Big Cozy Home

by Ellen on October 13, 2012

To us, this is a big home. Our hope is that it be a cozy home, a big old cozy home. Currently, it is Fall and that has made it a big old cold home and the problem came to a head as we had a chilly Sunday. Football Sunday and the house was cold. Well, not the house exactly, just the room with the TV. The formal dinning room was lovely, warm and welcoming.

I can’t say it is time to re-decorate, because we’re not actually done decorating for the first time. All I have managed to do inside is paint two rooms, hang a few pictures and put out our furniture, then move it all around. It is time to re-organize the furniture arrangement (again).

The warmth and the TV need to be in the same room, well at least as long as it is football season. My Loving Spouse generously said, “Maybe we could have the furniture one way during the summer and another during the winter”. Now, I know he was trying to be nice and helpful, but I also know that there is a finite time husbands and sons for that matter will move the furniture (1 couch, 1 love seat, 1 table, 5 chairs, one bench, a rocking chair, an easy chair, a storage cupboard and ottoman), move the TV and move all the electrical bits that go with it. My Loving Spouse is a very classy guy, but I have a hunch that once the basic ‘man decorating’ needs are met (where’s my chair, can I see the TV and where is the remote) even he will be reluctant to haul the furniture around twice a year. Nope, I know I had better get this right this time.

Good bye formal dinning room. Hello, cozy family room, which would be the room I haven’t painted yet, the window frames need to be replaced, there is only one electrical outlet in the room and it is not on the wall we need it on, if in fact we are going for ‘cozy family room’, not just basic ‘man decorating’. All the cable hook ups were on the west side of the house and we’d just moved the TV to the east side of the house. I’d like to say that this situation is a rare ‘hic-up’ and we usually get things right the first time, but it is not. This is exactly how we do things.

My worry was that in trying to get heat and football together, that would be the sum of our efforts. My deep desire is to have a big, cozy home. Cozy in all the rooms, inviting to friends and family. As the dust on the current rearrangement settles, I’d have to say I’m really pleased as it seems that all the rooms have settled into cozy inviting spaces. Ready for family, friends, Thanks giving and of course we are always “Ready for some football”!

Cozy…. I think this shot of the Teen and My Loving Spouse speaks for itself.