Gary conceded that the blue chair doesn’t fit in the Stickley room. Points for him.
He has been using the reclining feature of the replacement chair instead of elevating his feet on an enormous black exercise ball. Bonus points for him.
But then I wake up every day and on my way to the kitchen I see this.
Poof. Gary loses all the points.
He asks, “What’s wrong with that?”
“If you need it right next to the loveseat, it needs to scoot back so the front of the chair lines up with the edge of the loveseat.”
He does not agree.
(And, don’t talk to me about moving the loveseat. It is not obvious from the photo but the loveseat is the same size as the fireplace hearth. I can’t argue with magical furniture serendipity.)
“Gary, if people come over they can’t hurl themselves on the loveseat. It’s not inviting.”
“No one is coming over because of the pandemic. You can move the chair if someone comes over.”
“Then I’m troubled by the ghosts. There’s a ghost trapped on the right side of the loveseat. She can’t stand up because your chair is there and she can’t scoot down because you stacked all the pillows on the right.”
That seemed to get through to him.
I just woke up to the photo above. I put the pillows on the right, and you know what, it’s not as bad.
4 responses to “Invisible Guests”
I would love to know how I got taught about furniture placement, and also how so many of the guys I know were not taught about it. I don’t *remember* being taught it, but I’m sure I was… and yet when my husband is asked to put out chairs for a party, he lines them all up neatly against the walls. Every one. (he is now learning, through direct tutelage, about How To Set Up Furniture So People Can Actually Talk To Each Other Comfortably And Yet Still Move Around.)
Seriously, this is just wrong, lol. That said, I can’t help but be curious about furniture placement, but this just seems middle-of-the-night accident prone. I mean maybe if we ever get out if this pandemic situation, accident prone becomes normal because we’ve forgotten how furniture is normally placed during non-pandemic times. (Hmm…will there be an art/reality Covid theme? Art really does seem to history.) I kid of course (or do I?). 😉 Everything just seems so upside down right now.
KC – oh no. Against the wall. Wrong wrong wrong.
Lisa – that’s an interesting idea – the 1918 pandemic may have affected art, but the First World War stole all that thunder. The austerity probably led to the roaring 20s. I plan to live like I could die tomorrow in the roaring 2020s.
Yes. All precisely against the walls. We haven’t tried recently, though, so the various sessions of learning may have sunk in by now… If we ever host a party again, we’ll see what happens, I guess…