snow daze
February 10th, 2010 @ 5:02 pm | home | Post a CommentSo, you may have heard it snowed here in DC. Just a few inches feet yards stories of snow. Just a few six days stuck at home with nothing but bread, milk, and booze purchased in verrrrrrrry long lines at verrrrrrry crowded grocery stores. All of this time has provided me lots of opportunities to A. decorate my house; B. think about decorating of my house, and C. mess around with Picasa to compile photos related to decorating my house.
My photo collages, let me show you them:
This is our second bedroom, formerly seen in a terribly sad state here. As you can see, the lovely Lubi Daybed from CB2 is here, the walls are greige, the heinous vertical blinds are gone, and….that’s about it. But it already looks massively better than before, if still a bit boring.
I still need:
- Curtain panels – I can’t decide between a funky print or or plain white/billowy. I just want them to be cheap and chic.
- A rug or Flor tiles – If I go with plain curtains I might get a funky rug (maybe zigzag?), or funky curtains with a plain rug? Again, cheap and chic is the goal here, which is why I’m scouring craigslist daily.
- Lovely things for the walls – but this can wait until I have some kind of color scheme.
- Refinished furniture - I want to do something to make a few side tables a little prettier. And a dresser might be nice for storing extra clothes. Again, I’m waiting to come across a good bargain on something secondhand.
And then there’s the living room. We found a gently used Crate and Barrel sofa on craigslist for less than half the price of a new one just like it. As soon as this snow melts we can get it delivered, which will hopefully be before April. Honestly, I’m not super jazzed about chocolate brown (I’m more of a gray/pewter gal) but I think the price, shape, and quality are worth it in this case.
Clockwise from top left:
- Flor Botanicals carpet tiles – I really love these but would like to wait for Flor to have a sale before I purchase them.
- Spring Mint (the top, lightest shade) is the current paint color. Photo courtesy of this site.
- Inspiration on a built-in bookshelf. My parents are building me one next month!
- The plates on my wall. Chronicled at length in my archives.
- The C&B sofa we’re picking up this weekend.
It’s possible I am the slowest, most contemplative home decorator ever. When I watch reality shows where entire homes are redone in a matter of 48 hours, it’s almost hard to believe that is even possible. I have lived here for 2.5 years and still can’t decide on whether or not to get an area rug, let alone what color or size, and even once that’s decided it usually takes me 6+ months to commit to spending the money on whatever purchase I have finally come to grips with wanting. So I hope my snail’s-pace progress is entertaining at least, and maybe in another 2.5 years those damn curtains will be picked out, purchased, hung, photographed, and displayed for all eternity on the blog.
Do I sense you’re not as in love with the SNOW! as I am? Actually, I don’t think anyone is as in love with it as I am.
The bedroom looks awesome. I envy your slow and steady decorating pace… I get obsessed with one particular item/room, drive myself insane until it is remedied, and then hate the remedy two years later. It’s a terrible cycle.
written by Operation Pink Herring
February 10th, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
You’re too funny. You’re not even going to live in this house long enough to get it decorated I have a feeling!
written by the ambitious mrs
February 10th, 2010 @ 7:57 pm
I promise, you are not the slowest decorator. Our house came with vertical blinds when we bought it over 4 years ago, and guess what! Not a single curtain hung! I get intimidated every time I price them out. WHY are rectangles of fabric so freaking expensive?
Your inspiration pics for the living room are lovely!
written by RA
February 11th, 2010 @ 6:21 am
I love, love, love Flor tiles. But darn they are exspensive aren’t they? I to comtemplated an area rug for almost a year. We had two beautiful jute rugs that our dogs promptly chewed/peed/slobbered on and they were never the same. I ended up going with a really fun rug from Target. Their Fieldcrest line is pretty nice, and if you wait until it goes on sale then not to $$.
Good luck! Are you going snow crazy yet? The fact that we have another storm next week is making me twitch…
written by Ashlie
February 11th, 2010 @ 7:09 am
I’ve got you beat. Almost 4 years in my house and only ONE room has curtains (the bedroom). And only two rooms in the whole house have been painted. The rest have white walls.
written by Liz
February 11th, 2010 @ 7:56 am
man i can’t imagine so much downtime with all the snow, oy. but the room looks great and that bed looks so fun already.
written by katelin
February 11th, 2010 @ 3:15 pm
Stop by my blog – I gave you the Sunshine Award!
xoxo
written by lesli
February 12th, 2010 @ 9:53 am
I had completely forgotten about Flor tiles! I love rugging up my hardwood floored apt and finding the right sizes, colors, and price has been impossible! I’ve ended up putting two Target rugs in a row to create a hallway runner – but I think I need some of those sticky dots to keep them together.
BTW- the flor pattern you have on your post is on sale . . . two dollars off per three pack? I’m a bit confused but it is slightly closer to reasonable. Who decided that furniture and rugs needed to be so expensive?
written by Betsy
February 12th, 2010 @ 10:56 am
Get that furry cat off the new dubi!
written by Alexa
February 28th, 2010 @ 3:28 pm
Hi Janet…wondering if you knew what became of Elise of the All or Nothing blog? Sort of just dropped off the face of the Earth. Thanks, Mike
written by mike
March 2nd, 2010 @ 10:46 am
You can check out decorpad.com for design inspiration and create a design board to layout all of the items you want in your newly designed room on polyvore.com. You save pictures of things you love and then drag them over to your board.
written by Heather
March 8th, 2010 @ 8:32 am