Decorate my home

...hung clean curtains on dirty windows…yuck! well, noone is perfect. it is that i’ve changed color sheme and orange curtains really clashed with it. so i washed white curtains and hang it, who cares! i can’t wash windows in the dark, anyhow… maybe next Sat.

i have some color glassware that clashes with my china, both of them. yesterday i had the idea to group glassware of similar color together for some occasions. and now i have idea to connect disparate glassware with matcing table-cloth, candles and other decoration.

I think of this as a multistep process. I feel embarassed because I’ve seen all my girlfriends homes and they’re so beautiful and tidy. Mine looks like a dump in comparison. I’ve listed some things to be improved – change to efficient lighting – regrout the shower stall – remove paint from the bathroom door – declutter – get some hardy plants for the balcony – repair 2 cupboard doors and the bathroom rail. I am decluttering but it is long, slow and hard. Now to make those phone calls to get the repairs done.
Update 7 Nov 09 – 1 cupboard done; shelf added in laundry; shower stall resealed. Handyman to fix bathroom rail once I sand and paint it. It’s still on my dining table.

i learned decluttering is so much easier having final goal in mind, and that is decorating.
i switched my focus to my SO’s place since it is in bigger nead than mine, we started extensive reorganisation, changing functions of almost each room.
2 rooms are reorganised and almost done (his mom’s room and veranda), it’s been a month, and we spent lots of time planning new arangement (maybe several weeks) in living room before actually doing it.

now the living room is in focus: walls are painted white and i plan to decorate in black and white, combined with earthy tones. since furniture is black and white (actual creamy beige). i’m contemplating wall papers, but only partially; i have plenty ideas and practice patience.
hanging furniture is in it’s place, and hopefully soon bottom part will arrive, too. my SO wanted to finish work in adjacent small kitchen-to-be becouse of dust and everything, to finish dirty jobs before we bring in the furniture and equipment.

(it is becouse before, long time ago, we turned living room to bedroom and opened wall and installed door to kitchen that was part of another room, we closed it and made it into closet, that actually never worked since there is no heating there, so it gradually degraded into junkroom. now we are making that room into living room again, e.g. into media center, and turning the closet into kitchen again, so my SO need to drill the walls and instal sockets. Plumbing is already there from previous kitchen, hidden in the walls.)

this is all big and happy event and i spent lots of time thinking of interior design. this brings me great satisfaction. and new and even better ideas keep coming. yay!

I have an apartment that is 1100 square feet. I need help decorating. I am tired of looking at the bare walls.

Now thw walls are painted and the woos flooeing is down the place looks great! That’s the living room finished. All it needs is a few bits and bobs doing to thwe other rooms and we are done!

I’m so lazy. I dont have my friends over because it’s easier to leave my flat messy. I want to tidy up but it seems like so much work. I have to tackle this. It’s embarassing. I did call a handyman to regrout the shower stall because it was moldy. But there’s more to do, much more. Sigh.

Chilled out yesterday, but today the floor gets done!

Almost finished thw painting. Just need to finish up little bits tomorrow and on monday getting the floor done!

Wow doing the mature thing and spending the whole bank holiday decorating the flat instead of just going out like I normally would! We spent yesterday moving everything out of the living room to clean and throw away what we don’t want and today finishes that off and now we are going yto spend the afternoon painting the walls. On monday we are going yo get lamanate flooring installed.

I’m actually doing something about this… WOWOWOWO! Yes, yay me! This weekend I plan to pull everything out, spring clean, and clean the carpet… This is just the start…