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It occurred to me, while I was in the throes of a major hunger-induced ADHD Moment at 10:45 wherein I was trying to, at the same time, (a) figure out what to eat, (b) buy curtains for the bedroom, (c) figure out where to get a paint chip of the wall color for the bedroom, and (d) decide if it was worth waiting 15 minutes to just eat lunch instead, that I now work from home and if I was done with the immediate workload, I could just...take the afternoon off and go buy curtains. MIND. BLOWN.

So things got sorted out.

myrialux pulled the paint can in question out of the garage and dipped a popsicle stick in it to make a paint chip for me (it's 10 years old; I'd be surprised if Home Despot had that particular color of chip), then after I offered to go pick up lunch looked at me and decided I shouldn't be driving in that state so we went out to Raising Cane's and ate an early lunch in the car while listening to the current audiobook (Garth Nix's Sabriel, read by Tim Curry), and reassured me that yes, I could just go out and buy curtains. So once a few more tweaks on this cover are approved by the author.. it's curtains for me!

Re: the curtains--I have hated the way our main bedroom is set up ever since we moved into this house, and never managed to figure out how to arrange it, so I ended up finding an interior designer on Fiverr, sent them the measurements, some photos, and the constraints* I had, and she sent me back a set of 4 renders that make the room look CALM and RELAXING and NOT LIKE A COLLEGE DORM so I am over the moon with it and now have something to more-or-less aim for in arrangement, decor, etc.

*The biggest constraint was our sound-dampening curtains, which need to stay because of the very busy road behind our house that occasionally hosts illegal drag racing at night, but I said I was fine with covering them up with other curtains. Second biggest constraint was the couch, which is mostly being stored in this bedroom until we move on the off chance that we have a place for it in whatever new house we move into. Yes, I know, not really the best thing but I don't want to sell it or toss it, and it will provide a nice place to sit and read, provided we stop piling random stuff on top of it (hah).

edit: Also, rhythmic gymnastics with your dog is a thing, and you should watch this YouTube video of a woman and her border collie (I think?) competing. Energetic part starts about 2 minutes in.

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Yay the curtains!

(The renders via Fiverr are a fascinating thing - I wouldn't have thought about that as an option)

I watch enough home/lifestyle YouTube that it throws random interior design stuff at me and one, a few months back, was someone doing the formulaic thing of "I paid 3 designers $10, $100 and $1000 for designs!" (or whatever the amounts were...100/250/500 mostlike). They used Fiverr, so it got put on my radar for that.

This Imgur album has both the renders and the photos/floorplan I sent. The first 4 are the lovely renders of the ideal room, and the others are the messy reality. :D But you can see the couch, the bedframe, and the bedding (in the cat-free pictures) that we've recently splurged on that I told her we were keeping.

I didn't mention the rocking chair (stuff holder), but it'll stay in the bedroom until I can get the seat fixed--right now it can't support the weight of anything (it's a leather circle fixed into the seat with brads that my dad put in 40-some-odd years ago) so I daren't put it into the living room. I will also not decorate with word art, but will find some graphic B&W prints we like for the space over the couch, and make greyscale prints of photos we've taken while traveling for the ones over the bed.

My haul today consists of curtains, curtain rods, pillows for the couch that DO NOT have letters on them, a lamp for that far corner (will need to get a black lampshade if I decide that's better), and a second lamp for the living room. Plus a few small baskets for my office. Spending money right now before my final paycheck drops and the second income goes away. :D

Oh that's fascinating. (though yes, you are not a word art person, I suspected.)

That looks like a grat layout, though.

I’m sure that word art pieces I might like exist, but they won’t be labels like “HOME” or pithy sayings. :)

The people who owned the house before us had word art everywhere and had so much other stuff bolted to the walls that we called it “The Chili’s House” to distinguish it when we were house hunting. And the neighbors told us that the realtor had made them take 2/3 of the stuff on the walls down!

Yay, reconfiguration of workday given different work constraints!

I knew intellectually that I could do things in the middle of the day, but it took a while to sink in!

I would like to figure out a new small couch or a couple of armchairs for my back room...one of these days.

It only took me ten years and three failed attempts to realize I needed to hire an expert. XD

I kind of want either leather or brightly-colored velvet.