Friday, January 14, 2011

help!

ok, so i am in serious need of making a decision and i just can't seem to do it. remember when we were little girls and looking at wedding magazines and dreaming about what your wedding would be like was so fun? well, ever since i have been married, i do the same thing, except with homes. so now that i have a home and can paint and decorate however the heck i want, and i can't decide which idea to do! so here is my problem:
currently my front room looks like this: {yes, i still don't have much furniture, searching for the perfect pieces is taking longer then wanted, but surely worth the wait in my opinion}

in the end i want a full wall or mostly full wall of bookcase where that little brown one is, a couch under the window and smaller chairs in same spots they are in now.

this was my original inspiration:

{ps-they tell you the exact color that this room is painted and i went to look at a swatch, but it was WAy dark, i don't know if it was photo lighting or what, but even the target pillow that i own now is not that bright of yellow...so i have been totally frusterated with finding the "perfect" shade in a magazine or online and finding it so not perfect in real life.}

i wanted robins egg walls, with white furniture and yellow accents. instead i have more of a country/sky blue.... so now that i have to re-paint i am considering doing something different. like stripes:
i am leaning more towards the tan rather then gray because i think it will match my carpet better, but i also got the suggestion to do a yellow and white stripe{not too bright, but not baby pale either} which i like.
i have also always wanted to paint/refinish/do something with the dark, old, college piano and thought it might be fun to have striped walls with a bright piano like the one on the left:

i also want to paint the fireplace accent wall a color in our family room. i was thinking if i do yellow and white stripes, i would do it the yellow color, or if i painted the piano, make the same color that i paint the piano only lighter.

then, today, i ran into this picture:

and totally fell in love with the striped curtains, so then i am thinking maybe i should just stick to my original robins egg blue walls and do striped yellow and white{or tan and white} curtains. but then i am not sure what to do with the piano.....
so basically i need to decide how to paint my front room, fireplace wall, and then what to do with the piano.
AHH! i am seriously driving myself{and husband} crazy and just need to make a decision and do it so i can move on with my life and other house projects!! any ideas/advice is appreciated:)
i just want to finish and have a cute home again. i am not use to living in an un-decorated place, also we are starting on the casing and baseboards and painting before those are installed will be much easier so i need to decide and paint like next week....
{please excuse if this is just a jumbled mess of ideas to you, my brain is on decorating overload. also, sorry to those i have already talked your ear off and sent you emails about this!}

3 comments:

Tracy said...

Oh my gosh, I love every one of your ideas!!! I cannot get over that blue printed lamp on the Country Living magazine cover and I love the tan and white striped walls and the striped curtains. I say go with a tannish color of some sort on the walls and then you have the freedom to buy really bright furniture or pillows or paint the piano a bright color and it won't be too much. But honestly, who am I to dole out advice? My house is a mish mash of free things people have given us. Good luck!

Kaela said...

Oooh, so I love the striped wall idea...but I also love the robin's egg blue and yellow motif...I think you should come up to LA and see if you can find the fabric you want for curtains before you make any decisions. :)

Becky said...

I found that the easiest way to START is to pick your favorite idea of all (painted piano, striped walls, or stripped curtains) This should probably be something bold that you are totally in love with, and then just do it and make everything else work around it. That way it is all based on your favorite thing.

It is all WAY too overwhelming if you try to plan with things you don't have. Pick a starting point and then it will all fall into place.

FYI- be careful about that Dora addiction. Audrey loves it and still loves it, and it is one of the top three most annoying cartoons to have on in the background in my opinion!!!