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I've been dreading & procrastinating stripping out the forepeak. I finally realized why:

- It has no natural light, unless you leave the head door open.
- It's a tiny, tiny cave.
- It sits on top of the holding tank (= septic tank) and right next to a toilet that's at least 20 years old.

And I thought I was going to sleep there!!

I realized that I like the quarter berth. I like waking up next to the water supply and the radio, then looking around at some very pretty wood and the busy heart of my busy little life.

I got a lovely roll of foam last week that I was going to turn into settee cushions. I'm going to use it as the foundation of my new bed in the quarter-berth. It's a much less intimidating place to strip and refinish, and that means down-time will be minimal.

The forepeak is going to be my office, as I originally contemplated (last year.) I miss having a wide, flat space to stretch out in -- both in the sense of spreading a project out, and in the sense of opening up my joints and staying limber. I don't mind working in a cave, I just can't feature the dreams my impressionable subconscious would come up with if I were sleeping there.