Decorating priorities
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beccaelizabethI am looking at a flat I might maybe be buying (gulp).
It has new bathrooms and new carpets, which is in theory yaay
but the carpet is brown.
Everything is kind of brown. Magnolia and darkish woods and brown carpet. Beige brown blergh.
So on the one hand, new carpet, I don't need to buy newer carpet
but on the other, brown.
They logically function fine, I wouldn't need new carpet, it would just be purely because I kind of hate brown.
Which seems like a good reason.
But I have an ongoing lack of non-broken functional furniture too, so, theoretically that should take priority?
But then I'd have to get all the furniture moved around at some later point, to replace the carpets, which will still be brown.
Probably I should go with my current plan, which is to buy the rugs I'd already planned on and see how much carpet I can cover. It's not like there's planning to be a whole room full of uncovered carpet after I put my stuff in there. Maybe small amounts of brown around the edges won't bother me?
The basic problem is to me it only looks dirty. It's not like a color, it's like someone spread the dirt in aesthetically pleasing to them ways. Which is partly because brown in general and partly because of the brown carpet in the first flat I moved into, which we only thought was that shade of brown until someone walked across it barefoot once. That was some utterly manky carpet. Also it contributed to the invisible mouse problem, because the mouse turned out to be the exact shade of the carpet. So, brown carpet, not awesome.
But still new.
Ugh, if I had money for carpet *and* furniture it would be simples. Or if I knew how much I'd have left every month so I could make a chart of when new furniture would arrive.
(Furniture is annoying and keeps going on clearance and going away. I could at this moment get the bedstead I've been planning on super cheap, but because it is on clearance. By the time I have a bedroom to put it in I suspect I'll have to choose a new bedstead. Which actually I might not mind, cause I saw different pictures of it and I'd maybe got the scale wrong in my head so it's not so cool as I thought, but still.)
It's not that I particularly want the rich stuff, I like the £1.99 houses magazine and the shops in it like argos and tesco and bhs just fine. It's just it's nice to have options, and money means you can choose stuff instead of just bouncing along.
It would be nice if I had any likely means of making money. The writing thing isn't a thing when my brain is doing the thing, and my other option is wait on the premium bonds. As is, I just wait for the government to decide how much money I basically need. Which beats a lot of other countries, I know, but doesn't feel like many choices are included.
... this may be why I've spent all year obsessing on what to decorate with. Because so much to choose from. At least at the pretty pinboard stage.
If I make the walls TARDIS console room grey and the woodwork TARDIS blue, the carpet would need to be grey or blue, and I have blue here and like it. Blue is the correct colour for floors. Though grey would go with the TARDIS theme more.
But either way, I don't need it for function or really clean purposes, so it just seems like a whole heap of money I should keep for something else.
But then, brown.
Maybe if I take them all up to make insulated floor, even just with thermal underlay, that'll feel like a good reason?
... but I could put them all down on top again.
Eh, if I was going to a place that hadn't been desperately trying to acquire a buyer so they redid everything in neutrals, I'd need new carpets anyway, cause you never know with other people's carpets. So it's been in the planning budget for a while. But there's always other things to do if you turn out not to need that line.
It's not like I have to currently decide. It's just, how do decisions?
Decide. And see if you like what happens.
ETA: The decide is only what carpet to put in the flat. I have decided to try and buy the flat. I await the will of the mortgage company and leaseholders. Hence the nerves. Well, also that it's a lot of money for a very long time and do I really need a new flat? And yes, I really do need a new flat, so that side of nervous should just shush. But in displacement activity, carpets. Lots of carpets. /ETA
It has new bathrooms and new carpets, which is in theory yaay
but the carpet is brown.
Everything is kind of brown. Magnolia and darkish woods and brown carpet. Beige brown blergh.
So on the one hand, new carpet, I don't need to buy newer carpet
but on the other, brown.
They logically function fine, I wouldn't need new carpet, it would just be purely because I kind of hate brown.
Which seems like a good reason.
But I have an ongoing lack of non-broken functional furniture too, so, theoretically that should take priority?
But then I'd have to get all the furniture moved around at some later point, to replace the carpets, which will still be brown.
Probably I should go with my current plan, which is to buy the rugs I'd already planned on and see how much carpet I can cover. It's not like there's planning to be a whole room full of uncovered carpet after I put my stuff in there. Maybe small amounts of brown around the edges won't bother me?
The basic problem is to me it only looks dirty. It's not like a color, it's like someone spread the dirt in aesthetically pleasing to them ways. Which is partly because brown in general and partly because of the brown carpet in the first flat I moved into, which we only thought was that shade of brown until someone walked across it barefoot once. That was some utterly manky carpet. Also it contributed to the invisible mouse problem, because the mouse turned out to be the exact shade of the carpet. So, brown carpet, not awesome.
But still new.
Ugh, if I had money for carpet *and* furniture it would be simples. Or if I knew how much I'd have left every month so I could make a chart of when new furniture would arrive.
(Furniture is annoying and keeps going on clearance and going away. I could at this moment get the bedstead I've been planning on super cheap, but because it is on clearance. By the time I have a bedroom to put it in I suspect I'll have to choose a new bedstead. Which actually I might not mind, cause I saw different pictures of it and I'd maybe got the scale wrong in my head so it's not so cool as I thought, but still.)
It's not that I particularly want the rich stuff, I like the £1.99 houses magazine and the shops in it like argos and tesco and bhs just fine. It's just it's nice to have options, and money means you can choose stuff instead of just bouncing along.
It would be nice if I had any likely means of making money. The writing thing isn't a thing when my brain is doing the thing, and my other option is wait on the premium bonds. As is, I just wait for the government to decide how much money I basically need. Which beats a lot of other countries, I know, but doesn't feel like many choices are included.
... this may be why I've spent all year obsessing on what to decorate with. Because so much to choose from. At least at the pretty pinboard stage.
If I make the walls TARDIS console room grey and the woodwork TARDIS blue, the carpet would need to be grey or blue, and I have blue here and like it. Blue is the correct colour for floors. Though grey would go with the TARDIS theme more.
But either way, I don't need it for function or really clean purposes, so it just seems like a whole heap of money I should keep for something else.
But then, brown.
Maybe if I take them all up to make insulated floor, even just with thermal underlay, that'll feel like a good reason?
... but I could put them all down on top again.
Eh, if I was going to a place that hadn't been desperately trying to acquire a buyer so they redid everything in neutrals, I'd need new carpets anyway, cause you never know with other people's carpets. So it's been in the planning budget for a while. But there's always other things to do if you turn out not to need that line.
It's not like I have to currently decide. It's just, how do decisions?
Decide. And see if you like what happens.
ETA: The decide is only what carpet to put in the flat. I have decided to try and buy the flat. I await the will of the mortgage company and leaseholders. Hence the nerves. Well, also that it's a lot of money for a very long time and do I really need a new flat? And yes, I really do need a new flat, so that side of nervous should just shush. But in displacement activity, carpets. Lots of carpets. /ETA
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Date: 2014-12-25 06:06 am (UTC)Happy Christmas! I hope your gathering tomorrow goes well and also that everything leads to you having a nicer place to live soon.
Julia
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Date: 2014-12-25 05:38 pm (UTC)I have been collecting pictures / links of nice rugs. There's some that are super pretty.
My Christmas went well, I hope yours does too.
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Date: 2014-12-26 08:44 pm (UTC)