In Which I Spend Too Much Money on Home Decor

[rsadelle]

Home Decor 1
I went out and bought a second DVD shelf today. I also bought frames and mats for my new fannish photos. It seems like a lot less when you divide it out into a per picture cost.

Of course, while doing this, I realized that I have no Inara. Boo! I'll be acquiring an Inara photo, and I think nine photos will be better arrangable than eight.

Home Decor 2
I matted the Giles and Willow photos with a white and dark blue mat and put them in white frames. My walls are a creamier white. It looks okay, but it would look better on, say, a dark blue. I'm in an apartment where painting is not so much of an option (and also messy). So I have an idea and I need some advice as to whether this seems like a good idea, bad idea, whatever. The space where I'm going to put the pictures is a strip between the corner of the room and the window. So my thought is that if I bought some dark blue cloth, I could hang the cloth on the wall to give it some color and then hang the pictures over that. I think if I turned the edges of the cloth under and ran the nails through the turned down edges, then the edges would look neat without any sewing and the nails would be hidden.

Home Decor 3
I've decided to take down the Harry Potter Legos (yes, I know the official plural is Lego). I still want the action figures out, but the Legos are less like fun and more like clutter now. I'll be storing them away to see if I change my mind.

Test 1, 2, 3. Anything but that.
Could someone email me and leave a comment saying they've done so? I've sent a lot of email in the past couple of days but not gotten much other than LJ comments. It's possible that it's just that no one's emailing me, but since I had severe email problems I didn't even know about once before, I thought I'd check.

Comments

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

I have emailed!

Also, how did you manage to forget Inara?

Not sure about the fabric idea... I'll ask my mom, she's all home-decorate-y like that.

[rsadelle]

Thank you. I did get it!

I have no idea! My best guess is that there wasn't an Inara picture I really liked. But I've found some on eBay, so I just have to pick one. I was thinking nine pictures could be three groups of three, but then I thought I have this whole giant wall. Maybe I'll put Mal in the middle and put everyone else around him in a circle.

Let me know what she says. I was thinking that if it works, I could put other stripes of color on my walls.

[rsadelle]

I presented the idea to my aunt, and she suggested staples, which, she thinks, will hold the fabric and give it a straighter line.

[meacoustic.livejournal.com]

True, but I worry it will sag once you hang things on top of it.

[rsadelle]

It's not like I'm attaching anything to the cloth, just pushing nails through it to the wall.

[ruby-fruit.livejournal.com]

I just e-mailed you. :)

[rsadelle]

Thank you! I did get it.

[allegram.livejournal.com]

Um, if you remember my bedroom on floral, the white walls with pinkish ribbon and flowers (boy did I come to regret that) was actually a sheet we bought and nailed up because I hated the wallpaper. So it definitely works, but unless you are really good there's going to be some sagging in the end regardless of nails or staples. And by really good, I think I actually mean really strong (like if somebody can pull it so tight it stretches then you staple it that might do it). If it does start to sag though, you can always pull out the bottom fastenings pull it taut and refasten it. And finally I would agree that a heavy duty staple gun will work best (nailing takes so long that you're puller is likely to let it go slack), you can probably borrow one of my parents' (I think they have 2 or 3) for a weekend (if you ask nice).

Oh and: Hi lady!

[rsadelle]

Huh. I don't remember that, but I believe you!

I think my aunt was really suggesting plain old staples, not even the heavy duty kind.

Hi!