another beautiful day in WA
Must be a perfect morning. Wes left just after 6:30 to get coffee via the motorcycle and he won't be home for ages. I heard him ask me if I wanted to go, but I thought I'd stay in bed for a few and just take it easy this morning. I'm not in the mood to put on all that gear to feel the wind blow my hair into tangles and then have to come home and rush around to get ready for church.
Right now the house smells like dead cow. I will need to get used to this "new leather" couch (I think you can buy a spray for your car with this scent) smell. Although I'd like to have a sofa table behind it, I just realized that's out of the question since the backs recline. The accent pillows are all sewn and stuffed, and I'm still working on getting the fringe sewn on by hand. So, I am on the hunt for 2 end tables, right now I'm using a tv tray for one.
I am a patient person. I know this because if I were a decorator or could pay for a decorator, all of this would be done. Instead it is taking me year after year of this stuff! Room by Room. Now it's the living room. Once the furniture is situated there is still artwork to finish and some walls to paint. I'm amazed that I didn't realize I wanted to do this all myself. MY pillows, MY cushion covers, MY artwork, MY painting and faux finishing.
I have to say that I'm motivated somewhat by my neighbor. She is the decorator, ordering special pieces of furniture and accessories and lighting fixtures, contracting a painter who came in and painted every wall for a month before Annie moved in. Annie owns expensive art prints, most from Hawai'i. I liken this to a show on HGTV. Although it's not design on a dime stuff, it does seem like Sensible Chic. That show has people take a picture from a decorator magazine and they use the actual decorator from that room in the picture to advise people on how to duplicate the look of the room for about a tenth of the price. So, Annie would have the room from the magazine and I would be the "do it for a tenth of the price".
Since there is no deadline to speak of, I just putz around here and do projects when I have collected all the materials for them. I guess my show would be "Hawaiian Style, Hawaiian Time"
Right now the house smells like dead cow. I will need to get used to this "new leather" couch (I think you can buy a spray for your car with this scent) smell. Although I'd like to have a sofa table behind it, I just realized that's out of the question since the backs recline. The accent pillows are all sewn and stuffed, and I'm still working on getting the fringe sewn on by hand. So, I am on the hunt for 2 end tables, right now I'm using a tv tray for one.
I am a patient person. I know this because if I were a decorator or could pay for a decorator, all of this would be done. Instead it is taking me year after year of this stuff! Room by Room. Now it's the living room. Once the furniture is situated there is still artwork to finish and some walls to paint. I'm amazed that I didn't realize I wanted to do this all myself. MY pillows, MY cushion covers, MY artwork, MY painting and faux finishing.
I have to say that I'm motivated somewhat by my neighbor. She is the decorator, ordering special pieces of furniture and accessories and lighting fixtures, contracting a painter who came in and painted every wall for a month before Annie moved in. Annie owns expensive art prints, most from Hawai'i. I liken this to a show on HGTV. Although it's not design on a dime stuff, it does seem like Sensible Chic. That show has people take a picture from a decorator magazine and they use the actual decorator from that room in the picture to advise people on how to duplicate the look of the room for about a tenth of the price. So, Annie would have the room from the magazine and I would be the "do it for a tenth of the price".
Since there is no deadline to speak of, I just putz around here and do projects when I have collected all the materials for them. I guess my show would be "Hawaiian Style, Hawaiian Time"
posted by leona at 7:57 AM
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