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I’m still a little sore from moving my piano Friday. We got a new sofa. You know what that means– time to rearrange the furniture. Only thing is, I’m NOT a visual person. I have to move each piece to see if I like it there or not. This drives the men in my home crazy, so I send them away and do it all myself. The antique piano is on wheels, but still it is very heavy. I didn’t move it far :-)
How about the rest of you? Are you visual? Can you imagine the way you want something to look and have it turn out that way?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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JeanieSpokane on May 28 at 9:36 a.m.
Oh, I visualize alright - it’s getting my vision from my head to the floor. I’ve even made paper furniture and a scale drawing and there’s just so many places that you can put big furniture in a little room.
I moved my piano too from the dining room to the living room. I had to lay on the floor and push it with my feet, inching along. Took me about two hours.
toadman on May 28 at 10:00 a.m.
I am very visual. I sometimes see things that aren’t really there.
;-)
Cis on May 28 at 10:01 a.m.
I just go for it… but I will tell you one thing that makes it easy, and that is those round thingies they advertised on tv. Where you slip this little disk under the foot of what ever you are moving. It is the slickest product I have ever bought. I have moved everything. Even a full file cabinet and a huge treadmill. Just tilt the piece slightly and slip the disk under with your foot. It moves things amazingly easy. I have bought a box of them for every woman friend and my daughter. They are the best thing since slice pie.
piah on May 28 at 10:02 a.m.
Sometimes - it doesn’t always quite work out - but I have a knack for remembering the correct shade of color, even if I don’t have a sample with me.
It’s more difficult for me to visualize a flower bed, when the perennials are only two inches tall. But I’m learning.
Cabbage Boy on May 28 at 10:45 a.m.
My wife is the visual person. She needs to see each item in several places. I am just the brawn behind the brains. :)
cpalisa on May 28 at 10:45 a.m.
I have great difficulty visuaizing anything and it is really frustrating. I have to see it done, then decide, much to my poor husband’s chagrin. I have never understood how people can build/buy a house based on looking at the floorplan. I have to walk through a house just like it. It could be the perfect house but if I can’t see it physically then I’d never know. My husband is an engineer and he views things completely different from me.
Frum Helen Back on May 28 at 11:12 a.m.
I don’t care where the furniture is as long as I can find a place to sit. Consequently, my husband is happy that there is one thing we can’t disagree on.