In late November 2010, I ordered a custom door for my bedroom. I live in a basement apartment and pay a ridiculously all inclusive low price, so there are clearly compromises, including the Super Mario-esque pipes everywhere, the bizarre architecture, the oddness of the shower/bathtub (I think tall people would have trouble showering in it), the need for maintenance people and other fix-it people to pop in to fix something going on upstairs and the lack of a bedroom door.
The bedroom door issue wasn’t that big of a deal, until the Great Flea War of 2010 and the fact that I no longer want my cat to have access to my bedroom. The custom door arrived in early December 2010, and then just worked as a blocker, as I was waiting for a friend to help install it, who then never helped. This weekend, Raheem and I tackled the project and BAM. I now have a working bedroom door. Every time I open and close the door I get pretty excited. It’s so freaking easy. Trust me, after two and a half months of moving the door every time I wanted to get in my bedroom, this seems like a miracle.
Couple that with organizing all my writing and journals (that is only one pile of journals, to the left, that I sorted—in total I currently have 52 journals, some which weren’t exactly filled, so don’t be too impressed) and I have accomplished two large house projects recently. Which means that now I can start thinking of new projects!
And I did. I went to IKEA yesterday and bought that string of lights (the GLANSA) that I wanted and strung them around my bedroom, over the bed. I absolutely love it, BUT now I want to add more. I think some organza twisted in it (I found organza cheap online), to create a bit of a canopy would be good. And then my mind started racing.
How cool would it be to create a bit of an indoor forest in my bedroom? I already have pipes that, painted a dark brown, would emulate tree branches. Some fake leaves twisted around and strung around would create the forest canopy. I have a gigantic long wall in the bedroom that would probably look pretty awesome with a forest mural.
The inspiration is something like the Florence + The Machine video for Cosmic Love (be warned, ad on start-up). I don’t want a trillion hanging lightbulbs, but the forest + lights idea seems cool. Plus the organza + lights on her dress are the inspiration for the “canopy.”
The forest mural will probably have a Charles Vess touch to it, mostly because I love this Vess piece (yup, drawn for Sandman), called Companions to the Moon:
And I like this forest piece, too, which I found via Cool Showcase:
I realize that I’ll be doing a lot of repainting when I move, but since I’m not thinking of moving any time soon, I’ve decided that I want to make this apartment cooler than any other space I’ve ever rented. I’ve never really been compelled to make any space quite so personal, so if I go overboard, I suppose that would be why.
But, I think it would look pretty cool, personally. I’ll let you know if 1) I actually end up doing it and 2) how it looks.
Which brings me to my fantastic IKEA score of the day. I have been dying to have these LACK shelves for awhile. And yesterday I saw this on the display room floor:
Yes. Reduced from $20 to FIVE BUCKS! I HAD to have them. Of course, the color is not my top pick—it was the walnut brown color. But I decided that at 75% off, I would make it work. So I picked up two. One will go in the living room, above the couch, the other in my bedroom, above the dresser. I just have to find the studs. Which means I just have to figure out my stud finder tool thingy.
I think my house is pretty much an IKEA catalog shoot waiting to happen. Seriously. All my main pieces are IKEA.
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