shuffling rooms

We have a few problems with the way things are set up in our house. (These are things we mostly could not have anticipated without living here for a while first.) My office is in the one mostly-finished room in the basement (rough walls weird Dani out and I don't care), but it gets cold in the winter and the beefy space heater doesn't do much. Also, in the TV room upstairs the TV is a little foo far fom the couch for my comfort (I hate having to get up and stand in front of the TV for subtitles), but there isn't a better way to set up the room and I don't want to get a bigger TV. And we have one small under-utilized room upstairs that has mostly become the collector for stuff that doesn't have a proper place to go (mostly old papers we have to keep, and magazines, and stuff like that), and that would probably be less of a mess if we had a bunch of shelves and some file drawers and stuff.

Tonight Dani proposed a shuffle. We move the TV to that last room, move my office to the TV room, and let the not-very-well-heated room in the basement be the paper graveyard and general stuff collector. As an added bonus, that basement room has a full bath attached to it, which is basically stupid, but we could maybe offer this as a guest room (except in the coldest parts of winter) and the guests would have a private bathroom. (This room, by the way, is very much a den and not a bedroom; it has built-in shelves and a built-in desk and power outlets out the wazoo. I have no idea why they put a full bath there. But we could fit a bed in this room and still have it be managable.)

This makes so much sense! I wish we'd thought of this before. (In case you're wondering, we bought the house in the summer and didn't know about the heating problem until much later.)

If we do this, we need to get an electrician to beef up the office-to-be and the TV-room-to-be; both are underwired for their new jobs. We'll also need to buy some new furniture (in particular for the office, as I'm relying on the built-ins now). We'd need to re-do a bunch of the computer networking, too, though good old Hub is welcome to stay in the basement. (Gee, the house guests can have internet access on their room.) And, of course, there is a lot of furniture to be moved, some of which would have to be taken apart and put back together.

My answer to all of this is "hire people". With the exception of the electrical work we don't need to hire pros; we can offer the job to unemployed or underemployed friends instead, creating a win for everyone. I think Dani is starting to come around to that idea. We'll see.

who are all these people?

Once upon a time, dr4b made a guide to her friends list, which I would link to if I'd been able to find her post about it. I finally got around to doing something similar: Who are these people on Monica's friends list?

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