Lounge round-up

Our kitchen and the lounge are tied for being the hub of the flat (aka the gathering place or the meeting ground). The kitchen is a hub because, can you guess why? Because there’s food there! It’s also often warmish from cooking and it is a pathway between the front rooms and the back rooms. The lounge on the other hand is behind a closed door in winter (to keep in heat) and has a heat pump and TV. We don’t use the TV for watching TV but rather for watching movies. Movies are $1-for-8-days from the video store up the road! At any given movie there are a couple of us from this flat as well as someone from our Bryndwr community. So we reduce energy use by sharing entertainment. We also keep blankets in the lounge to be extra snug, and that way we don’t have to heat the room as much. We have been hosting craft night for the past few months once a fortnight. Shanti hosts a Dungeons and Dragons night every week, not to mention the board game nights that crop up every few weeks. These events keep our lounge very busy!

Light in the lounge is very important. It needs to be bright enought to work by but also not too harsh. We have opted to have 2 bulbs in the ceiling for working purposes. Then when we need to have a relaxed atmosphere we turn on the lamp and turn the roof lights off.