My Home

Here is where it all began – my home! I know it is not much, but it is mine and for the most part I did it on my own (with a lot of help from a very calm cousin who is an attorney and his awesome para-legal).

Per Zillow, I purchased the condo on June 4, 2008. And what a process it was! In some ways I feel like I have owned my little space for years and at other times I feel like I have lived here only a few short weeks (and if you looked around right now, it looks like I just moved in it is such a mess).

It is amazing what I have done in just 6 months (especially since I have lost 3 of them to being crazy at work) but there is still so much more to do. On my list:

1. A lighting fixture for the living room (how can I have brass and yellow when my living room is light and airy with silver and white accents on my cool blue walls?)
   While I am changing my lighting fixture in the living room, I might as well change the kitchen one too. The current one is sad and boring and from the way it looked when I bought the condo, it is also a ladybug catcher. A beautiful chandelier would be so lovely
   Convincing Gavin that it is an awesome idea to repaint my bedroom a wonderful shade of kelly green to go with my navy and white comforter. Don’t get me wrong, I love the calming effect that my grey walls have, and it is such a pretty grey, but the kelly would just be such a wonderful and preppy pop to my otherwise subdued color scheme. Maybe I will just get a green chest or something


2. My entryway needs some work. I have a great lighting fixture that just needs to go up along with some light cream paint on the walls. If my entryway wasn’t so low and dark, I would love to paint it an almost navy blue, but it is dark, and the ceilings are low, so I will go with off white. I also need a console table to go below my amazing paris picture that Lindsay gave me


3. My spare room – in general. It is a disaster. I have an unassembled mass of daybed in the middle of the room with garbage strewn about. If I ever have a weekend off, that is what I am attacking. And while it is already a sage green, if I don’t paint my bedroom Kelly or my entryway almost navy, I would love to paint my spare room one of those colors. It’s just a little unexpected.


4. The downstairs bathroom needs something done to it, anything done to it. It is an absolutely blank canvas.


5. The upstairs bathroom needs new floors. I don’t know why the previous owner would ever have picked linoleum that always looks like it is dirty even after I’ve spent ½ hour on my knees scrubbing, but they did. I would love a black and white tile, and while I’m at it, I’d love white subway tiles along the walls. That is most likely not happening though. A girl can dream!


6. Since the pantry space is lacking in my kitchen, I’d love a white jelly cabinet and since I have enough white paint leftover from my other projects to paint my entire condo complex, I can get one in any color
   
   Wow, my list is daunting and this is what I came up with in just a few minutes.