Cosleeping and our house layout.

Cosleeping and our house layout.

We're thinking about rearranging some of our living spaces. Let me tell you what it's like now, how we use the space, and what I'm planning, and then let me know what you think.

First of all, note that we don't have a TV in our living room. It just wouldn't fit or look right. Our TV has always been the back room of our house, which is larger than the other rooms and earlier this year, became our bedroom (we have made a habit of moving the rooms around way too much, but think we're fairly settled now). Oliver sleeps in our bed, which means we really can't be in there oh, anytime after 7:30 or 8. Which means we don't watch TV. Not that big of a deal, but Erik likes his Pushing Daisies and we both love a good NOVA or netflix'd Freaks and Geeks. Recently, we've been watching this tiny little 15 inch (if that) TV in the guest room, which is totally not ergonomically set up for that.

We also have a low-energy thermostat-y electric space heater in our room (brand new!). Our bedtime routine involves a bath for Ollie, and then he plays a little while drying off in his room. Then he gets in pajamas and we bring him into our room. We'd rather just use that little space heater and not heat the rest of the house at all, unless we're using the fireplace (and then we'd totally have bedtime in front of the fire. swoon!)

I think we've decided that we need to move our normal TV into the guest room and rearrange it a little so we can relax on the bed and watch TV or read or do crafts (yay!) after Ollie conks out. But I've recently been thinking about rearranging the nursery and our bedroom a bit to make the space more usable for this cosleeping phase of our life.

I want to disassemble the changing table in his room, and just keep it as bookshelves (it's from Ikea, and is basically just a bookshelves/cabinet unit with a changing table attachment on top). I want to move all of his diaper stuff and the changing pad to the large dresser in our room. So, he'd have more cabinet space (for toys?) in his room, and all diapering would happen in our bedroom. Also, the nighttime dry-off and get in jammies would also happen in our bedroom (with the heater). (Our house gets cold, relatively. We're warm blooded so cal folks).

I was also thinking about moving the rocking chair into our room in the corner, and getting another wool rug. We could keep some nighttime-ish books for Ollie in the bookshelves in our room, and have a little bedtime story corner. (However, right now, reading books to Ollie is a full contact sport. There is nothing remotely peaceful and bedtime-ish about it). Anyway, I'm just envisioning everything after his bath happening in our warm bedroom.

This would also free up a lot of space in his room. Sure, we have a crib in there (the plan is to have him sleep the first part of the night in there eventually, when he's a bit older and it's not as cold at night), but we would have a corner for some play areas, and some room for toy storage, which we have none of right now. His room would be more of a play room than a nursery, I guess, and our room would have all the nursery bits. Woe! He's getting so grown up! His own play room!

I'm a little sad about taking that amazing green chair out of the nursery. It's right next to the painted tree in his room right now, and just looks so dreamy.

If this made ANY sense at all, please feel free to give me your tuppence on the matter. Why thank you.