TV In The Bedroom? We Say Yes.: a house log

We are bringing someone else into the bedroom. And it is… gasp… a TV.

We were originally anti-TV-in-the-bedroom, so we know it is not for everyone (and it is downright sinful to some) but we only have one TV in our whole house – in the living room – and this guy was simply sitting unused in the playroom (ever since we upsized the living room one since he was not large sufficient to in fact see from the sofa)… so we have gone and changed our minds. Haha. There is in fact a real reason behind the decision: more and more we have been thinking about how we have issues with work/life balance and it is hard for us to “shut off.” Which is why we consistently end up working on the couch with our laptops and the TV on in the background. But a TV in the bedroom could become a no-work-and-no-multi-tasking spot – so we would not allow any laptops or work to take place in the room and we could in fact concentrate on our go-to shows.

Simply pure relaxation and zombie-apocalypse/Dexter viewing. What can I say, that is our idea of a hot date. And I know there is an old saying that a TV in the bedroom might keep you from… ahem… other activities. But we figure if things like caring for a toddler, renovating rooms, writing a book, and maintaining a journal do not get in the way, that is nothing a little TV in the bedroom could change. Aaand, now I am blushing. Moving on.

Not gonna lie, it sounds downright heavenly to wake up on a lazy Sunday and watch a movie in bed with the bean instead of sitting on the sofa and immediately snapping into “we should be working” mode and grabbing our laptops.

And let us simply say a wall with a dresser and a TV are straight up spa-like when compared to this ridiculously cluttered before:

So I returned from all of our tour flights with a fire burning under my buns to whip the wall that we stare at every. single. night. into shape. The first step was simply putting things where they in fact belonged (books we had read went under the built-ins in the dining room with the rest of our collection, empty boxes got broken down and stashed in our recycling bin, the lamp moved back to where it should be, etc).

Then I moved our mid-century side tables (remember we phased them out here?) into the guest room. Now that we yard-saled the old dresser that was in there we have a fully bare wall – and two of them next to each other in fact look like a console against it. I owe you folks a picture, but it certainly works for now. We do not know if we will eventually use them in Clara’s big girl room, so we will have to keep you posted.

Anyway, once those were out of the way we could properly center the dresser (which was one of the only secret book projects that we paid for and kept since we were so in love with it – you might recognize it from this video). It sits directly across from our bed – for our prime viewing pleasure – and then we simply plopped the old too-small leftover living room TV on the top.

So far, it totally works for us. Wait, except not literally. It is not in fact hooked up to cable or anything yet, so… womp-womp. Nothing to watch. Perhaps I will “dude, get on that” in a week or two (returning from tour stuff + Thanksgiving week = too much going on to sit on hold with Verizon). Perhaps I will have the patience next week?

Oh and I have heard that it is bad feng shui to sleep across from a TV or a mirror, but we in fact slept facing a giant floor length mirror for a few years at our first house and did not have issues sleeping or anything like that- thank goodness. So perhaps we are immune? Haha.

Honestly, my go-to thing about the dresser in fact being centered and cleared of clutter is that I get to put cute little jewelry dishes up there (which tie into the color of the rug, you know, because I am coo-coo-for-stuff-like-that).

Also hanging out up there: wood blocks in our initials and our go-to number. Oh yeah, this stuff makes my day, folks. #noshameinmygame

So that is where we are. Slowly inching towards a bedroom that looks less blank-wall-here, cluttered-junky-wall-there. We will let you folks know how the whole TV thing goes once it is up and running. Who knows, we might end up never using it, hating it and removing it, or fairly much deciding we should never leave our room! Mostly I am simply excited that we can share photos of one of our go-to book projects on the journal. Yeehaw.

Do you folks have TV’s in the bedroom? I am dying to know the breakdown (is it 50/50? way more than not? quite rare indeed?) but the last time we embedded a poll it crashed our site, so we have cobbled this compact poll together over on Facebook so if you feel like playing along or checking out the tally, click here. Cannot wait to hear where you folks land!

Psst- Have you folks seen baby Weston yet? It was so exciting getting the call in the middle of the night that he came into the world safely and all was well with Katie and the fam. Clara loves him already – and after I showed her a picture in the morning she lovingly said “I want to bother him.” Cute, right?