Unlocking Creativity

(Traditional Home 2012)

This is a bait and switch post.


I do NOT know what unlocks my creativity

in terms of design in my home.


In addition-

to make matters more complicated,


I have entered a sort of indecisive,

hand-wringing stage of late

where ideas dart around and rarely land.


And so when that happens, the phone calls to daughters start

beginning with me saying

”Don’t hang up. I just want to ask you about my paint colors.”


If that doesn’t work, I text friends (Anna, Jenny) or email other bloggers (Karianne).


And so today,

after days a la Cinderella’s step-sister trying to jam her foot into the wrong shoe,

something broke loose,

and my creativity rebooted and started to flow naturally again.



Why today?

I have no idea. 

It just did

after doing the things I listed below.


Here is what I learned if you are ever faced with this stumbling block:



*Decide what you don’t like.

I eliminated a large portion of the

color choices for our guest bedroom at Sherwin Williams by scanning the board and saying

”No, no, no…”




* Once it clicks ,and you feel your creative juices flowing-

Run!

My house may be a big hot mess right now

because 4 rooms have been repainted in the last week

(my utility room is now cobalt blue),

but I am seizing the day.


* And finally, when I asked our daughter the librarian

if she wanted to come by during her lunch break today to

look at the white paint color I picked 

(I know… I was really pushing my luck),

when she agreed,

I ran around the house 90 miles an hour

fixing her lunch

and putting things I thought would look good on the bed in the newly painted bedroom.



That worked

MAGIC.

Who knew that all Sherwin Williams Snowbound

(Sherwin Williams 7004 )

needed

in a room with lots of natural light was

a white coverlet on the bed

which I will be spray painting in gold leaf,

a burlap pillow,

a mercury glass urn,

a chinoiserie vase in taupe and white,

a few antique gold accessories,

an antique gold and glass lamp from the flea market,

leopard print fabric that will cover a desk chair I am painting gold,

and two intaglio prints in gold frames I found at the flea market?

Who knew?


Apparently,

I DID.

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