department of the interior: home decor

Yeah, see, we're trying to kick our old color to the curb. Our current paint is a worn-out, dirty, barn red on top of cedar shingles.

Do you have to re-paint? I love weathered natural cedar, if that's an option.

We considered it, but would prefer to cover it up with fresh paint. It would be a lot more complicated to strip the current paint off.

Oh god, sorry, of course. Thought you were replacing the shingles or something. Definitely paint.

Well, no, I mean, it's a good suggestion! Someone I was talking to said that the raw cedar look is a selling point for some, so it might pay off in the end to do it. It's just that we have a lot of other stuff on our plate, too.

hmmm, I moved from downstairs to upstairs and didn't tell this thread! the horror! we moved a year ago, and had a month before moving in to paint everything, which was awesome. On the weekend, we sanded, primed and painted our living room table from green to black to match the bookcases I linked to upthread!

painted table! we are going to buy a piece of glass to go on top, and probably put pictures between the table & glass. probably will encourage friends to leave behind ticket stubs, etc. I also have a few hundred I could stick under there 0_o
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corner of living room - there are those bookshelves!
ALSO: when painting, be SURE the grey paint you selected is not a very deceptive green because it will look so weird in your apartment if every other wall is a shade of blue! ;_; tell guests that your husband picked it (but only when out of earshot, as he warned you the grey swatch wasn't right and you said 'grey is grey')
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I also found a badass dresser on the side of the road and am using it as a sideboard in my dining room to store all the platters etc that we received as wedding presents. People like to give platters! I probably got 20 or so, many handmade and ceramic, a few plastic, tin, etc. It's crazy. Platter party!!
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I need a better solution for my bird cage. Who wants to come mount it from the ceiling? Laurel? Bueller??

oh man, weathered cedar shingles are the best thing ever. i want a cedar-shingled geodesic dome, even. xps

this side of the room is cooler

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not so sure about the picture frame on the right but I wanted to get pictures up on the wall before the photographer came to shoot the boys getting ready (as above) for our wedding :P

I was recently in a vacation spot with a lot of cedar-shingled houses and cottages and with it's combined with white batten-boards and white window and door frames, it is pretty much the cutest, freshest look going. If you can get another however-many years out of your existing shingles with just repainting, though, yeah I mean there's no rush to sell, right?

I feel like color issues depend more on the style of the rest of the house, its era, the surroundings. Can you gis for a similar building?

if I had all the money in the world: home edition

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http://offbeathome.com/2011/09/rhino-octopus-walrus-chairs

kkvgz, not sure where you live but when we were looking at houses our realtor told us that if we got cedar shake singles, we pretty much needed to strip and then restain/repaint for longevity - not sure if this is just a mn thing because our weather is balls but you might want to check into that.

next weekend i am going to finally paint our library if it goddamn kills me but i am so indecisive about color. i know that books are colorful so neutral etc but i am so goddamn sick of having a house with varying shades of off-white/eggshell/ecru all of which look the same to me so

I look forward to yr puce library

thinking of pulling the slate blue out of the loveseat that is number 4 in this picture that lives in there right now

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Hard to go wrong with exterior paint from a major manufacturer - there are no special needs (no snow-drifts, etc.) down here so I just use Sherwin-Williams A-100 or the Kelly-Moore equivalent on our jobs.

For interiors, I am a Benjamin Moore devotee after having a horrible time with cheapie stuff from Walmart as a poor student.

Why are DRUM. LAMP. SHADES. so incredibly hard to find?? Zero taper, completely straight sides. Search for "drum lampshade" and see how many of the results are in fact tapered. Stupid retailers.

Perfectly cylindrical lampshades unpopular with retailers because they can't be stacked partially overlapping each other, and thus take up too much shelf space. Manufacturers know this so they make them slightly conical or tapered.

I just channeled my inner Martha Stewart and painted the ceiling of the covered front porch sky blue! Apparently this is also historically appropriate for my era of house, but in reality I was just envied the blue-sky porch ceilings of my neighbors.

want

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6107/6354959663_370ab6c550_m.jpg

that deserves to be larger
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT
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Ohhhhh that's niiiice. Is that platform heated? It should be! Cute dog, too.

fern
apples
green alarm clock
dog

perfect

also obvs the living/lounging/eating/sleeping space
i have another pic i scanned but there is a corner missing because i used to make collages out of this book

these people look so satisfied with their lives!

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your dog bed doubles as dining room! it's the portrait of comfortable colorful sloth.

My bedroom windows, it turns out, are over 6' tall inside the frames. This means material for the window-shades I wanted to make will run me $130. Am I insane? I considered drapes, too, because IKEA et al sell them cheaply, but then I'd need 4 panels, plus rods and mounting hardware, which is also gonna add up. Plus you're limited to what they sell.

I really want this fabric:

http://tonicliving.com/items/varennayellowroll%2Ejpg

that is nice!

i have a desk problem. it keeps being covered in stuff, mostly paper stuff.

i only have a 1-bdrm apartment and my desk is in the middle of my narrow living space. i think i need some kind of wall-based shelving/filing unit. and to not be so disorganized re: papers, books, pens, electronic equipment, nail files, christmas cards, all the things.

I love that fabric, Laurel! Get it and make the shades because it's going to look far better than any drapes you can get for a comparable amount.

The lined drapes I like are almost double that. :( So I guess Tonic Living, here I come.

rrrobyn, I feel ya. That giant dresser/credenza I bought? The top is currently edge-to-edge covered with random shit. Cleaning task for tomorrow.

Shelving is always AWESOME. I <3 shelving.

Oh haha wait, I totally lied, it's not $130. A yard has three feet in it and I'm the world's biggest flake. It's only $50.

My goal is to coordinate those shades with brown bedding and these:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-81115173642111_2190_207068051

I bought two panels at IKEA the other day *for* $50, so sounds like a good deal!

ooh those crazy pillows!

i really need to up my department of the interior game

in my head this now means buying some pretty throw pillows

laurel we bought curtains and a curtain rod and mounts for our v large front window at IKEA for i think $65 total and they look really nice, i think.

I'm glad to hear that! Do we rate a photo?

robyn I don't understand throw pillows at all, I try to and I love them because they're so colorful and there are so many, like CANDY for your HOUSE, but seriously who SITS ON THEM?? Or sleeps on them. Nobody.

finnstyleis having a marimekko sale and i'm having trouble not buying everything

i already have a whole bunch of stretched marimekko fabric and really need to have stuff on my walls that is not marimekko fabric but i jusssssst cannn't stoppppp

I'm glad to hear that! Do we rate a photo?

haha sure:
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IS THAT WALLPAPER? IS THAT YOUR WALLPAPER? Oh well done.

I have probably ten throw pillows on our L-shaped couch. We lean on them! Rest our heads! Put them on our laps for coziness! Only time I've seen someone sit on them is when the dog curls up all cutely in a ball and sleeps there.

LAMP ARE YOU AT JANE?? That looks like the Jane tree. Love the walls/apartment vibe!

i got these military-animal bust images on super huge throw pillows for the bedroom (black on a sort of taupe colour)

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and also two lamps like this

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except one of the vintage shades was totally fucked bc the seller failed to properly package them at all, and now i'm having the hardest time finding replacements.

also gonna repaint the antique night tables i've had for a while, hang some more art and buy new bedding.

yeah, we just put it up last month. we also painted and installed new light fixtures and blah blah blah. pic in better light:

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xps - no, like east part of little portugal close to trinity bellwoods

I really love that paper. I couldn't put it in my place but I adore looking at it. And it's perfect with the candle sconce.