Tuesday, April 15, 2008
House envy
I've been kind of obsessed with Apartment Therapy lately. I used to visit it occasionally a few years ago, but there wasn't really much for me there. These days, I have been getting so much inspiration there! Even though we're no longer in an actual apartment, we still have a small dwelling and a small budget. I've been feeling restless lately with our decor; I think it's time to shake things up a bit. So I've been looking at AT's home tours to get ideas. They're currently in a Small Cool contest, where people send in picture tours of their small apartments and people vote on whether they like the decorating and whatnot. So there are a lot of great apartments to look at right now. They also do home tours of houses, too... I wonder if I could ever get on there. It makes a nice break from getting inspiration from various TLC and HGTV shows, which eventually kind of all blend together.
Also, our house has so much IKEA stuff... I'd like to add in a few other pieces so that it doesn't look like walking into an IKEA showroom. If I'm in Dallas this weekend, I want to hit up some garage sales and a couple of architectural salvage places I've been hearing about. I'm also in the market for some new stuff for our walls. We've been living with the same framed vintage poster prints for too long now, and I'm ready for something new.
It's also time for us to get our crap together for our own garage sale. We have so much stuff stored in the garage that needs to go, and I want to weed out some old paperbacks. Victor and I both also have a ton of clothes and shoes to rehome. Once we can get the garage cleaned out, we can work on finishing it out a bit more to make it more usable. I'd eventually like to have a little fridge out there as well as a workbench or two for any silly projects I'd like to try. Plus, some improvements to the garage (like the light that my dad and I installed) can only help our resale value, right?
I've been kind of obsessed with Apartment Therapy lately. I used to visit it occasionally a few years ago, but there wasn't really much for me there. These days, I have been getting so much inspiration there! Even though we're no longer in an actual apartment, we still have a small dwelling and a small budget. I've been feeling restless lately with our decor; I think it's time to shake things up a bit. So I've been looking at AT's home tours to get ideas. They're currently in a Small Cool contest, where people send in picture tours of their small apartments and people vote on whether they like the decorating and whatnot. So there are a lot of great apartments to look at right now. They also do home tours of houses, too... I wonder if I could ever get on there. It makes a nice break from getting inspiration from various TLC and HGTV shows, which eventually kind of all blend together.
Also, our house has so much IKEA stuff... I'd like to add in a few other pieces so that it doesn't look like walking into an IKEA showroom. If I'm in Dallas this weekend, I want to hit up some garage sales and a couple of architectural salvage places I've been hearing about. I'm also in the market for some new stuff for our walls. We've been living with the same framed vintage poster prints for too long now, and I'm ready for something new.
It's also time for us to get our crap together for our own garage sale. We have so much stuff stored in the garage that needs to go, and I want to weed out some old paperbacks. Victor and I both also have a ton of clothes and shoes to rehome. Once we can get the garage cleaned out, we can work on finishing it out a bit more to make it more usable. I'd eventually like to have a little fridge out there as well as a workbench or two for any silly projects I'd like to try. Plus, some improvements to the garage (like the light that my dad and I installed) can only help our resale value, right?
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