Coming Attractions

While this directors chair is not the direction I am headed with my office re-do, I am in the midst of changing things.  All the way down to the concrete floor!

So stay tuned here while I make this happen.  Later this week - all the before pictures.

Choosing Paint colors

While I certainly wish that I had more opportunities to do decorating - I mean, who doesn't? - I am often faced with a delimna that involves paint colors.  As a decorator, there are some rules to follow, but do I really need to follow rules?

I love my pumpkin wall with the burnished gold highlights - but is it for everyone?  Do you need to be subtle with a bold fabric piece or can you just go for it....

I like to decorate rooms that have a view to each other in a complementry style and have all the wall colors tie together.  For example, blues with yellows with red as an accent color will enable you to use all three of those colors on walls of adjecent rooms.....

Right now I am working on my own living room, in addition to a clients 750sq ft apartment.  The apartment has high ceilings - a great asset - and well, my living room does not.  So it makes color decisions different....I can take advantage of the height in my clients apartment and utilize a subtle color on the wall but in my own living room I have to consider the kitchen and dining room colors - which I am not changing.

So stay tuned as I work through these issues and try to make both of my decorating projects shine. 

Up the Hill.....

It's one of those days. 

One of those days when you feel like you have a huge hill to climb, no climbing shoes and no rope to tether you.  Yet you know that you have to keep climbing or the fall backwards will be more painful than you'd like.

There is just so much on the list and only this much time to get it done.  Yet, how much of how I feel is internal?  Who is really pushing me?  Anyone?

There have been so many changes in my life recently that I still feel unadjusted and out of sorts.  I have lost my "ME" time.  You know, that time between work and dinner that was just for ME?  That time that no one was in the house and I could just wind down, or watch tv, or sort mail or whatever?  Whithout that time, I feel different...less me.

So how do I get back? There are only so many ways to tell someone that you need "me" time without hurting their feelings or making them feel rejected.  It's hard to explain something without assigning blame...yet, really the blame is my own.  I am not speaking up, I am not being assertive and I am letting things slip because of that.

So, next step?  Making the lists, checking them twice and tackling them.  Without the guilt and using the climbing shoes available to me.