floorhoneymoon
/ˈflɔːˌhʌnɪmuːn/nounVerified NewThe first days in a new home spent sleeping on a floor mattress among boxes, experienced as adventure.
Takeout on a windowsill, a lamp on the floor, a mattress floating in an empty room — the phase is spartan and somehow festive. The floorhoneymoon ends when the first shelf goes up and domesticity's ordinary demands resume. Photographs of it are kept precisely because it was brief.
Etym. — floor + honeymoon — the charmed interval before the real arrangement begins.
Rel. — cratestasis
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