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poshcat encouraged me to post more home pictures. I don't consider these rooms to be done. I'm missing crucial things like rugs, lamps, light fixtures, house plants, and a few textural items like baskets. Some of the projects, like the screen I built from re-claimed house shutters aren't completely finished. The screen hides Magz' litter boxes btw. I did just re-arrange the living room today, hung all the art in my bedroom, and installed the curtain tie-backs -- I found them quite by accident at Lowe's last weekend, they were $5 a pair! AND the crystal ball ends matched my curtain rods. I couldn't resist them. They have *really * improved the look of my curtains.

Yes, re-decorating/re-modeling my house, work, working out, eating, and sleeping really is all I do.

I moved the chairs around today and the plant. I'm much happier with it now. It feels more like two defined spaces, the foyer and the living room. When I manage to get my rug in it will define the areas even more.

This is my office/study. There's a 1970's Wonder Woman thing in the middle of over the book cases. The screen I built is on the right.

The cabinet is the second piece to my china cabinets. They don't fit side by side anymore. I'm undecided what to do with it as now so it's staying in the office for the time being. One of the glass doors broke during the move so I'm toying with the idea of re-doing both doors in stained glass. Projects. I need to putty holes in the screen, wash it down really well and repaint the entire thing. Projects, every where I look.

This is as you walk in my bedroom. It's very purple. And gray. I have to decorate in my bedroom to accommodate my insomnia. Everything has to be cool and calm.

As of this week I have doorknobs on all my doors! It's the little things that make you feel like you're winning.

I'm not certain what my bedroom needs at this point. I'd love to have a leaning mirror in that one corner and put that picture on the floor beside my bookcases in the office. But I don't have a leaning mirror. Another thought -- one that makes me happiest of all -- is to put a vanity on that wall [the wall with the closet] and have a dressing table. My dresser is far too cluttered with all my assorted jewelry boxes and box boxes. I have something of a box fetish. Especially wooden boxes. Or bowls, I fucking adore wooden bowls.

Dining Room today after installing holdbacks and digging up some old candlesticks

And that's it for today. My bathroom upstairs is officially decorated but I still need to get all the paint off the floor and tub.

http://pics.livejournal.com/turnonmyheels/gallery/0001gtdd My First Place for before pictures and

and http://pics.livejournal.com/turnonmyheels/gallery/0002a81x
My First Place - My Style for in progress and finished
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Squee! Your place is looking GOOD. ::admires from afar:: I truly love the colours you've painted the walls. Warm and pretty! You seem to have chosen everything so carefully - our place is full of all sorts of clutter and junk, so good for you for going above and beyond ordinary. Your home is extremely inviting. Thanks so much for posting these.

PS What's up with your coffe table/ottoman? It looks like it might just be a Transformer.

I wrote out a fucking essay in reponse to you and LJ ate it. ::sigh::

How about a synopsis of the lost essay?

Thank you!

It's only really 4 colors, a lot of the different shades of yellow that are coming through is the effect of the lighting. Bathroom is a 1970s Make-Up Tan. Bedroom is a pale neutral gray. The yellow tone is a gold color called Autumn Waves and the one red wall is called Neon Red. They're all colors from Benjamin Moore.

Probably 75 percent of things you see came from my old very tiny apartment that I had decorated to an inch of its life. I came up with a color pallet and decided to go eclectic mashing together the following styles: contemporary [couch/chair/ottoman/rugs], traditional [all the colors and trim moldings, bedroom furniture], hollywood regency/art deco [dining chairs, dining light fixture, stained glass, full length curtains, art], with a touch of modern [kitchen light fixture, new lamps, some art]. Unfortunately my cabinets came country, but I bumped them up to contemporary with the pulls I chose. And my dining room table is antique craftsman but paired with those hollywood regency chairs it looks far more elegant than it should.

All those dressers and the ottoman you see hide a SHIT TON of junk.

Dear LJ, don't eat this one

Edited 2012-01-23 01:18 (UTC)

The ottoman is a transformer. It's sectioned into four parts [they currently house DVDs, cat brushes, and pedicure equipment]. The tops are reversible: tray or cushions. I normally keep 1 tray up and the other 3 turned toward cushion.

I love your warm color scheme. Your place seems so lived-in and cozy.

aw, thank you!

Home!!

:-D Someday, you'll even see it in person!

Someday. Hopefully someday not too far from now.

We've just cut hours at work from 37.5 to 32. That still gets me full-time benefits, but it cuts my pay. *sigh* I'm applying for a job at the ski area (full-time, year round) and I'm waiting to apply for a job at the library since we've got someone having a baby and not coming back after (she's due in May). But as the boss and I discussed, better for now to be employed at fewer hours than unemployed. So... no vacation plans yet.

It is better to have fewer hours than no hours, but still -- I feel for you.

Yeah. It sucks, but it's a job. And it's easier to get a job when you already have one.

Just like it's easier to find a place to live if you already have one, life isn't fair in too many ways.

Wow, it all looks so GREAT. Your bedroom looks so grown-up and... delightful! And I love ALL of your project ideas! And I think the idea of a little vanity would be charming. I totally feel your pain on the boxes - I cut waaaay back, but my dresser still has too a Collection.

Go you on the doorknobs. And seriously, I know you see a lot of work ahead? But you have accomplished SO much!

::beams:: THANK YOU!

My parents bought that bedroom furniture [well, the bed, dresser with mirror and nightstand] when I was 15. I was informed immediately that I would not be allowed to take it from their house until I bought a house. It was re-gifted to me when I moved in back in April. I have MISSED MY FOUR POSTER BED, YO.

It was their contribution to my Gone With The Wind obsession furniture wise. The high-boy I bought at auction just happened to work perfectly with it. The actual chest of drawers that belongs with the bedroom set is in the office. It looks really rough compared to the rest of it, one too many moves with either too tired or careless movers, I think. One side is scarred so badly it looks like Freddie Krueger attacked it.

I desperately want a vanity. Every time I think I've found one, I get sticker shock. Or it's the right price but falling apart, so much apart I can't justify it as a project.

viverra_libro suggested I shop for a small desk and convert it to vanity [ which is what she did and her result was an art deco masterpiece] but I haven't found any small desks either.

You know, I just had a conversation with Tom about the oddness of cats and boxes. Now I realize I have the same problem, except I don't climb inside of boxes, I put them on my dresser.

Aside from: building a roof for the front porch and screening it in and installing flooring/baseboards upstairs, the bulk of the work is finished. I've got a punch list about 30 items long for painting/caulking, but the rest of it is down to about 12 things!!!!

Let's not talk about the yard, it's its own challenge. :-)

Edited 2012-01-24 18:42 (UTC)