So something that has been irrationally irritating Matt (even he agrees it is irrational) since we first viewed the house is this weird little bench near where the new HVAC system was installed.
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| Deconstruction already started since Matt couldn't wait |
At first we thought it was part of the HVAC ductwork, but all the known ductwork doesn't seem to enter the bench. In addition, it was almost certainly built into place when the addition was put in and the main door was shrunk. For those who didn't know, the whole yellow family room is an addition to the original house; that is why it is about a foot lower and has no basement under it. Because it bugged Matt to no end, he decided during some downtime to pull the sucker apart. After much coaxing and cursing from Matt and just plain belligerence from inanimate pieces of wood (I swear the things were out to get me!), we opened up the wondrous bench to find.....
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| The only thing in it is the supports that make it up |
Nothing but cobwebs and disappointment. The useless bench is really useless! Someone went out of their way to create this horrible little thing. It is really too high to comfortably sit on and way too low to set stuff on.
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| Just look how awkward that positioning is |
Due to this amazing and totally unexpected discovery (note the dripping sarcasm leaking from your computer screen...), there is some debate on what to do next. Danielle is of the opinion we should turn the useless bench into a much more useful storage and seating apparatus. Matt thinks that the bench would be too small and out of the way to serve any useful purpose and should be demolished in favor of expanding the doorway from the kitchen back to its original 5' from the current 2.5' to open up the house more.
Luckily we have plenty of time to figure this out as the useless bench is a minor (but somehow uniquely irritating) annoyance. Hopefully, Matt can put the wood covering back on so the bench is merely useless again and not a spiky forest of doom looking for a careless rear end.
I wonder if the previous owners put a decoration on it. I think a lighted tree would look very nice and give you a pretty view through the breakfast room window. I also agree with Danielle (surprise) that it would make a nice storage bench. You can never have enough storage and why do you need a bigger door anyway?
ReplyDeleteIDK, though I really dislike that fake door on the right. It is impossible to see through and is really bad looking. So we will be replacing that at the very least.
DeleteYour dad didn't get that I was being sarcastic when I said it was a surprise that I agreed with Danielle. I guess I should have said "I agree with Danielle (as usual)." Hopefully you got it, but other readers may not so I thought I'd make sure that was clear as I love my DIL!!!
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