Feeling Like Sheet

I am home sick today.

Yesterday I had a sore throat all day which is always the dark horseman of the apocalypse of sickness for me. As soon as I get a sore throat I know what's up. And so I was not surprised to wake up early this morning and feel like a truck had hit me in my sleep.

It's fuckin' on.

Now, what you should know about me is I am a couch sick person, not a bed sick person. So while I feel utterly like crap, I want to be in the living room on the couch and not in the bed like a for real invalid.

Up until a few weeks ago however, this would have been impossible. You see, my apartment is a sauna. I know it's summer and everyone is hot, but my apartment brings it to the next level. It's 80 outside? It's at least 90 in here. It's 90 outside? You don't even want to come in here. This is our first summer in the apartment and we knew it would be hot since it's on the top floor. Which is why we got a second air conditioner when we moved here, thinking it would go in the living room.

The only problem is that there is an open doorway from the living room to the rest of the apartment, no door. So we would need a heavy duty AC to have enough power to cool the room without their being a door to trap the cold air. As our luck would have it our living room windows are too small for that kind of machine. But the AC we bought for the living room was too small for a room without a door.

Some may have given up and just hung out in the cool air conditioning of the bedroom all summer. But we here at Chez Sarah-and-Adam love a challenge. So, we improvised.

We initially planned on hanging a lovely velvet curtain and equally lovely wrought iron curtain rod above the doorway but that ended up as most things do that are planned without measuring anything or thinking ahead about whether that would actually work, poorly.

So I now give you plan B: The Flannel Sheet Door

It's all the rage, didn't you hear? I'm surprised Pottery Barn doesn't have them in



I know you probably want one of our own so let me give you the step by step towards creating your own Flannel Sheet Door.

1) Find an old flannel flat sheet (We used LL Bean). If at all possible it should not match your decor (see above).
2) Affix it to a door-less doorway using thumbtacks. I used clear ones but multicolored ones would definitely add some panache for the Flannel Sheet Door admirer with bold tastes.
3) Use a cloth napkin folded lengthwise several times to tie back the door when not in use.



Et Voila!

You heard it here first: Flannel sheets can keep you warm in the winter and cool in the summer!

Now if you will excuse me I have some languishing to do.