I decided to rearrange my room this past weekend. part of it was for convenience, and part of it was just to switch things up. It also gave me the opportunity to go through my things and reorganize.
The main issue was my desk previously faced my roommate’s room, so whenever I recorded a podcast I was speaking directly into his room. He’s never complained, but I still feel bad about it. Now my desk is on the opposite of my room, facing the wall that is shared with the main living area, which we don’t really use.
Another smaller annoyance was that my digital piano and my desk shared a corner of the room, each against an adjacent wall. Whenever I slid my chair over to play some piano, I would have to shift the piano so that it hung over my bed, otherwise my chair would hit against the corner of my desk. That has now been rectified, as the piano is on the wall where my desk used to be. Thus, no interference.
However, once I started rearranging everything, I forgot one of the main reasons for arranging my room as it was when I moved in. There is a light switch in my room that is connected to a single outlet. Since my room has no overhead lighting, I bought a lamp and plugged it into that one outlet. Now, the surge protector I use for my electronics takes up that outlet, and I have to change my habits to avoid ever hitting that light switch on the wall, lest my computer get shut off when it shouldn’t have been. I also have to manually turn the lamp on and off, which is annoying.
However, I feel the space is more nicely aligned now, with more free space in the center than before. Every once in a while I think it’s good to rearrange some items in your life, just to get a new, though small, perspective on how things were before.