December Posting Meme: decorating: my new home and me

[thedeadparrot]

for zulu

I am going to say front up that I (a) looked for my new place with the explicit eye of not wanting to renovate it and (b) am terrible at decorating.

That being said, I do have decorating plans! Sort of. The big things I have done so far have been to get a few new rugs and some new art to hang on my walls. I am so terrible at this, I have only used the existing hooks in the walls to attach my stuff. Oh yeah. I am a master artiste.

I have previously posted a picture of my new rug. My second one is still unrolled, waiting for me to get off my ass and rearrange my furniture to handle it. (I was waiting for the Yuletide deadline for that one.)

One thing I'm interested in is buying art from local artists who are doing cool stuff. The area here has more than enough of them, but it's definitely kind of challenging for me to show up and look at things because I am terrible at decorating, so I don't have a good sense of where things will go. Still, it has been good to go to craft fairs and open studios, at least to get a sense of what people are doing. Hopefully I'll get better at it.

Comments

[zulu]

The rug is a definite win. I learned how to hang picture-hooks at our last place and it was only a little scary! I think the main thing with decorating--because, like you, I'm not the world's most visual-design-oriented person--is to go very very slowly, making sure you like each change before you make another one. When we moved, people were like, "Oh yeah and you should redo your whole kitchen!" and I was like, "Yessssss. In ten years or so. That will be good then."

[thedeadparrot]

Very slowly is good! Though I'm more of a 'rip the bandaid off by doing it all at once' sort of person, so I think it will be little bursts of me making terrible decisions.