Living & Dining

May 23rd, 2008

Got around to hanging art and curtains.
This will be the house of scary portraits and designer knock offs.

The khaki curtains are some leftovers from our apartment in Long Beach. They are of course from Ikea, I kind of hate them.

I will eventually put up an under layer of sheers and remove those AWFUL nasty blinds. Another day and another dollar. Also, I’d like to put a bigger and bluer rug under the table. I got my FLOR samples in the mail and I’m waffling on color and texture (and of course price).

The options:

Fedora – Dusty Turquoise ($6.99)
Toy Poodle – Toto Teal (13.99)

I think Fedora wins, just by being so much cheaper. Its OK looking and will only cost about $160 to do the dining room (which is a weird size – very square). Plus we will eat and spill on it and I won’t be so attached….I do love that chartreuse color though.

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Laundry room of doom

May 23rd, 2008

The second bathroom.
That little sore spot on the roof of my mouth that won’t heal because I can’t stop tonguing it.

Theres a toilet and a stand-up shower, oh and the most ghetto laundry hook-ups ever. The washer drains into the utility sink and the dryer – it vents out a hole cut in the nailed shut door. The plastic tiles are falling off the walls, and the whole thing looks like something out of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Luckily there is a pocket door that shuts the whole thing off from the kitchen.

This will be my BIG BIG BIG project. Reworking the space, redoing the plumbing and electric – this one will take awhile.

But at least the dryer is not on the back porch anymore.

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Thrifty!

May 23rd, 2008

Someone stop me, because I can’t stop myself.

Salvation Army – $9.99. It needs a new shade, and its yellow. I can’t resist a yellow lamp.
I kind of regret getting this lamp.

Salvation Army – $3.98 and $5 respectively. What the hell is up with the weird pricing at the SA? It never makes much sense to me, and their “boutique” what a complete joke, overpriced and full of horrible stuff. I want to give the boutique manager shaken baby syndrome.

But…I’ll never stop going.

Hospice Thrift represent! $5 for the velvet and $1 for the Lucite chair. HOOOLLLA. ONLY one dollar – the back is cracked but it was only a dollar. I’m totally going to be a crazy hoarder.

Also Hospice Thrift. I shelled out $10. More than I would have liked to, but the story of the “crazy lonely old lady who obsessively painted portraits of her pet bird” got me. Be free little bird.

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