Decoration Station

Now that all my belongings are in my apartment- it is time to get furniture, make my room my own. My style has a tendency to be sort of a hodge podge. If left to my own devices, the living space would be a rainbow of bright colors with no rhyme and reason of why they are matched together. When I go shopping for decorations, I do not have a common theme with colors, I like them a. Sky blues, lime greens, chocolate brown, highlighter yellow and daisy yellow- the list of random colors I would want in my room and space is endless.

But as a some sort of emerging 20-something, I at least want my room to sort of match now, have a common theme. In high school and college, my walls were filled with notebook paper splattered with markers, along with rip outs from magazines and pictures of my friends at the time. Same goes for college, with additions like sorority composites and paddles. But now, what do I do? I still want to have my friends pictures around and the pictures that I have drawn hung up- so what is there a 20-something to do?

frames, frames, frames. For me, frames are the new tape. Just stick whatever picture I want into a brown colored frame, and it matches.

A good friend went furniture/decoration shopping with me yesterday. She has always had a knack of finding a theme and sticking to it. Everything she touches and arranges just looks nice and put together- no effort involved. Me, this is a different story- so I decided to bring her along for my adventure, hoping her talents would rub off on me.

Now, her talents didn't rub off on me, but she was there to tell me no. I would pick up a picture and say, "Oh my gosh, I love this, its so me." and all she would do was look at me, like I was a bit insane and say, "its cool, but it doesn't match." That was the indicator to put the picture down and move on to the next one.

Of course, I am still me- and purchased some things that are out there, but those items are what make the room mine. But for the most part, I have to say that slowly, the room is coming together and at some point, it will be finished.

Lesson Learned:

decorating takes time- and for me, I need help.

peace, love and progress,

b