First, let me say that I dislike showing photos of my house looking disheveled and ripped apart. I realize that is part of the draw [for all of us] in reading a house blog, but it’s just that I find it somehow embarrassing as if I’m being caught picking my nose. You know? People gawk and stare…but not in that good way. At any rate, in spite of not feeling as if I have anything great to show, I also feel as if real pictures (meaning warts & all photos) of my house are overdue. So here you go.
I’ve been furiously trying to work on my guest room in time for my mother to come and visit, but the house seems to be fighting against me. It’s as if this room just doesn’t want a nice, beautiful paint job…and to be decorated. I present to you exhibit A.
The walls in this room are just all kinds of frustrating. First off, they’re plaster… underneath a layer of wallpaper… underneath two layers of paint. Sounds great, huh? However, it’s not the painted wallpaper that bothers me, as you might think. No, the wallpaper is actually the thin paper kind…so the fact that it’s been painted over isn’t that big of a deal. Besides a few seams that I’m having to cut out and sand over, it’s not that bad. It’s just that underneath this window I have a slight bit of dampness that has come in from the windowsill and it’s made the old stuff separate from the wall. Therefore I’ve been scraping and will have to spackle it, sand it smooth….etc etc. Oh, and did I mention that I’m also struggling to find the perfect shade to paint the walls? Why is choosing a paint color sometimes the hardest part of the job? For the record, I think Martha Stewart does a great job with her paint swatch program at Lowes. (And if you’ve got lots of expendable cash to throw around, I love Farrow & Ball’s paint colors.)
Did I mention that my mom arrives this Friday? Yeah….guess what is NOT getting done by then? I’ll probably end up doing as much work as I can this week after work, cleaning up the mess, putting clean sheets on the bed, and calling it a day. Not exactly how I’d like for her to spend her Thanksgiving in my guest room, but for now it’s going to have to do. On the bright side, the first time she came to visit I had no working bathroom.
Anyways…to give you an idea of what I hope for it to look like some day in the future, here’s my inspiration images ripped from the pages of various magazines:
Wish me luck as I keep plugging ahead.
N’s mom made us a little night light (?) for the kitchen out of a wine bottle from one of her favorite Cabernets. It’s not something that I would consider to be “normally” my style, but I quite like it actually. Maybe I’m just having a real thing for twinkling lights these days. Hmmm….not sure.
Angela Davidson is from Philly (Holla!), and ever since I found her on the 
Diane Koss (from Philly as well?) makes these adorable monsters. I love them so much. Fuzzy. Imaginative. Not scary at all. Here’s her 
C’mon people! Look at these NEW blocks?! They look like the coolest vintage blocks you’ve ever seen! I want my future/unborn/adopted child to have blocks this awesome. Love them. You should see the other sides that aren’t letters. Here’s a link to 
