My iPad takes panoramic shots. Amazing. So here is a panorama of an upstairs sort-of catchall room. I’m not sure how to make it look less like a sick room.
If someone were seriously ill, this is where I would put them, no question. Two day beds, one — not warped, that’s just how it looks — for the invalid, one just behind for the nurse. Lots of clean sheets. Voltaire chairs for guests. A wall full of books.
But Jacques and I are both quite healthy for the moment. And I like the room. Especially on a rainy, windy day like today, it’s great to snuggle in on that back bed and read, knit, blog, nap. All around a good spot to be.
So what should I do? it needs more pictures on the walls and a rug. End tables? A small coffee table? Then what?
Those chairs are bothering me. Jean-Yves inherited them from an aunt, a nun. It may have been when her convent closed that she went to Africa. I can’t imagine how else those chairs became available. But I can’t stop seeing people sitting in those chairs. It’s like they are haunted, perhaps by severe, judgmental nuns; they were in the mother superior’s office, after all. I need to break them up some way.
Should I have them face one another, instead of facing the bed? Put a low table between? Get that rug and a few more pictures? Any suggestions?
At Home in France 