tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post8988142006025161342..comments2024-03-25T17:18:09.834-07:00Comments on Becoming Gezellig: Why I chose the smallest bedroom in the house for the "master" bedroomSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06171205124450749463noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-87570008705998632322019-12-14T17:40:03.238-08:002019-12-14T17:40:03.238-08:00Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a ...Being a vampire is not what it seems like. It’s a life full of good, and amazing things. We are as human as you are.. It’s not what you are that counts, but how you choose to be. Do you want a life full of interesting things? Do you want to have power and influence over others? To be charming and desirable? To have wealth, health, and longevity? contact the vampires creed today via email: Richvampirekindom@gmail.comJerome Samsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00886505335771600600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-66952823185713429632014-10-06T14:39:25.985-07:002014-10-06T14:39:25.985-07:00That sounds like smart thinking to me, Pdxmama! Lo...That sounds like smart thinking to me, Pdxmama! Love the image of your daughter playing in her room in the afternoon sunshine after school. (In our case, the big bedroom/new office is the brighter room, with an Eastern exposure. I guess it's a tradeoff: good for me since I work in there most mornings, but my husband no longer gets the morning sunshine to help him out of bed. Ah well, I suppose he'll be glad of the West-facing new bedroom on summer weekend mornings.) Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171205124450749463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-19704730424786319432014-10-06T11:29:03.907-07:002014-10-06T11:29:03.907-07:00We did the same thing in our 110-yr old house. The...We did the same thing in our 110-yr old house. The smallest bedroom is off our living/dining room...great for baby but it limited our evening us of these public rooms. Swapped rooms & now all toys, etc are in more secluded room. Bonus is that our daughter's room gets awesome Western sunshine - right when she gets home from school. The smaller room is kind of cramped but its easy to keep clean. Live using rooms as we need them, not as ordained by whomever out therePdxmamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01607451523290813128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-83628130480353875262014-10-01T10:58:39.403-07:002014-10-01T10:58:39.403-07:00Wow, 6 kids in a 3-bedroom house, that would requi...Wow, 6 kids in a 3-bedroom house, that would require some creative thinking indeed!<br /><br />Your dining room sleeping nook looks and sounds really cozy. I love that you have put some effort into recasting the spaces in your house, rather than just shoving stuff into spaces that are still in some way designed for other purposes.<br /><br />And you know, the more I think about it the more I like the term "adult bedroom." I'm okay with the cheeky connotations if people want to read it that way, but more than anything I think the term is really just straightforwardly descriptive in a really nice way (and applies whether there are one or two adults, and regardless of the combination of genders of said adults).Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171205124450749463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-84030076116951440862014-09-28T08:59:50.386-07:002014-09-28T08:59:50.386-07:00Hey, awesome, looks like it worked! So glad you we...Hey, awesome, looks like it worked! So glad you were able to comment this time.<br /><br />"Principal suite," hmm? I sort of like it in principle (ha), though I'm not sure I can apply it to our 10x10 box (we have only one bathroom in the house -- let alone an ensuite one for the grownups) with a straight face. I guess if I can call a home office with a sewing machine in it an atelier...hey, I am going to have the grandest 1950s ranch house West of the Mississippi, or at least make it sound that way! LOLSarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171205124450749463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-71510106580892198742014-09-27T17:35:37.801-07:002014-09-27T17:35:37.801-07:00Every time I hear the word "master" bedr...Every time I hear the word "master" bedroom I recall a show I watched many years ago, in which a Canadian designer positively slammed the term as sexist and old-fashioned. I couldn't quite remember, but thought it might have been "principal suite", and sure enough, my few minutes of Googling brought up Lynda Reeves (who's on the Canadian site House and Home) and that is (or at least was, a few years ago) her preferred term.<br /><br />Now let me see if I can get this comment to load...fingers crossed... Marianhttp://greengreyandgezellig.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-6100402768500271322014-09-27T13:48:58.955-07:002014-09-27T13:48:58.955-07:00Oh, I love that you considered that non-traditiona...Oh, I love that you considered that non-traditional arrangement -- but yes, I can imagine it would be hard to make that fly with the number/age range of kids in your house! <br /><br />I agree that there's something to be said for the idea that adults should actually get the smaller bedrooms since they generally have more control over the other spaces of the house. On the other hand, "The whole rest of the house is mine!" is pretty much the argument I've been making to my daughter by way of explaining why she can't leave Legos strewn over the living room floor for weeks on end, but she doesn't seem to be buying it. :-PSarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171205124450749463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1653399301717513709.post-4437646124772434452014-09-27T07:59:39.436-07:002014-09-27T07:59:39.436-07:00I'm a big fan of reconsidering spaces. (It'...I'm a big fan of reconsidering spaces. (It's why we have no dining room.) Also a big fan of limiting bedroom activities to those you've listed here. At one point we considered putting all 3 kids in the proper bedrooms upstairs, so that we could take the small not-really-a-bedroom bedroom downstairs, but that would have meant deciding which one could have the master with its adjoining bathroom. We knew that whoever the other two were, they would howl in protest. I think there's some sense to giving the largest bedroom to an older kid/teen because their bedroom is the only space in the house that is just theirs. The whole rest of the house is "mine." But I think that would only work with an only child? Maybe the oldest, if there's some spacing in ages, and each gets to rotate to it? OK, I'm rambling. Just wanted to say, I think we should make our homes work for us, and there are lots of different "right" ways to do that. :-)Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04227597091783239454noreply@blogger.com