After months of zero zilch nada progress made on my home due to analysis paralysis, I finally made some decisions and got to work this weekend. Everyone had awesome suggestions for my room last week, Sherry had the genius idea to use photoshop to test drive designs and I loved From the Right Bank's idea to switch the black wall and paint my fireplace a bright color... but I wasn't up for painting over black. In fact, you all had so many awesome ideas, I almost had to spend another 6 months in hibernation trying to figure it all out. But! My mind was about to explode and I had to make a move. I decided to go with my gut and laser-light-show it up. A visit to the always brilliant Sanders sealed the deal when he gave his nod of approval and pointed me to the metallic paint (!!!!) display. Sanders and I quickly agreed on pearl white and I was out the door with some fancy paint and lots and lots of tape:
I started by free-form taping the wall behind my bed, making each stripe about 1.5" wide.
I continued around the corner and onto the 3rd wall. I didn't tape the entire 3rd wall, I let the design taper off so that there would be a spot for your eye to rest. Fancy, huh?
I was actually pretty smitten with the kelly green tape (of which I used 180 yards) and was almost remiss to paint it all white, but green angles are too crazy for a bedroom and I had a plan and I was going to stick to it, dammit.
Ta-Da! Laser-Light kicks kelly green's ass! To understand how amazing and fabulous this looks in real life, please take the awesomeness of this picture and multiply by eight hundred thousand, give or take. It is seriously out of control. Do you want to see more pictures?
A close up. Don't worry, we're shopping for new lamps next. (I will be taking Camilla's advice and finding some with black drum shades)
Doesn't the dog bed just make this picture? What about the crappy bathroom door that's about to be replaced? Ok, Ok, focus on the wall... j'adore?
last one, promise:
Once Erin comes out of maternity leave, project #1 is to have her take some decent looking photos of this joint. You'd think I could have at least photoshopped myself out of the mirror. lazy lazy Karly.
This project was actually super simple despite my gigantor walls, from start to finish (including clean up) it only took about 5 hours. With all that extra time left over, I decided to tile my living room fireplace.
WHAT?! HUH?! But, Karly, you've been indecisive about tile for months!
I know, I know, but Friday night I was having cocktails in Hope's back yard when I spotted a stack of white marble 1/2 inch tile going to waste on her porch. Apparently it had been given to her roommate who never got around to doing anything with it. A few drinks in and I was ready to end my tile misery and make an offer: $3 a sheet. Done and done.
If I were to search the world over and could have my choice of tiles, would I pick this? No. But is it 800 times better than the bare fireplace I've been living with for the last year? Can I get a hellz yeah?!
Here's a close-up:
It's marble, it matches my room, and it shimmers, so I'm happy with it. Oh, and it was dirt cheap, so I'm really happy with it. I did some web sleuthing and found out that in the real world it costs $11 a sheet here, still pretty cheap.
I have visions of finding the world's most perfect tile one day and replacing this but until then I don't have to hang my head in shame when the first thing people see when they walk in my house is a bunch of junky drywall surrounding my fireplace.
So, there you have it, my weekend in a nutshell: cocktails and decorating, what more could a girl ask for?
PS. stick around this week as we have some badassical guest bloggers in store: tomorrow Andrea from House of Slappy does a fantastic (I mean really fantastic) artist roundup; Thursday, the always lovely Tula of Whorange brightens up the joint with my favorite palette; then Friday, it's lame old me again wrapping up the week. Come on back now, ya hear?