Burning Question: Sleep Around?
I think we can all admit that sometimes we get bored by our routines and occasionally feel the need to mix things up a bit. Right?
So that’s why we’re wondering if you guys, like us, ever cheat on your master bedroom and spend the night in another room of the house? Maybe you’ve wanted to test out the guest bedroom before the in-laws visit (is the mattress a dream or a nightmare?). Or a renovation has forced you to find another sleep spot for a few nights (like when our recent floor refinishing drove us to a mattress in the den). And we can’t forget the always fun adventure of camping in your own backyard…
We don’t own a tent, but we did celebrate a recent warm night by sleeping on the daybed in our sunroom. It was a good reminder that twin beds are not designed for two adults and a squirmy chihuahua. And that the sun comes up too early. But it was a little at-home adventure none the less. Enough about us – what’s your sleep around story?
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Generally do not sleep around as DH doesn’t like to and I just don’t like sleeping without him. Nor do we switch sides, that would be too strange. But… I have not slept in our bed for about the last three months! Save the occasional night here and there. I have discovered how comfortable our sofa is on my (then) 9-mos-pregnant body and now cuddling with a newborn who likes to be up every couple hours. Comfy, but I can’t wait to get back to my own bed. :)
We haven’t done a lot of this but I love the idea! Although the bed in our guest room used to be mine before we moved in together and it is retired for a reason. But I think I will ask the hubs if he would do some backyard camping or make a living room pallet with me :o)
Hey you guys! Just wanted to pop in and say that I’ve been voting and just saw that you guys were in 1st PLACE!!!! Wooohooo…I hope you stay there :)
Marelis
We recently had to spend the night on the sectional sofa due to loud drying fans in the bedroom, drying water from our neighbors water heater. Ahhh, fun condo life. Thought it would be fun at first to stay up late and watch movies and fall asleep on the sofa, then realized I wasn’t in college anymore and was getting to old for that kinda thing. Good thing this only lasted two nights!!
During the summer, we have our guest room (on the first floor) ready to go, because our bedroom (on the second floor and west facing) can get very hot in the evening. I or my husband and I start the night downstairs and move upstairs once things cool off. And I can vouch for the guest bed being very very comfortable.
Kari–in sunny Milwaukee
We have our mattress and boxsprings on the office floor (cramped, yeah.) while we finish up the master bedroom. We just put a wall at the front of the closet (was floor to ceiling doors) so that we can have bi-fold doors, and then painted the entire room. Now the crown moulding is going up after work/before kiddo bedtime. Hopefully I’ll re-assemble my room this week. :)
Occasionally, my husband and I will pull out the sleeper from the sofa and watch movies in the living room on a lazy weekend. It’s fun to revisit that sleepover feeling from childhood. We also love to camp, which leaves us sleeping in weird places sometimes- in the car, on the ground, hammocks in trees, or just the tent- but we LOVE the outdoor adventure of it all!
I sleep in my backyard in my tent occasionally. I live on a corner lot, though, so people can see me in the tent so I get nervous sometimes. My boyfriend’s yard is more condusive to sleeping outside since his is more private. :)
My boyfriend and I are trying to train our puppy to sleep in his grate, which we have recently moved from our bedroom to the living room. So, we have been sleeping on the couches in the living room until the lil guy gets used to being out there. There has to be an easier way!!
I just bought my first home at the end of April. You wouldn’t believe the struggles I went through to get to sleep in it! First of all, the queen sized mattress and boxspring wouldn’t fit up the stairs. I mean, at all. Several friends came over insisting they could get it up, how hard could it be, etc, and all of them left scratching their heads. So for the first three weeks, I kept the mattress and boxspring in the dining room! One of the things I love about this big old house is its huge windows (3′x6′ or bigger, with many per room), but unfortunately that means huge window treatments. I ended up not being able to sleep at the house for almost 2 weeks before I had enough curtains to cover my backside from the neighbors (no big front lawn like you’ve got — it’s about 4 square feet before the sidewalk on a very busy street!). It’s been a minor adventure, but I finally got my bed upstairs about a week ago. Oh, and if you were wondering how we did it, we took out an upstairs window and shoved the thing up that way!
We love movies and my husband likes to go all cozy with some pillows, blanckets and ice cream when we watch them so it’s inevitable that we’ll fall asleep eventually while we watch. So, occasionally we put the air mattress in front of our couch and camp out in the family room all night!
just voted too! good luck!