Residence Revamp

Now that the weather is cooling down and the drizzle has begun, I will inevitably be spending more time at home. This has spurred me to do a mini “home revamp.” I’m big on lighting, color, atmosphere etc, which if you’ve ever been to my apartment you’re aware of this. Case in point: my huge pink wall. So, today on my lunch hour I went to Ikea with one goal in mind—a new area rug. I have hardware floors, and when I moved in, I bought a large, cheap white rug. It is now hideously dirty and adds insult upon injury when I have new people over and my apartment already looks like a junk show. A comment I received recently, “It looks like Hiroshima in here!”

Ikea did not have the large, fluffy white rug I had envisioned, so I settled for a black area rug. Since my leather couch is also black, it forced me to rethink a few things, and of course, purchase more items to incorporate a little more white and color into the room. I left today 250 bucks poorer, but with the rug, two new throw pillows for the couch (obviously four isn’t enough and six will be better), a side coffee table, curtains, a lamp for the table, some orange accents, and a Weeping Fig tree (that I’m not going to play “see how long it takes this thing to die without water” with like I did the last).

In short, I’m excited to go home and clean today and recharge my currently boring, dreary and dirty apartment. Perhaps it will inspire me to spend more quiet evenings at home…

Currently Feeling: Tired, but oh so satisfied.
Currently Thinking: That I’ll attend Burning Man Festival next year.
Currently Reading: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

The New Living Room