Home Decorating 101

Well, my decorating spree continued last night as I revisited Pottery Barn and Hirshfield's. I had my friend Mindy (no, not that Mindy, the other one, from school... with the blog... no, I mean the blond one... no the other blond one, from North Dakota... no, she's cute and oh fuck off) come over to help me go over some color combinations because apparently when I try and find the color I want it ends up looking like French's Mustard when it's on my wall. Besides not wanting a color scheme that asks "do you want fries with that,"* I've noticed that if I want to use yellow I have to go a lot lighter or a lot darker because a neutral yellow doesn't seem to offer any contrast to my couch or most of the wood.

Anyway, the plan is slowly coming together. I've got a quart of a color called Montgomery White, which is not really a white or even really an off-white so I don't know how it got its name. It's a little hard to describe (somewhere between cream and tan?), so I'll upload a scan of the swatch later. I also got a sample container of Audubon Russet for my bathroom, which is currently a sky blue which looks nice but doesn't really match my (non-adjacent) bedroom. Anyway, I hope to get some of this paint slapped on this week so I'll let you know what it looks like once it's up.

Anyway my redecorating plans have changed somewhat. Besides moving some of the furniture around, the plan now is to get a dining room table and chairs and, to make up for the lost space, replace my TV stand** and tube TV with a wall mounted flat screen and a low book shelf. One other change that has to happen soon is my bed spread and duvet, which are light and dark blue respectfully and don't match my bedroom walls either. Plus, my cover sheet got caught on something in the washing machine and now has a rip down the center about a foot and a half long.

Of course, there are a lot of other things to do but those are the major ones. Besides picking up the paint, we also stopped at Pottery Barn and I exchanged the alarm clock I bought a week ago for one that actually works. Plus, after getting the Mindy seal of approval, I bought the dried artichokes I had my eye on last week. I still need a bowl to put them in, but with Pottery Barn prices I figured I would shop around.

*There is a similar story involving the paint in my bedroom, which I'll tell you another time
**By TV stand I mean an old desk. However, I was planning on replacing it with an actually TV stand but not any more.