7 posts tagged “decorate”
Er, don't mind the bear. This bed is super tall, I kind of have to haul my ass up on it like I'm 5 years old. The set is super nice and it's scenting my room with the gentle aroma of new wood. See also the new bedside lamp with curly-metal accent.
I should paint in there but guh, I don't know.
It will arrive on Wednesday. I got the whole set you see in the pic, except for the mirror because that thing makes me make my scrunchy nose face. Not cute. The wood isn't as dark in real life and I'm not 100% in love with the bed but it's all wood and seems sturdy enough. I got the entire set and a nice little lamp for under $900 so whatever, yay.
I don't see it being the kind of furniture that I have forever and ever but it's nice enough. Everything else I've seen in that price range is "assemble it yourself" furniture and seriously, I'm sick of putting together furniture. Just lift it off a truck and plunk down in the room and leave, thank you.
I went to the same store I bought my sofa and mattress sets from last March (Harlem Furniture) and the sales guy remembered us. Isn't that weird? A lot of their stuff is over the top TACKY but there's some nice, simple stuff to be found and I like how they do business. They give you a furniture care kit when you buy wood furniture and I gushed about it so much (hey, FREE cleaning products??) that the sales guy gave my mom one, too. Hehe!
Now I need new bedding. I swear, after all this work and money, I'm never moving out of this apartment!
I'm far too lazy to paint but the white walls of my apartment are starting to close in on me. I love color, pattern and print but ART is expensive! So I'm trying to think of things to put on my walls. So far, I've thought of framing or mounting...
- Fabric
- Scrapbook paper. I have a ton of it and there are some pages that I just don't want to cut up! I'd probably mat one photo in the center of 12x12 pieces and frame those.
- Vintage wallpaper
- Maps of places I've been... that would be a fun collage
- Favorite pieces from my record collection. I should be doing this anyway to protect the autographed ones.
- Magazine pages but in a classy way, not in a 14 year old girl way.
The bad part is that frames are usually more expensive than whatever you put in them. I'm liking the idea of fabric stretched over canvas. What is it called when canvas is mounted on a wooden frame? I know there's a term for it.
I wanted to document the fact that I am making an effort to furnish my apartment. These are four IKEA Billy bookcases side by side. I put them together myself thankyouverymuch. It bugs me that the one on the far left has a gap between it and the next bookcase but I'll deal.
I need to get rid of the stereo you see because I replaced it with my iLuv that's set up in the first bookcase. I had to hack a hole into the back of the darn thing with a steak knife to get the cords through. I'm so handy.
I'm planning to hang something on that big expanse of wall behind the bookcases, maybe some retro fabric mounted somehow.
If you click through to the full size images, you'll see an old photo of my parents from 1969 in front of the mirror and a photo of my mom from the 50's on the first shelf of the third bookcase. Cute, huh?
That's the new shower curtain. It doesn't look great in the pictures but I really like it. I was standing in the shower, installing the dispenser and realized how much more light came through the new curtain, so I like that. I think I'm going to swap the rug with one that's either black or bright pink. The bathroom is small so it's easy to redecorate when I get bored.
The dispenser was probably the best $30 I've spent yet. It holds 16 ounces in each chamber, which is good because I just bought 64 oz bottles of my favorite shampoo and conditioner (Pureology: Hydrate) and I certainly don't have room for a gallon of anything in that bathroom! I filled the third chamber with my bottle of Philosophy "Go Go Banana" body wash. It smells like banana Laffy Taffy <3 It's nice to get the bottles up off the bathtub, much less clutter this way.
Ahhhh!
Ok so now I've decorated the bathroom twice and yet, I'm using the big boxes that my A/C units came in as a phone table in the hallway. Houston, we have a problem.
I haven't made much progress with decorating/furnishing my apartment. I bought a bunch of picture frames and a big mirror to hang in the hallway, but I have to sort through photos and have some printed before I can work on that little project.
But I did find some stuff on the Pier 1 website that I really like. I asked my mom to pick the stuff up for me since there's a store right by their house. I got one of each pillow and one of each frame. She used her Pier 1 card and got 10% off, so everything came to about $37 total. Nice, huh? :)
