Having regretfully decided that painting the ceiling in my living room to look like this* is probably not an option because (a) I am a talentless hack and (b) I can't afford the gold leaf, I am back to planning slightly less exotic things for my apartment.
On Saturday after taking Casper to the farmers' market in Caulfield (where he sat looking super-cute in front of the bacon stall until the stall holder gave him bacon, and where we saw two other pugs - I swear pugs can tell other pugs are like them, they get twice as excited by a pug as by any other dog) and dutifully visiting my grandmother, I put together my new Billy bookshelf and then put all my DVDs in it, in alphabetical order (I lead an exciting life, let me tell you). So now one small corner of the living room looks... neatish. Then, in a moment of enthusiasm, I (a) emailed my PU#2 to aks him if he had the electrician's phone number handy (I bought a new light for the hall, oh, approx two years ago, it's sitting in the spare "bedroom", along with the towel rail for the bathroom, about a million bags of fabric scraps, wool, etc, and all the pictures we still haven't got around to hanging up. Hey, we've only been living here two years) and (b) aksed everyone I know on facebook whether anyone knows where I can get doorknobs, and quite surprisingly, someone turns out to be able to help.
See, social networking = useful for more than just bragging about my uni marks/Bejeweled Blitz high score.
Anyhoo, I am now extra inspired and looking at paint on the Porters Paints website. I am totally going to paint the doors upstairs silver, and the corridor purple (and by paint, I mean "call the handyman") and it will look shiny. Although not quite as shiny as the hall of mirrors.
*This being the ceiling in the hall of mirrors at Versailles, where I took the photo.
0 comments:
Post a Comment