Saturday, January 5, 2013

In My Room

I don't have any before photos for this post, but I'm guessing you can imagine. Perhaps you even have a similar space in your house somewhere. You know, that room/corner/basement that is stuffed full of boxes, strewn with unwanted decorations, unheated and saturated with dust?

That one.

A couple of strands of lights never made it back into the Christmas box. A rare trip to the city yielded *the perfect* fabric. And I remembered. A room can make you happy just by being in it. 



Bright colors. Whimsy. Treasures only I care about. I piled them in and sat back to soak it in. Well, after I cleaned (how fun was it to clean those blinds? Not very. But so worth it.) 


The day before the city trip I began Amish Grace and a phrase they use resonated with me: 
JOY: Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last. 


Irony in putting that up in a room all for me? Why yes, there is. I'll go meditate upon that. In my room. 

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Home makeover: Office edition

Before: 






After:



Here is the curtain fabric. It makes the green shag carpet seem purposeful instead of inherited.