Category: Renovation Time

While in London, I visited the Victoria & Albert Museum. After cruising through the various galleries, I went into the gift shop where I immediately spotted a bag made of fabric in the Chrysanthemum, by William Morris pattern in the blue-gray, brown, mauve & cream color. I love the fabric. I adore the bag. I have been using it almost every day since I bought it, and it is fabulous. So today I thought it would be cool to see if I could buy fabric like that for decorating use.

The fabric is *cough* $116 *cough* a yard. So for $116, I could have two throw pillows. (No, the bag did not cost that much. It was 12 pounds, or just short of $24.)

Wow. $116. A yard. For fabric. That is just crazy talk. Although it really is a beautiful pattern. Not that beautiful though!

Update: Ok, this website has it for under $100 a meter for the 100% cotton. The woven fabric is closer to $140. Yowza.

The heart border that used to be in our bedroom is gone. GONE! GONE! GONE!!!

Whew. Sorry for the exclamation point abuse, but I am simply that excited about it.

There was very little progress most of the day yesterday, since the dust bunnies attacked me Sunday night and I felt so miserable. A second dose of Clarytin (from the UK) and another round of Excedrin and I was finally able to get out of the sinus haze and function again. Taking down the remaining border only took me an hour.

Paint samples are up on the wall now, and I am being my usual indecisive self in trying to pick a wall color, there’s just so many home remodeling options. One is the exact same shade as the bedding. One is a shade darker. The bedding will not be directly on the wall, so they are not side by side. Is it best to go a shade darker? So the room isn’t all matchy-matchy? It is a huge room, so a dark color is not going to overwhelm it at all.

I would post photos, but the whole thing is a surprise for Mike since he left for the Hague (again) on Saturday. He has no idea what I’m doing in there. So I am limited on what I can give away here, unless I ban him from blog reading for the rest of the week. Hmmm…