Jennifro

Take that--rewind it back!

or

I'm going back to the start..

Well, the start of April anyway. Just because I've evolved into a quintessential blog slacker doesn't mean I don't wanna catch up now and again. Thank you iphoto for being my memory.

A few months ago we sucked it up and threw this room together. I wish I had a before and after (don't you always think of that too late?) This is our sunroom. We ditched the lace curtains and the denim slipcovers and replaced them with leather and a simple valance. It felt like a new world being able to see out of the nine windows. We recently replaced the windows-- they're so nice--it's awesome not to have to hide the old one's anymore. I'm not really a dark leather woman (unless you're thinking about my sun damaged skin in 20 years) but they've become a necessity in this room that gets the kid beat-down daily.

We painted the walls fresh and Nick spruced up the floor with a more brilliant version of the same thing. He's a trooper-- tough job.

Sort of an aqua-turquoise. For ONCE I got the color right the first time and love it! I'm in the process of redoing most of my downstairs and this is a color I want to weave throughout. When I got married and had to register at Dillards they asked me the colors of my house? Having virtually NO clue-- and still in college-- I thought of my trendy mother and her lovely Southwest decor and said crisply and confidently, "light pink and aqua!" My dear friends Eric and Anjie, have never let me live that phrase down. To my credit, however, I must have been in tune with my inner color wheel, since I've been repeating versions of the originals ever since.

Didn't have a new light, so being impatient, I sprayed the old and took off the dated-looking glass hurricane things. It looks a bit more contemporary and I like it. When I was in Vegas last, I took pictures of the high-gloss orange and red chandeliers in the gelato shop in the Bellagio. They had been spray painted--crystals and all. I loved the look. So.. here's a junkier version but still a fun splash of color.

I love how my curtains turned out. Again, being a lazy girl at heart, and wanting this re-do done lickity split, I just hot-glued my $2,000,000 trim onto the fabric and voila!--there it is.

One down. Miles to go.