Now this is a good news bad news thing. Good news, it looks way better in the picture than it does in person! Bad news, it looks way better in the picture than it does in person!
Lets splain. I do everything at the same time, or nothing at all. Example. Didn't date for 19 years. At all. What so ever. Met, Drew. "Dated" (long distance, emails, skype dates while he was deployed with no official relationship status), dated in person: 3 hours, got engaged, 2 months later moved, 1 month later married. BAM. Thats how I get things done.
And that is how things end up like this. Messy. (Not our marriage, our marriage is awesome! I found the only guy in the world who can handle me for long periods of time, can make me laugh even when I'm super grumpy, shares my appreciation for the ninja turtles, and loves egg salad sandwiches. eHarmony can't give you that kind of chemistry!)
So what happened hear is kitchen table (bottom left corner). Shortly after moving in (like an hour) mover lady knocked over one of my scented wall things and I didn't notice til the next day. Finish on the table was ruined in a few ugly blobs. We still blame me for this and I'm okay with it. in the old house I bought a runner to cover it, in this house the runner isn't good enough so I grab a bucket of white paint and paint the top of the table. I don't like it. Haven't finished yet, either painting it black and adding a few coats of poly or getting rid of it. Can't decide, need to decide on colors for the rest of the room first. Also Drew kindly sanded down the chairs a bit for me so I could paint them, so I have super smooth chairs that look awful because th finish is gone, and a table that doesn't look good.
Giant blue thing. Started like this.
Ugly. So I painted it. Blue. Took it outside and happily doused it in paint while getting a sunburn. I decided to start this project at 2 in the afternoon. It was 96 degrees out and according to the weather 'felt like 102'. I ran back and forth a lot. Unfortunately we do not have a garage we can do this in. As I continue to paint, and am about to put on a coat of poly.... here come rainclouds. We hadn't had rain for about 2... 2 and a half weeks. Grabbed Drew and we ran it back inside and put it on trash bags in the middle of our kitchen floor so it wouldn't get ruined. I would put the poly on inside to just get it done and deal with the suffocation, but my fur babies would totally rub against it, ruin it, and their fur.
Since then... as of some sort of miracle... we have not had a SINGLE day where it hasn't been predicted not to rain. Good news! Thursday looks like my day! Then I just have to buy new drawer pulls!
Now addressing, giant cardboard boxes (yes, there are 2... its Wheres Waldo! Can you find them both?) Couch (grey couch, who has its back facing us) just got here from O.co the other day (yeaaa $2.95 shipping!) and I'm in loooove. We just set it up and its awesome. Of course, our trash/recycle day was yesterday, and my husband does the breaking down of boxes, because he came home one day right before our real wedding and he saw me breaking down boxes of wedding gifts with an old dull kitchen knife and I almost sliced my wrist open. Well, he didn't break down these boxes... and now he will say that they won't pick it up until Monday so he will break them down on Sunday. I disagree. This needs to get done now...so we don't look so trashy.
Small ugly carpet. $20 at Walmart. It was brown, on sale, and it helps muffle some of the sound. Giant golden fluffy retriever has already eaten a corner. Good thing I didn't get that awesome West Elm rug first!
Very masculine leather couch in front of the windows. Is on its way out. Husbands couch from before we were married, super comfy... except for the bottomless pit corner where his old dog ate through the leather and a lot of the stuffing, then yellow fluffy dog helped the process and ripped out more stuffing when he was a baby. So super comfy, but destroyed. Also much too masculine for what I want in the main room... and its too big to fit down the hall into the man-cave as it barely fit in our front door.
Ugly red curtains on tension rods. Well, those windows behind them are 24'' wide, we will have to attach blinds to the top because they don't have sides unless I can find an 84'' blind... we have 3 of those windows, 84'' blinds are approx $350 per window... $350 * 3 = WAAAAY TOO MUCH MONEY ($1050 before tax) though if we get them at Lowes I think we can get the auto 10% discount on custom blinds and 10% military discount. Which should bring it to $850.50... but thats only if we get both discounts and then add tax. Still too expensive. So we're trying to figure out how to make 27'' blinds work (they sort of will?) and then add a non-obtrusive curtain rod and find pannels that I like. Red curtains are up there only because you can see in our front windows to our bedroom at night and we don't like that, there is a glare on the tv without them because its super sunny, tension rods are only $5 at target and I already have had those red curtains for about 10 years, and Husband likes to live in a cave.
Things you can see in the room? Giant dog fur dust bunnies that could eat small children (even though I groomed the dogs outside 2 days ago and vacuumed yesterday), the fact that my sink is full of dishes because I made popcorn last night after running the dishwasher and didn't feel like emptying it (stove top popcorn is the best), my pretty white table (from my first post) with all of Husband's work hats (because apparently thats what its for... now that I made it pretty), and the large paint sample we painted on the wall. But that last part is good, because now I don't think it's going to work!
Phew! That took a while. Well, I'm still planning different ideas for the room. I think we're leaning towards green and blue accents but I want to keep the room bright! I found all this black furniture I love, I just wish it came in white. It seems silly to buy $80 end tables just to paint them.
I'll be posting some ideas up soon and I could really use some options and advice, so please check back!!
