Belated beyond belief - New house post

Steven and I have lenient landlords when it comes to decorating which means that we spent Memorial Day weekend repainting the walls. It started a dirty sad white, and ended up beautiful, bright and completely ours. We're blessed, and I try to remember that every time Larry ignores our repeated messages about the broken front window.

Dirty sad living room:


Happy gray living room:


Plain, boring white wall:


New, fancy purple wall:


Your average kitchen:


New and improved SUSAN kitchen:





Sad laundry area:


New and improved (though I still need to do something about that light fixture):



The main reason we decided on the house was all the built in storage, and this fabulous bookshelf/wall:


Which leaves all our bookshelves free for decorating:



The bedrooms and study were painted right before we moved in, but I'm still hoping to get curtains made for each of the rooms by the end of the year. I've been fabric shopping for weeks, but I can't commit to buying anything. It's much too stressful. Any color/style suggestions?






This is currently my coffee table. Though I appreciate the ability to move parts of it around as needed, it cannot last forever. Plus, the corners are sharp.


My last project of the summer is the bathroom. It requires wallpaper stripping, priming, and choosing a blue. Basically, it's impossible, because nothing matches my authentically vintage, perfectly hand-me-down, so ugly it's chic shower curtain. It will me stay with me always. Thanks, Momma.



So there you have it. No mice, quiet neighbors, close to work and colored walls. Everything I sort of knew I wanted.