I’ve been arranging my room today. The rooms that I see on adverts, movies and magazines look beautiful. I never understood why my room can’t look as good as those. Of course, there is the obvious fact that those rooms are spacious, have beautiful furniture, good lighting and enjoy the benefits that come from camera tricks. But still why can’t my room get even a bit closer?
So anyhow after some web research I picked some interesting terms: “focal point of a room” and “balanced room”. The bed is the focal point of a bedroom, the desk and chair are a focal point of an office, and so on. So these must be placed at the center of the room (ketechale malet new enji yegid mehal lay lemaskemet bilachu eka mesber weyim algawum be megaz mekuret tiru aymeslegnim). Once you put your bed in a good position, you work with the next biggest furniture, and so on.
A “balanced room” according to my understanding means what it means. If you were superman and were to keep the room on the air by supporting it with your index fingure (placed in the middle of the floor) the room should stay balanced. Hmm.. forget what I just said. I can imagine some arrangements that satisfy this requirement but would give the room a warehouse look. Perhaps I should define physical balance, visual balance and the like. Ok, another way of putting it is, all furniture on one side of the room is not balanced. Furniture must be fairly distributed and space must be distributed as well.
(I fed a fox by the way. She is very cautious. Beautiful tail.)
That takes me to the second nice thought that I had. When you arrange something, think about space. Like instead of thinking where to put the bed, think where you want space. That really helps. For example, as I was rearranging my room, I couldn’t find any arrangement that satisfied me until I understood that I was ruling out the options because none of them gave me some space infront of the door. Maybe a combination of the two will help: where to put the space and where to put the biggest furnitures.
So anyhow thats all about room arrangement. And one more thing, please throw things out. We people are so selfish we stick to everything. If you go into someone’s bedroom perhaps half of the stuff inside is of no use. If you see something and can’t think of any use for it right now then pack it up and give it to someone who might need it, recycle it, or do something about it. Don’t just stuff it in there.
So how is your room arranged? Can it be any better?
Beterefe infront my new room, just across the road, is a Church. I couldn’t go to Church so the Church came to me. Actually the real reason why I don’t go to Church is because I don’t like the services. For example last week the priest was praying out loud. He mentioned some folks in the community, I followed, poor people, I followed, the country, still following, and then he went on talking about the British soldiers, that they are dying trying to restore peace. I can understand that he is British and would pray for his kind. We all do. But first of all why talk about politics? Whether they are restoring peace or not is debatable. And second, if he mentions Iraq and Afghanistan, why not pray for those people too? A few hundred (max) British soldiers died and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died. And why not pray for the terrorists too? Those who walk into masses and blow themselves up? If I said this to him maybe he’ll laugh on my face. But never can tell till I try it. I’ll send them a letter.
My ramblings for the day have come to an end. Movies watched this week (all are highly recommended):
Animations: Princess Mononoke (by Hayao Miyazaki), Tim Burtons Corpse Bride, Chronicles of Narnia. I also plan to see the other films by Hayao Miyazaki. I’ve already seen Spirited Away and Hawl’s Moving Castle which are both excellent. Hawl’s Moving Castle is a touching movie. It remains inside me. Princess Mononoke as well.
The island – scifi action thingie. A bit amateurish and predictable ending but nice plot.
