If you fit a wall-bed in your room...

You may fit a wall-bed in the bedroom so that you can do some weight-lifting in the space freed up by the folding up of the bed.

But then let's say, the time taken for weight-lifting is just 30 minutes twice a week. Add 15 minutes for some preps to get ready for weight-lifting. So 45 minutes twice a week. That's it. The rest of the time, the bed can stay open.

For the sake of those 90 minutes, of course, you have to keep all the weights and barbell and bench (assuming the least amount of equipment) somewhere. Likely in the same room where you have the wall-bed and where you are going to do the weight-lifting. Is that too much?

When the equipment is lying in a dormant state and when the wall-bed stays open, is there enough room for movement around in the room?

Now, another point.

If you fit a wall-bed in your room, you may not find it a pleasurable experience if you do not quite know what you would do with/in the empty space when the bed folds up.

Typically when you don't know what to do, you end up sitting. And where would you sit if not on the bed. So the bed needs to be open when you don't know what to do with/in the empty space.

Yes, let me repeat it for my own sake. You would want to sit on the bed when you don't know what to do with/in the empty space when the bed is in a folded-up state.

That's a big problem.

What is your house space for?

B for...

...breathing. The most natural thing to do. Your body doesn't ask you if you want to breathe. Until of course, it tells you to do something about your breathing when you have a cold and the nose houses stuff it shouldn't.

S for strength. The most natural thing for the body. Until of course we put the bed in the room where we spend a hell lot of time and where this bed constantly blocks a range of movements that our body is naturally made for.

We can't survive without breathing. We can survive a long time without strength. Can we survive a long time enjoyably without strength?

3 SHK

It's that time of the year. And we got down to cleaning our room a few days back. Moved a lot of things. Rearranged a few.

Just for that day of cleaning, I moved the two yummy-colored kettlebells, 12-kg blue and 16-kg yellow, under a low shelf. Right when I was in that act of sliding them under the shelf, just for a moment, I wondered if I was doing the right thing. Would the shelf hide the kettlebells from me? And would that hiding affect their use in any way?

And this happened. I didn't come to lift them at all for the next 3-4 days. I didn't even touch them.

3 BHK = 3 Bedroom + Hall + Kitchen at the main spaces in the house

3 SHK = 3 Strengthroom (which allows for good sleeping too, if you have a doubt) + Hall + Kitchen

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Hurty kahin ke!

Endure (ouch!) the supreme calibre (ouch!) of life experiences (ouch!) at your place with the luxurious interior design that speaks (ouch! ouch! ouch!) about you (ouch! ouch! ouch! ouch!).

Look at that. Any attempt to make the precious body move in that copy and that interior design will hurt badly! So you shall stay put! And that which shall make you stay put shall be flipped into the kingly pleasure of sitting.

His Highness, now serving tea! Please have your seat!

Minimalizardism

You are promoting minimalism, right? 

Actually, the builder is promoting minimalizardism. Pardon that word if your tongue lisped and twisted in its attempt to appreciate the builder's philosophy. That's right though. If you are a lizard then you have ample space to move around, in and out and behind the things of the interior-designed house.

I am promoting strengthism. Elegantism. Dynamism. Springism. Strong-legism. Strong-armism. Uprightism. Movementism.

Lot of choice. Pick your -ism. Or, don't. 

Not moving purposefully

Some people find it so hard to move coz of course they have instituted the maids and servers as part of their interior design.

Some people find it so hard to move coz of course they have to work really hard while sitting in office so that they can afford to spend on interior design so that they don't have to move much.

Okkkke bye!

I am thin. I am breathing.

I get a lot of compliments. Check my selfies if you don't believe it.

I dance. I yoga.

I don't need any other strength.

Okkkke bye!

Strength lies in bull_____

My cousin's not in a great state physically. The reason isn't a serious pin-pointed bout of sickness but certain long-term quirks of metabolism or some other factors too.

Right now her appetite and, therefore her diet, isn't great. In her words, her simple diet keeps her in a manageable state. She knows internally what her body wants.

I shared with her my idea of interior design for strength, as a way to heal herself.

She feels it's bull****. She didn't utter the exact words, I must admit. Mildly in her words, my approach was external to internal, she approaches internal to external. I was flabbergasted. Hell ya, what does anyone know of anyone's internals. Can't be argued against whatsoever!

Interior design demands aesthetics (of objects and furnitures and fittings) and I should showcase that first, she opined. I was muttering inside, no no no, interior design demands consideration for the state of your body first.

Funny conversation.

Her reasoning: 'simple' diet (from observing her, very restricted veg diet) is the cure.

My reasoning: strength may heal certain bodily functions which may improve appetite which may improve her over-all physical state, aesthetically interior-designed house or not so designed kind of house.

Thank God, I have the strength to take a lot of s*** before someone interacting with me believes that strength helps and interior design can be designed for strength building.

Neighbor's envy, owner's pride!

One of the things about interior design is the compulsion to 'show'. Showing to one's own self may still be a great idea but it's the showing to others that becomes an issue. You end up designing for that show. Exhibition. Nothing wrong yet, one may say, if you've got ample space. Everything wrong if you don't have the space but all the desire to show.

Neighbor's envy, owner's pride!

Is that TV visible? Is that sofa visible? Is that curtain visible? Is that table visible? Is that artifact visible? Is that photo-frame visible? Is that certificate visible? Is that guitar visible? Is that car visible?

It's like, there's a list of 'show' items to be ticked while interior designing.

Checklists are a great tool generally. But this 'checklist of show' may not fetch any great results eventually. Now, you may have an argument that eventually everyone dies. Why not die with a show!