#want a room with green walls...

[milkweedman]

Me (incredibly photosensitive of late): surely finally remembering to take a polaroid of one of my houseplants during the daytime won't take more than a minute or two and won't cause any problems for my eyes which are already behaving very poorly today

Me after spending 20 minutes trying to get an angle that I can actually take a picture from, having been beaming light directly into one eye this entire time: oh...

[tj-crochets]

I finally got around to washing my rainbow triangle quilt and putting it on my bed!

Not pictured: under this rainbow quilt is another, different rainbow quilt lol

[mumintroll]

going to ask if i can repaint my room for my birthday lol im scareddd i think im going to get berated bc i got to choose what colour i wanted it painted when we moved here 2.5 years ago but ive hated it ever since i moved in ive regretted it from the very start... if i am going to be living in this room for the whole summer i at least want it to be a colour that doesnt depress me

[strongermonster]

i'm in the middle of painting my bedroom, which is going Eh bc i want a very specific colour, but the lightbulb colour + basement darkness has made this an annoying trial and error in paint matching. however, i discovered only now in my life that plain ol' black + regular old yellow makes green.

i didn't know that??? i feel like... i shoudl've known that. was i not taught this when i was 8 or something?? it's making me feel 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ that i didn't know? it makes such a good green too

i hate this bc i feel like it was something that—now that i'm looking at it swatched out—i'm like "duh yeah, that's obvious, you knew that." but i just spent 4 days in a paint-fume-fuelled mania mixing greens, yellows, blues, reds, coppers, whites, blacks, etc to find a Perfect Green, and she was there in 2 colours all along...

[kimjunnoodle]

the only thing good to come out of 2020 was my love of hastily made shitpost-esque edits i would make of myself to have enrichment

[catboydan]

sorry but they're not gonna convince me that's Phil's room. It's so empty and devoid of personality. It looks like a guest room to me.

Yep I agree! I think it’s just a guest room that he’s using because he can’t use the usual amazingphil space rn (presumably because of builder stuff)

[heartyearning]

what colour should i paint my new bedroom knowing that technically im only allowed to do pastels but pastels are ugly

[aliennooboo]

I have never in my life been this obsessed with different shades of green before 😳💚

[gaycousinlarry]

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[elizabethplaid]

At 6am, I gathered the courage to check out my room.

The chimney really is gone. (The bricks are on the front lawn now!) I wish I could've moved my stuff. Though he did cover things with a tarp, my bed was definitely dusty.

I napped in the hospital bed (in the living room), and I slept better than I expected, considering how anxious I was.

Old pictures of the "before" are below the cut:

The original "closet" was the width and depth of a bookcase. People didn't have a lot of fancy clothes back in the day, so they got along fine with hangers on hooks, rather than a proper closet rod. Right next to the closet is the old chimney (eg not hooked up to the current boiler). It made for a funky bump-out in the room, which only got worse when dad built the bigger closet.

Have I mentioned my green wall paint is called "Tinker Bell"? I love this color. It looks blue-toned with the flash and painted floor, but it looks a lot warmer in daylight.

Below my room is the living room. It was originally divided into 2 rooms, but we tore down the wall in 2009. This pic was taken right before we moved in, in 2005, so the bookshelf hadn't been painted yet. That bookshelf space corresponds to the tiny-closet upstairs.

The next pic is from 2009, after we had redone the living room. The dividing wall is gone; the shelves are painted white; the walls became that dusty blue that's used throughout the house. Just a single picture hanging on the chimney section of the wall. ------

So yeah, both rooms will get bookshelves in that space. It means we don't have to mess with the wood trim too much. And we do have some leftover Tinker Bell paint. The insides of the shelves will be painted white, like the living room shelves. The shelf dimensions are large enough that I could have my 1-4 scale dolls standing up. I'll probably stash stuffed animals up there, maybe with larger art books near the bottom.

Not sure if I'll get a wood-board ceiling or just white, in the bookcase. It looks nice in the closet, so it'd be nice if we could match it.

[conchobarbarian]

when we moved into our current apartment, the current residents left two loveseats & a recliner, which was convenient because they're p good quality & it saved us having to buy living room furniture right away, but also they're all beige and the carpet is beige and the walls are white and our ikea bookshelves are white and the blinds are white and this week my brain has chosen to flail and thrash in protest at the lack of color in our living room, but guess what, brain!! we just got a puppy & keep spending money on her, so we don't get to redecorate the entire living room right now! you'll just have to live with it!!!!!

[ringneckedpheasant]

things I desperately want but cannot afford/don’t have room for:

aforementioned drafting table & desk chair

canopy bed, ideally a four-poster

piano

floor-to-ceiling bookshelf

greenhouse/catio area

worm compost bin

heavy velvet curtains

new carpet :(

[whentherewerebicycles]

*eye twitch* I am swatching one… more… green. the farthest left is the current wall color, second from left is that lighter sage that’s currently the front runner, and the farthest right is the last one I’m swatching today before I make a decision. the others are just in there for reference lol. I really like the sage but it’s also reading pretty grey in certain lights and I’m wondering if a slightly more saturated green will make my heart happier/hold its hue better.

[imwritesometimes]

help! I can see the scenes so clearly and with frightening detail in my mind's eye but I cannot make myself actually write

[pearpng]

i love going to b&q and picking up as many paint sample cards as possible with dumb ass names and also getting the tiny little paint pots to paint a little row of squares on my wall