So, I was gallantly going to promise to update every remaining day in July, to make up for my total absence during the first two thirds, but then I remembered that I’m planning to be without internet for most of next week. Whoops. But I can do my best until then!
I spent the past couple of evenings repainting my guest room (it was my bedroom up until last summer, and it was this colour up until yesterday). I’d been thinking about painting a room yellow for at least a good year, so I decided to finally just do it. The light blue in the guest room was nice, but it was actually pretty limiting, as far as changing the look and colour scheme of the room.
I’m really happy with the shade I chose — I used a swatch of fabric from the yellow curtains I have in my living room and piano room and tried to find something just a bit lighter. I had a slight panic when I started rolling the paint on (after cutting in with a brush, of course) — it suddenly looked very wrong. But I think that it was just the combination of the old and new colours. Yellow and blue, especially in pastel shades, is a combination that makes my teeth gnash. Even though I’m really happy to finally hang that Glasgow School of Art print up above, I think I might end up putting it elsewhere — blue and yellow. Shudder.
The task now is to find a cheap bed frame at the thrift store, as the old day bed was just too big and could only be put against one wall. And I have to get lots of storage containers and try to sort things out. There are so many little THINGS that need to have a better home. If I go through and pull out what I really need/use on a regular basis versus stuff I haven’t touched in over a year, I know there won’t be all that much — but my brain has a very distinct (okay, roughly accurate) map of where and in which boxes various objects are kept, even though the system is screwy.
I’m looking forward to having an actual guest in a few weeks’ time, so I’ll have to get things sorted out before then — and I’ll post picture when I do!
