I love moving. The act of arranging furniture, organizing my belongings and decorating bring me an invigorating sense of renewal. Like I can start over new. I can shed my compulsion to watch movies late at night and read more instead. Yes, I will cook more, now that I have a neat and organized kitchen. These mini-resolutions never really end up holding, but I still love that feeling of purity and good intentions that come with starting a new life.
I most likely also have a good opinion of moving because I have relative little experience (and personal things) to cause me to become disillusioned with it yet. So as I prepare to move to Denver in the next 3 weeks, I've done lots of dreaming and fantasizing for my new bachelorette pad. Most of which will never happen because I have perhaps $27 to my name, but it doesn't hurt to dream and practice aesthetic imagination!
I recently read an article in the WSJ about the virtue of blankets & coverlets for a clean and crisp bed look vs. the no-longer-vogue look of rumpled down comforters & duvets. After you read this, you too may find yourself on the side of the more simple and crisp look of blankets & coverlets.
Also, I've always pictured (no pun intended) a theme of art in my entertaining or living room areas that is strictly black & white or sepia photographs of some of my favorite places in Europe. I most definitely don't consider myself a professional photographer at all, but some pieces by my more artistic friends, Bekah and Kate, which have always stuck in my mind as some of the most beautiful photograph series I've seen. This isn't their work, but it looks something similar to this or this. They're images that evoke what I hold most dear in my heart.
I love the color gray, don't you? I love it most when it's a deep charcoal or slate color. Kinda like this. There's a part in Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring that discusses the vast range of undertones of a wide range of colors you can pick up in something we often take for granted. Colors of yellow, orange, or purple are in the white clouds that float by us on a cheery day. Likewise, I love how undertones of red, purple, orange, yellow or blue can become fabulous accent colors to a gray wall because they exist deep within that gray to begin with. I also love gray because I'm not really the girly-girl type to have a pink or floral shabby-chic look, and, I would hate to impress the gaudiness of it all on my future husband. I therefore find the happy medium in masculine colors such as gray which I can accent with cheery feminine touches like red pillows, a vase here or a throw there. I always picture something like this.
Other decorating dreams include a wall of prints, photos & art (I mean floor to ceiling), arranging my books in a decorative Pottery Barn/Banana Republic display sort of way, a closet organized to perfection (eventually I would LOVE to have one like this but that probs would never happen), and the list could go on and on. My inspiration? Pottery Barn, Domino Magazine, some Anthro, but mostly just stuff that reflects the many facets of my personality. Country meets Modern meets Nerd meets World Traveler meets... um, yeah.
As for now, my finances and inability to plan themed interior decorating will most likely only allow my apartment to look like a hodge-podge of college dorm room, hand-me-downs, and random cute things. I'll be sure to post pictures after it all happens, but I'm sure it'll end up resembling something similar to this. Dear God, I hope not...
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