And on a lighter note:

SA and I went to my new place to check it out, and I'm all jazzed to decorate. I want to paint, but I want to keep it light so it doesn't make the rooms look smaller. I also don't want it to look too girly. I'm really into light, sky blue right now. Here are the ideas I have for the bedroom, with white being dominant (think sky: white with light blue with accents of the other stuff).

I'm not so sure about the dark brown for the wood--I might want to get all white furniture. I dunno.


Next: Kitchen--I'm thinking a really, really light peach/tangerine tinted paint with green-apple accents. It a rebellion against the overdone yellow kitchen. However, I'm also thinking about painting the kitchen RED. Check out these:

Finally, b/c there's a big archway between living room and kitchen, I think I'll go with dark wood furniture, lots of bookshelves, a cool funky rug and a straw colored couch, with the following color theme.

Bathroom: White walls with giant bright green fern leaf stencils, perhaps accented with a dark plum.


I went to the Galleria today to look for ideas. They had many cool things--lots of really unique patterned stuff and some beautiful antique couches. (Although I wouldn't buy an antique couch because they look really uncomfortabale and couches are meant to be super-duper-uber-comfy.) I'm most certainly not going to buy one of the cool $250 pillows I saw there, rather, I'm going to take the ideas to a knock-off place and get fabric and paint and stuff and make my own. Aren't I crafty? Maybe I can sew curtains and stain shelving and paint dressers and make my own custom wine rack and a really funky shower curtain!


Eh, screw it. Maybe I'll just paint and decorate the whole thing this color: