Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Swapping Pillows Is All It Takes

When we moved to DC eleven years ago, we bought a tiny one bedroom 500 square foot condo. Four years later, we bought a studio apartment across the hall, so we have almost 1000 square feet of living space. This arrangement sounds odd, but it actually works out really well. You could say we have two of everything, including two living room spaces, two bathrooms, two kitchens. One side has a private patio; the other side has a tiny monk's room, a Murphy bed, and a great street view. When we got the couch for the living room in the studio apartment, it came with two pillows that matched the fabric. But, they were not very comfortable amd the feathers were driving us crazy. We recently added a new kitchen backsplash to the other unit, and wanted to jazz up the pillows on the black leather sofa there. I looked and looked for something that went better with the new decor. Then it dawned on me that the uncomfortable feather pillows from the studio side would work much better on the other side, and the cushy larger pillows on the other side would do nicely in the studio. I suppose that's the one thing that makes the two sides work. Since the color schemes are the same, the furniture can be swapped back and forth. Which unit do we like more? We couldn't have one without the other. And every square foot is used.






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