Design Attention Deficit Disorder

I used up all of my markers for asking

my adult daughters design questions about my house

long ago.

I can’t understand why they wouldn’t want to

discuss changes I want to make in the study,

a gazillion times,

for over a year?

I woke up one day,

looked around

and thought,

‘I can do better than this.’


The problem is the study contains some of my favorite things.

chinoiserie prints and white wicker

lamps

 

Indonesian silver plate

books and mirrors

 

blue and white transferware

saltillo tile

framed prints

 

crown moulding, plantation shutters, and white metal

But it also has this nap haven of a couch

in a soft,soft

very dated

cabbage rose chintz.

 

And so I have made this more complicated than it is.

The changes I am thinking about are:

gray walls with white moulding

a silver gray velveteen couch

silver leafed mirror

mercury glass lamps

a small crystal chandelier

and a lighter,larger rug

And then I feel overwhelmed…

and I try to call one of my daughters…

to talk about the study…

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I am linking to

Metamorphosis Monday.