tent in the house

This is the current state of our livingroom. As you can see, there is a screened-dining-tent in there. Partly this is because we needed to dry it out after a recent rainy camping trip...

... but the other reason is that this is our "guestroom"...

We live in a two bedroom apartment but I've taken over the 2nd bedroom as a studio/workshop. By setting up the tent I can still work and compute in peace even when we have guest/guests... which we do, right now.

I tried to make it really cozy, almost cabin-like, in there so that our guests don't feel too uncomfortable about sleeping in a tent inside an apartment inside a high-rise.

The fold-down sides of this dining tent allow our guests some privacy (as opposed to having an air mattress in a wide open room and changing in the one and only bathroom all the time).

Also, it's a really tall tent - so you can stand at your full height.

It's got a nice rug, a quilt, a hudson bay blanket, etc.

I scored this little red table from the dumpster area of our building the night before our guest arrived. It was broken but easily fixed.

A trunk for putting the guest's stuff on. Also some light reading material and a fan. (There's also Lego in the trunk if one gets really bored!)

It's got twinkle lights!
(... and also our cheap Ikea light fixture that had to be moved to put the tent up... it looks sort of like a patio latern...)

I left one of the tent walls up (facing a real wall) so that it didn't feel too muggy or claustrophobic.

The Jack Bush poster on the real wall blends nicely with the Canadiana-cabin-feel. (He was a Canadian abstract painter... also, his name is just great: Jack like a Jack Pine, Bush like forest/wilderness/etc.)

So there you have it Potential Guests. This is where you'll stay if you come to visit. Hope you like it and I hope you will drop by!

(...but please note, I'm only setting up the tent for those staying more than one night!! haha!!)

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