A quick sneak peak at what all the fuss was about! We got our floors refinished…..there may even be furniture upstairs now…..wowee!
Ten Days!
A bunch of stuff needs to be blogged, but first let me just say we’re only ten days away! In ten days the floors will be finished. They’re the last major piece of our apartment renovation and I can’t wait! We’ve already painted, and had drywall hung in the panty and office. The entire apartment is covered in a layer of protective dust and nothing can be put away because there’s no place to put it….but in ten days it’ll all be better. I love having an end in sight- and countdowns!!!!
am i an adult already?
When I got my first apartment, my interior design preferences were limited. My style could have been described as:- bold
- graphic
- youthful
- girly
Okay, a more accurate description would be black, white and pink all over!
Now, whenever we start talking home-style I find myself using a whole different vocabulary. Like Gordon Ramsay saying fresh, or vibrant, I continually find myself going back to the same few words:
- layered
- collected
- textural
Things like this:
A far cry from my “four year old gets to pick her colors” design aesthetic.
Other clues that I am not just “getting older,” but may have officially arrived at “old”
- I threw out my back the other day
- My gray hairs are no longer a cute little spray across the bangs- they’re taking over! (As Anthony enjoys pointing out)
- I have actually changed shoes based on their practicality and not just their appearance. (yikes!)
color confusion
We’re continuing on with prep work in our apartment, all the while accumulating more and more paint swatches! Yes, we still haven’t picked a color. It’s nice to know we’re not the only ones being stumped by this, though. There’s an interesting blurb on color blindness over at apartment therapy.
I think what we’re dealing with is more like color stubborness. Anthony likes his picks and I like mine and we can’t find any overlap between the two. I picked up a sample of another one of my picks tonight. I’ll see if I can win him over with a painted swatch instead of just a paint chip taped to the wall.
Also, here’s a fun little color game if you’ve got some time to kill….(when you should be picking paint colors)
Isn’t she lovely?!
Anthony surprised me with this lovely lady for our one year house anniversary. 
She’s an adjustable mid century dress form! She’ll going to live in the closet room once it’s ready. This is a little added motivation to get the upstairs finished already…I don’t want her to be homeless.
I was genuinely surprised- I like to give him a hard time about what a bad liar he is….and he totally got me. He told me he was going out to his dad’s and instead drove over an hour to pick this gal up.
I haven’t named her yet, but I am open to suggestions!
Tomorrow is our one year anniversary of being in the house! It’s also snowy and slippery outside so we celebrated by ordering some sushi, and doing some work on the house. We’re plodding along on our progress chart- I’ll explain the whole ‘punked out’ part this weekend. I’ll also share my very sweet anniversary present that Anthony picked up for me :0)
Added the gray along the top on Saturday. The color is elephant skin by Behr, but in Benjamin Moore paint. I really like it, but I think it could have been just a touch lighter. I still love the combo of pink and gray though! This was my first time not taping off, and I think it was quicker. It’s so hard to tape off plaster walls anyway. There are no straight lines in a house of this age, so free-handing it seemed to give a better result in addition to saving some time. I got about half of the interior closet painted today, but had to stop because there’s no light in there and it was pretty overcast. It should be done within the next few days.
resolution redux part deux
It’s time to re-hash the remaining two resolutions! I’ll start with “keep it uncluttered.”
- S- Specifically we will only bring things into the house if they have a function and a home
- M- This will be measured by making sure that each item that comes in will either have to fill a need or replace an existing item.
- A- This is attainable despite all my hoarder tendencies
- R- This is relevant because we did a pretty dramatic de-cluttering last year before we moved, and we don’t want to build up a new collection of odds and ends
- T- The timeline for this is ongoing and thought of each time
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Next up is our resolve to be better bloggers.
- S- Specifically, we will post more detailed descriptions of our projects including more pictures and fewer links to other sites AND since someone (named Anthony) enabled the html on our tumblr, I’m attempting to use these little guys » to make stuff look like stuff.
- M- We will post at least four times a week
- A - This is pushing the comfort boundary for me- that really seems like a lot of content, but when I look at how much stuff we missed from last year it really makes me want to be more thorough. So even though the details of this goal are getting a little lofty, I think they’re still attainable given our motivation.
- R- This is relevant for nostalgic reasons, (as in we’d love to show this blog to our families and friends long after the house isn’t in utter shambles) and it’s a great way to see when we did certain things just from a maintenance/upkeep standpoint
- T- Staying prompt is important to the accuracy of our story. When we recap things after the fact things always mellow out from the original intensity, so posting more original content more frequently is going to give us a better picture of our progress.
Now that we’ve got our resolutions straight, it’s time to, uhhhh, you know, do them!
AND one last new year’s note is that I’m changing my first resolution, again. For the measurable part, instead of setting myself to three good shots per day, I’m going with ten good shots a week. It’s still measurable, but definitely more attainable for me.
This was before resolution number one was written, but the idea still holds- more pictures!
