can make the bed split up and double as seating. Since the room is far too small for a king-sized bed, this means a couple of custom foam pads that combine to form a full- or at most queen-sized bed. Like clearing out the Wolf's den, that's a longer-term project.

The third major shake-up, and the one I'm most concerned about this weekend, is getting the master bedroom ready for Colleen's return. Our bed, the lovely but occasionally problematic queen-sized bed that I built for us years ago, is too damned high for her to get in and out of safely, or even at all. This is made worse by the modern trend toward mattress inflation. Six-inch thick mattresses are now impossible to find; they're more like 12 or 18 inches.

There's also the fact that sometimes we regret not having a king-sized bed. And the fact that, with Colleen's currently-limited mobility, a hospital bed might be better for her. Two hospital beds spliced together equal a king. (Whether we can get insurance to spring for any fraction of the cost is an open question, but I'm not going to worry about it much.)

There's a lot of storage space under a queen-sized bed. That would have to be cleaned out. And we really need to have the carpets steam-cleaned. That would mean moving everything out. Even if we had Kat's stuff out of her room and the garage, it would be a major amount of work. As it is, it's probably impossible.

I need to try anyway.

(18:21) It looks like the YD wants the queen-sized bed, so that's one thing we won't have to find a home for. YAY! It'll still need to be taken apart, cleaned, and put back together. And we'll have to find a place for her bed...

Comments

[septemberlilac.livejournal.com]

You mentioned one of my pet peeves, "the modern trend toward mattress inflation". Mattress inflation is a worse threat to humankind than global warming. I'm just barely 5'2" in height, and if I could get my hands on the idiot who decided that the top of a bed should be four feet off the floor... It was bad enough when hotels bought into the idea that 'luxury' was defined as having everything filled with feathers, but now traveling means that I'm faced with the possibility of needing a ladder to get into the bed. For me, at this point, it's still only an annoyance but I'm not getting any younger and for anyone who has even minor physical limitations, it can be downright dangerous. How many bones would a person be likely to break if they ever fell out of one of those things?