Happy day, Spring is here! With the arrival of such nice weather and the sense that everything is expanding, it seems slightly ironic that we are celebrating the smallest, coolest things we can find in the city, but that is what we are doing this month... all in preparation for Spring Cleaning in May.
And we invite you to participate.
Where is the smallest, coolest, most useful home store that you know of?
It could sell lighting, accessories, furniture, hardware or repair any of the above. Bring on your suggestions with a few complete sentences, and if they're good we'll add them to the Stores Guide. MGR
What about "twin"?!
You know Christ...there's an underground stigma about adults sleeping in anything smaller than a queen sized bed. I know...it sounds crazy to me too! Somehow there are people who feel that, whether single or not, an adult should need, should want a super sized bed.
For example, when moving into my apt a year ago, my sister (who is a self proclaimed guru on all things worth knowing)scoffed at the notion that I would think of buying a bed smaller than a queen. Well,I simply let her know that if I'm sleeping alone...I don't want to be reminded of that fact every time I jump into this heap-o-bed and if I happened to have company then I'd prefer that they were in close in proximity to me and if it takes the fact that the bed is just small enough for a 50 lb toddler then so be it! ;)
Yeah, what about twin beds? That's what I have because it fit into my tiny awkward railroad apartment and I wasn't expecting to have lots of bedfellows......
Except my boyfriend needed a place to live so we've been sharing my tiny twin for over a year now.
It's our shameful secret, but over the past year, we saved all of our change and were able to buy a queen mattress with it...
So if you hate your bed, save your change.
I'm 5'11", my husband is 6'4". When we first dated, he had a single bed. I thought that was great, because it proved he wasn't a playa! Then I spent the night! Ugh! But after 17 years we refuse to get anything larger than a queen. King size seems to big and distant.
I actually graduated up to a pullout couch!! I used to sleep in my studio on a twin air mattress, which was much more comfortable than most beds I've slept in. Got tired (no pun intended) of sleeping on the floor, though. It was hell some mornings literally getting up out of bed.
I am a mover and shaker in the bed (when alone and when the boy stays over) so a queen is absolutely essential. If I had the room I would definitely move to a king size bed (I, too, am 5'11" and the boy is 6'4" -- I guess that is trendy!).
When I 1st moved to NY I slept on a couch for 6+ months.
I later bought a cal king.
However it took a good portion of the room.
In addition to that whenever my ex-finace would come over she would always sleep on top of me...so essentially outside of "misbehaving" it was wasted real estate.
I eventually downgraded myself to a pillow top full and and over all very pleased with it. I could even get by with a twin. I sleep like the dead. (I don't move)