Rearrange the Furniture

Last night as the first of the Interns arrived to eat dinner and watch TV I put them to work. I had them move some of the furniture. Our house has a very open floor plan and gives me lots of options for arranging the furniture. I have three rooms, formal living, dinning room and a casual living that I can mix and match. I purposely bought furniture for these rooms so that they contrast, yet complement each other. For the last two years we have had two interns living with us so we have settled into having two couches in the formal area with the TV, a dining room and then a casual area with the fireplace and the overstuffed chairs that match the two couches. Well last night I decided it was time for a change that and I have a number of people coming over for a meeting tomorrow night. Now I have the dining room set at the back of the house closest to the kitchen and then both living room sets in the area at the front of the house.

Rearranging furniture is a way to make a significant change without a significant cost. It does however expose some things, first when they lifted the furniture we found the various cat toys that had been pushed under the pieces, good thing I had cleaned last weekend and vacuumed under each one or there might have been more than just cat toys. The other thing that rearranging furniture exposes is the traffic patterns in the carpet.

Finding stuff under the furniture is like us trying to hide our faults and flaws, we all do it whether it is with our cloths we wear, the smile that is always on our face, or the words we speak. We can hide our ‘toys’ that we really don’t want anyone else to find.

The traffic patterns in the rug don’t show up until you move the furniture to a new spot then you see the uneven wear and more dirt in the area that gets the most traffic. In our lives traffic patters represent the ruts we get into and the patterns we maybe don’t even realize we have fallen into. When it becomes normal or routine it sometimes looses its life and passion.

So if take it from me, it feels good to rearrange the furniture even if it exposes a few cat toys and a little carpet wear.