For the last 6 months to a year I have been chuntering on about changing our downstairs rooms around, OH has been ignoring me.
We were selling but have now decided not to move, as his job may be shifting up North in the near future (we will know in the next 6 months), so we're getting the piano and some bookcases back out of storage - now would be the perfect opportunity to rearrange the rooms while we have big hefty men to move the furniture around, but he is being a PITA and refusing to commit to anything.
I am soooooo tempted to do it myself and present him with a fait accompli...
Basically, we have a long, thin living room. At one end is the telly, sofa etc, at the other end are dd's little table and chairs, toys and book storage. Now because of the layout of this room (10' wide for most of the 29' room, fireplace slap in the middle, directly opposite the door), it is impossible to have the seating grouped together as it looks extremely cramped (we have big sofas). We had the tv put on the wall to see if it made a difference but no. Consequently we sit about 12 foot apart from each other of an evening, which is bad enough, but when we have company round it's ridiculous!
Our dining room is a much nicer size (12' x 17') and our 2 sofas and chair would fit in there brilliantly. However, it does have a door into the kitchen (given that we tend to eat in front of the telly after dd has gone to bed, I don't necessarily see this as a disadvantage!) and we would need to remount the telly on the chimney breast/buy a new telly (which the OH would quite like to do as ours isn't HD ready....).
Then we could put the dining table in the half of the old l/r where the french windows are and create a proper playspace in the other end of the room for dd, with a sofabed and her 'video only' telly, leaving us with our 'adult' space for the evenings.
I, of course, think this is a fab idea , but Mr LC is one of those blokes who can't visualise anything until he sees it, iykwim.
What d'you reckon? Shall I just organise it and have done with it, or is that just toooo unreasonable?