Watty's Awakening

TallGirl

Watty1 said:

Overall the big work is done, just the little stuff (some of it big) to do.     A master list will be drawn up as I want all the little jobs done so I can enjoy the house now.

Love this hope it brings some calm and peace to your place. Onwards and upwards I am sure it will be lovely when it is done and it is all yours. 

daisy_1571

spare room?  It sounds like its a bedroom.   You are sleeping in a bedroom in your house.  Thats ok.  When you are ready, try one of the other bedrooms in your house.  You might like it, you might not.  Thats OK. 

savingholmes

PennysIntoPounds said:

Could you give yourself a long weekend's 'holiday' sleeping in the new space with your lovely new bedding, to get used to it and be excited about the novelty of it? Maybe incorporate some other small nice things into your 'stay', like reading for fifteen minutes before you get up, or having a cuppa and a croissant in bed, or using toiletries you save for special instead of your usual?
You deserve for it to feel like a treat to yourself 

I liked this suggestion.

daisy_1571 said:

spare room?  It sounds like its a bedroom.   You are sleeping in a bedroom in your house.  Thats ok.  When you are ready, try one of the other bedrooms in your house.  You might like it, you might not.  Thats OK. 

I think Blackcats sleeps in one bedroom in winter as it is cosier and another the rest of the year. I love the freedom of Daisy's suggestion. I got the spare bedroom looking nice yesterday and lay on the bed briefly and thought I could sleep in here sometimes if I wanted... 

I totally relate to some rooms not feeling quite right. As you know I've been struggling with my back L shape - particularly the inner most part of it that is intended to be my art area. In my case I know it's partly due to the light - but it could also still be due to the newness of everything (that I still feel 3 months after moving).

greenbee

The house is all yours. Use the rooms how you like. And find the instructions or a YT video for the shower! Apparently you should always test out your spare bedrooms anyway to see how they work - maybe to make sure no one will want to stay for too long

The holiday weekend seems like a good time to change rooms. But keep them both made up so you can sleep where you feel most comfortable. 

Cherryfudge

Could you use the new bedding in the room you're in now? That breaks it in without the unfamiliarity of the newly decorated room. Then if and when you want to change rooms, it can go with you, or not, as you please.

I think at the end of the day it's easy to have the familiar, so I can understand you not wanting to go into a squeaky clean new unused room.

LadyWithAPlan

Enjoy discovering your new home at your own pace ! 

Watty1

daisy_1571 said:

spare room?  It sounds like its a bedroom.   You are sleeping in a bedroom in your house.  Thats ok.  When you are ready, try one of the other bedrooms in your house.  You might like it, you might not.  Thats OK. 

I love this. Thank you. So very calming. 

Watty1

PennysIntoPounds said:

Could you give yourself a long weekend's 'holiday' sleeping in the new space with your lovely new bedding, to get used to it and be excited about the novelty of it? Maybe incorporate some other small nice things into your 'stay', like reading for fifteen minutes before you get up, or having a cuppa and a croissant in bed, or using toiletries you save for special instead of your usual?
You deserve for it to feel like a treat to yourself 

What a really lovely suggestion.  I might indeed have a holiday in there just for a night, with a good book and see how the room feels.

Watty1

greenbee said:

The house is all yours. Use the rooms how you like. And find the instructions or a YT video for the shower! Apparently you should always test out your spare bedrooms anyway to see how they work - maybe to make sure no one will want to stay for too long

The holiday weekend seems like a good time to change rooms. But keep them both made up so you can sleep where you feel most comfortable. 

I have found the instructions and have them next to bed as reading material.  It is the only actual shower in the house rather than the hand held one in the bathroom with the sloping ceilings so I do need to figure it out.

Watty1

Picked up the door handle from the blacksmith yesterday but it does not fit back on. He did raise this as a possibility as he had to build the lock back up.  I can take it back and he will file it down some more but the VNM was with me when I picked it up and he and the blacksmith chatted away for a while and the VNM has a file in the work van that will do the job so he is going to do it.       This is particularly nice of him as he won £300 on the lottery at the weekend and has now spent that at the dentist fixing a tooth that WattyDog knocked out the day after he won that and bless him, he has not grumbled once. 

Despite being 7.5 years old WattyDog is still an exuberant puppy at heart and bounces about like one oblivious to his size and steadfastly declining to obey basic commands.   He knows them and obeys beautifully when out and he has an audience but in the house he sees no point and will not do as asked.