Friday, April 27, 2007

It came, it came!


I got my lovely chair today! Now I need to whip the rest of the room into shape!

So what I'm going to do is find a nice coordinating fabric and get some wonderful person to sew a new cover for my thrifted footstool, and a curtain for the window.

I was going to do a valance over the window, but decided last week that maybe one pretty side panel, pulled over into a swag on the left side, would look better, since there is literally two inches of wall between the window and the corner.

Then I have to paint my thrift store table white or off-white, which I think will look much cuter and show off its shape.

THEN I have to clear all the lingering bits and pieces out of the other side of the room. I don't know why it's taking me so long to get my act together with this room re-do--I think I need longer to think things over than I ever used to before. Or maybe I'm just lazy.

The Georgia O'Keeffe poster is coming down, too--the colors are too purply-pink for this room. I'm going to cover my two big bulletin boards to make one of those French ribbon memo boards, I think.

We're finally getting some wonderful rain today, which will make the grass even longer and the trees even leafier. We're getting a little pinchy-faced about our next-door neighbors, who have weeds/grasses in their yard that are easily a foot tall now. I'm not a grass nazi by any stretch, and our grass is a little patchy-looking out front, but sheesh, take five minutes and mow the front, for heaven's sake. Lovely people, but apparently not yard-proud.

I forgot how bad new upholstered furniture STINKS. How in the world can inhaling that be good for anyone? I had the window open and the ceiling fan on till the deluge began and I had to shut it. Then I spritzed on a tiny bit of Febreeze, but I think that stuff may smell worse than the original stink. Chemicals creep me out!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

the poster looks like a giant vajayjay. :) (if you don't watch Grey's Anatomy, you probably don't know what I'm saying... but if you think back to my V word from college....)

Love the chair!!

Anonymous said...

oh-- an afterthought-- I think a roman shade made out of contrasting material/pattern would look nice on the window.

Martha said...

Lllllove the chair! I can't wait to see the table painted, too! Very nice!

And how cute are your nieces? The older one looks a bit like her Auntie!

Martha

Mimi said...

What a reading spot, I LOVE it!

Leslie said...

Lovely! And I love the ideas for the rest of the stuff. I have to admit I was hoping the G.O'K. print wasn't going to stay. Whew! ;)
Fun!
Les.