The square room

I thought I would start by doing a post for each room and explaining how we're using them so far. Today's room is the square room! The square room is the only room with a flat surface. This means that with a baby, it's the room that gets the most use. We use it as our bedroom at night, and as a nursery during the day.

Here's the room as you look in:



The door is strangely the only Japanese thing about the whole apartment...



During the day we fold our futons up so that we have more floor space:



And at night we roll them out to sleep on. They cover almost the entire floor space!



We have a baby-sized futon that I was planning to put Elliott in at night, but at the moment he sleeps on my futon at night. With no crib and space at a premium, we are "attachment parenting" by default!



I hope to use the baby-sized futon for naps during the day, because for now he ends up looking like this:



There is next to no storage in our Reversible Destiny Loft and no free-standing furniture, but in the square room there is a rod hanging from the ceiling that we use to hang clothes on:



Unlike in Canada, there's no space for a change table for the baby, so during the day we keep a waterproof pad laid out for easy nappy changes. At night it's a free-for-all. We're lucky there haven't been any accidents so far!



The carpet you see in the above photo is a "hot carpet", which means when it's turned on the whole floor is toasty warm. This is good, considering there isn't central heating in our loft! We've been keeping the carpet turned on at night to keep us warm.

So there you have it! The square room!