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And here we are to delve into the mundane.
I said I didn`t particularly want to delve into the pointless when it came to Motoki – but the rest of my life is open.

Most recently, we have moved Motoki into his own room. That is material for another post of it`s own… But the move sparked a number of small household improvements outside of that corner of the house. I suppose making a room into a bedroom sort of puts you in the mood to do all those little improvement projects that build up over the years.

Today, we tackled the laundry room curtains.

We have a dedicated laundry room. This may seem to be quite normal and not at all special – unless you happen to live in Japan. Then I think you will see the joy and coolness. People don`t usually have laundry rooms. Maybe laundry corners, or a little closet looking space to hide the washing machine – but not a room by any stretch. The washer is usually next to or in the direct vicinity of the bathroom (as in bath, not toilet) sink.

Anyway, our laundry room has a large window. The room itself sort of protrudes from the building, so the window is actually the corner of the room. This has made it impossible for us to install curtains for the longest time. We`d planned to install blinds but the special curtain rod, it`s installation, and the fancy blinds were quite expensive (Quote of 80,000yen – think $800). When Motoki was born we were in the process of signing for this place, so cut all the corners to save money for whatever may have been waiting.  Laundry room blinds were very very low on the priority list. We thought countless times about putting in a curtain rail ourselves, but the window isn`t straight nor is it an equal corner. We would have had to order a rail.

While hunting for things needed in converting a room to Motoki`s room, we stumbled upon a flexible plastic curtain rail! And on top of that, it was a normal price! So we bought it, and today – finally, finally I was able to install proper curtains. Five years of poorly hung cafe curtains or none at all over.

Ah, weekend household projects.