Oops, I Did It Again

Happy Friday. This is porn to me:

 

In getting the house ready to sell, I have been packing away the un-necessities and hauling boxes of things to storage. My house feels no less cluttered. But there are TWO boxes in storage now and ONE box in the upstairs closet that are packed full of blue and white china.

 

This is a disease. Even if I have no room for it, if it is a great piece, it must come home with me. Or come home to me. The box upstairs is actually an unpacked box from when we moved into the house 2.75 years ago. There was too much of it to put out. Even now, with everything unnecessary put away, there is still one piece of it on every flat surface but two. With all of it packed away, it may be the ONLY thing on that flat surface. Or it may do things like keep this lady right here company:

 

When I joined Pinterest, a female bust wearing necklaces was one of the first things I pinned. I thought it would be a great element to add femininity to "my side" of the bed. I never stopped searching, online and in stores, for a bust that was the right size and not too mythological. Also, no boobies. Last week, I found her in an online bargain basement, down $57 from the original price. She's a cheep floozy at $22, but she's all mine, wearing harlot-red pearls, a gold chain with several medallions, and my grandmother's rosary. Her name is Saint Rita of Cascia, the Patron Saint of the Impossible, and she feels pretty.

I'm signing listing papers on the house this weekend, but so much time has passed since I posted this design board for my bedroom that I upped and fell in love with new things.

 

 

Danby Bed / Threshold Duvet in Coral / Schumacher HotHouse Flowers / Duralee Dalesford Denim / Coral lamp / IKEA Ektorp Jennylund / Cube storage ottoman / "Gracie Was A Natural-Born Leader" art print / "Goldfinch" art print / Dark-stained chest / Safari Rug 

This has a little more flair than what we had before. I saw that comforter from the Threshold line at Target and bought it immediately. If I decide not to go with the coral, I can return it. The navy and coral color combo is big in interiors, and in my heart and soul. The original concept of the turquoise and linen feels very soothing, and this feel very sassafras. I have been listening to a lot of Barry Manilow lately, and I feel like he would pick this one for the modern Copacabana.

 

Bedroom Two retains the storage cube, the coral lamp, the bow front chest and the white bed. All but the storage cube are already owned. I will have to stain the bow front if I decide to go with this look. This also leaves a bedside table to be sorted out. I have many options, and painting one navy is what I am leaning toward, but there are three or four pieces I could pull in, depending on what I need.

 

The Duralee denim is a very large print, and because of the ikat, it would be a perfect coordinating contrast to the coral chambray bedding. We remember that I am obsessed with Schumacher's $1M (practically) Hot House Flowers fabric, and I may need her to come live in the form of an $84 throw pillow that no one but me can touch in my bedroom and not my living room. She's shacking up with me somewhere, rest assured.

Also, can we all support the necessity of a big-ass monogram on a bed?

From here.

I want a pelt rug. I do not support the skinning of animals for aesthetic purposes, so I would like a faux zebra pelt rug. Brown, not black. I suspect this may be like when I wanted one of those resin animal heads for my house, and my Decorating-Her-Ass-Off aunt told me no, to be careful because my roots were showing. (I'm totally putting one of those in the boys' room, FA!) But I really want a pelt rug, tossed haphazardly and effortlessly under the foot of my bed. My gut-check friend, who puts a little eclectic in her traditional rooms, says the pelt is a "go!" on this design board.

I love Jamie Meares, a designer and shop owner. She is traditional (less than me), eclectic (more than me) and adventurous (none of me), but her rooms always look lived-in and thought through and chaotic, like two of any of her things would never go together, but when  you put ALL of it together, it's a symphonic interior. This is one of my favorites, which is her living room, and without thinking about it, this bedroom design board is totally an homage to the genius that is Jamie Meares.

From here.

Fingers crossed my house photographs well (will share) and sells quickly at a price that allows me to smoothly transition to our next yet-to-be-discovered home. I would not mind something that was a little less "me," so that I could invest my time and talent into making it so. Also because my backup hobby if I have no dwelling to spruce is to teach myself to embroider. You can only have so much framed embroidery hung in your home before you become a statistic.