Ikea Sofa Bed

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ed is one of those typical untidy boys. and him being him, all sentimental, keeps ALL things. he even has worksheets from his RI days. he keeps every single book he has ever read since he was a kid. basically he stores everything. i’m perfectly fine with sentimental pple. i mean if u keep every single card or present or present wrapper even, that’s fine. but! u must tidy them. wads the point of having boxes of randomly thrown in presents/cards/old books/worksheets without organising them? i mean the purpose of keeping is so that u can remember and be able to go through them when u grow older. yanoe, look back at the good old days etc. but without organising ur oldies, it’s as good as throwing them away cuz in the first place, u wont even know where to start looking for them even if u want to. isnt it a lot easier to just organise them neatly. according to wadeva categories appropriate. eg. primary sch/ sec sch/ jc/ uni/ hall etc. at least u noe exactly where to look when u really wanna go through them. without organisation, they’re no different to junks honestly. anw, so we’ve been having this disagreement for the longest time cuz i cannot stand the state of mess his room is in and i cannot believe he’s been living in tt pig’s sty over a decade. i made him throw away a lot of stuff 2 years back. hahaha, it was one tough fight. this CNY, i attempted to make him clear up his room again. this time a tad more successful. i told him one basic rule. u wanna keep it? get organised. so it’s a choice between just flinging them right into the garbage bag on the floor or painstaking sort them out from the giant pile i pulled out from his cupboards. u see, u wont have to endure such pain if u got organised from the very beginning. storing them for 10 years and trying to get organised later is no joke. him being half lazy and half driven mad by my persistence, he threw quite a bit of stuff away. (thank god! hahaha)

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with everything out of the way, i helped him organise the remaining keepers neatly into the cupboards and freed up quite a bit of space. the long bench (see diagram below) by the window used to be flooded with books and notes has been entirely emptied. leaving a spacious wide area for him to carry out his electronic works (sth he has been very pleased abt). i also made him clear up the trash under his bed. they’ve been there for eternity. cny is just abt time for massive clean up. and the bed broke during the midst. hahaha. it has lived out his life i guess. the bed has been with him for over 10years since he moved into his current place. i suggested him to get a sofa bed so he cld free up more living space in the room. given the new found dimensions, he can have friends over for board games, have proper seating avenues. most friends used to sit on his bed to watch tv which is at an awkward angle. he thought abt it and agreed that a sofa bed will be an excellent idea. so where else better to get a sofa bed other than Ikea right? here’s the change in living space (shaded in blue) after ed got rid of his old bed and bought the new sofa bed. pretty good isnt it? :)

the sofa bed looks deceivingly small but it actually opens up to queen size! (slightly shorter in height. queen is 200, the sofa bed is 188, the difference is barely noticeable) if u remember, tt’s the couple pillow case i got him last year for vday. i sent it over to finland while he was on SEP :)

it’s an extremely worth it purchase and ed has been extremely pleased with the tranformation to his room. hahaha. this is the time where teepee says “what wld u do without meee?” MUWHAHAHAHHAHA.