Lofty Ideas: Mobile Art for Adults
source: http://www.awakenedaesthetic.com/2011/04/hanging-mobiles-art-for-adults/
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When I was little, I begged my mother for a loft bed.
[go to site to view image of loft bed]
My tastes were not this refined and our ceilings not this high, but if someone had showed my ten-year-old self this photo, that ten-year-old would immediately place it in front of her mother triumphantly, exclaiming that this is exactly what she needed.
(It’s too bad that ten-year-old had just gotten a new bed frame and would use that same frame for years, until she moved bought a new bed that could accommodate more than one small woman and a cat. Sex: the killer of all twin bed frames.)
My obsession with loft beds – and lofts, and other layered sorts of things – had little to do with being up high, or having the privacy that comes with a bed out of an adult’s line of sight. I just liked the idea of using space to my advantage. I wanted to utilize as much of my bedroom as possible, creating rooms within rooms and neat little crevices. Who cares about floors and walls and ceilings when you have all this space in between?
Recently, I found out one of my friends is getting his very own loft bed. I’m jealous. I’m also excited, because his new obsession – decorating his bedroom and the space beneath his bed – has given me my own lofty ideas about utilizing and celebrating space, the most exciting of which is the idea of mobiles.
[See all of the mobiles and where to purchase them at the link below.]
http://www.awakenedaesthetic.com/2011/04/hanging-mobiles-art-for-adults/
[go to site to view image of loft bed]
My tastes were not this refined and our ceilings not this high, but if someone had showed my ten-year-old self this photo, that ten-year-old would immediately place it in front of her mother triumphantly, exclaiming that this is exactly what she needed.
(It’s too bad that ten-year-old had just gotten a new bed frame and would use that same frame for years, until she moved bought a new bed that could accommodate more than one small woman and a cat. Sex: the killer of all twin bed frames.)
My obsession with loft beds – and lofts, and other layered sorts of things – had little to do with being up high, or having the privacy that comes with a bed out of an adult’s line of sight. I just liked the idea of using space to my advantage. I wanted to utilize as much of my bedroom as possible, creating rooms within rooms and neat little crevices. Who cares about floors and walls and ceilings when you have all this space in between?
Recently, I found out one of my friends is getting his very own loft bed. I’m jealous. I’m also excited, because his new obsession – decorating his bedroom and the space beneath his bed – has given me my own lofty ideas about utilizing and celebrating space, the most exciting of which is the idea of mobiles.
[See all of the mobiles and where to purchase them at the link below.]
http://www.awakenedaesthetic.com/2011/04/hanging-mobiles-art-for-adults/
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