DECISIONS, DECISIONS

Hi everyone,

Hope your weekend is going great.  All over and done with down in my part of the world and Monday morning I've woken to a rather gray day and it looks like it's been raining over night.  Oh, well, I suppose the fabulous fall weather had to end eventually.

With the change in season, I am finding I'm focusing more on projects to be finished - yes THAT BIG LIST again.

This time it's curtains for the master bedroom, and the family room.

Now as you know I chose this fabric for our master room headboard.

And the purple is the wall color - all four walls, though one is a mirrored wardrobe too and another is a sliding door out onto the patio.

Not that it's any closer to getting the headboard done, but... well, good things take time - at least that is what I'm telling myself.

So the conundrum for the curtains is this - do I go simple white/off white (boring??) or do I go color co-ordinated. I could have chosen the co-ordinating fabric to the headboard fabric, but it was a tad too much I thought, all stripes in yellow, purple, pink and green.  I did find a nice off white fabric which had a thin purple stripe in it (intermittently), but felt that it could be like sleeping in a room with a white sheet hanging on the window - and yes, we've probably all done that in our student apartment days, and I'm all grown up now, so want a big girl room!

These are some options I've come up with 

The Samples from Martha's Fabrics - a fabric heaven in Newmarket, Auckland.

 The check is actually reversible, white check, or purple check.

 The reverse side

 The darker purple fabric, I think might be adding too much purple in the room.

I love the lemon and white print, but again I think it's adding another major print to the room, given that we already have a striking print for the headboard.

Then there is this stripe which i quite like...but....

Oh...decisions, decisions.

However, I think I’ll be going with the reversible check fabric, using the white check as the side facing the room.

Or... there is another option.  Go with a plain velvet headboard (silver gray??? or even a dark purple) and use the original headboard fabric for the curtains.

 Here's some Pinterest ideas

 From Pinterest - the Missing Piece

From Pinterest - mycandicedesign.com

What do you think?

Happy days

Jane

DIPPING MY TOES

Hello blogging world

I’m here. Now don’t all rush in…well, yeah, do.  Actually I do hope you find me.  It’s taken a while to get up the courage to begin this little blog, but here I am.  What is it I hope to bring you?

Well, it’ll be a little bit me, a little bit you, a little bit of decorating, organizing, and crafts, maybe a recipe or two, and hopefully a whole lot of fun and inspiration.  If this sounds a little bit like a Marie and Donny Osmond song, you can blame it on Vegas when I saw Marie in concert last year!  Fab show, so worth the $$ to go, but not the attack of the elevator to moi after the show, but I digress because that is an entirely different story!!

About two or three years ago I discovered the world of decorating blogs and fell in love.  I mean who wouldn’t love reading up about the wonderfully talented bloggers out there who transform their homes into swoon worthy pictures of loveliness.  But you know real life gets in the way. How could my home be so lovely? How could I be so organized? How could it look perfect?

Well, of course the answer is it can’t and so I got me some thinking done and realized that I can make my home the best it can be.  I hope to show that it doesn’t have to be perfect to be lovely and comforting. 

So where to start?

Today…. Color!  Or not to color?

Firstly let me say I am NOT  a beige kinda gal.  I mean at my advanced (cough cough) age I’ve given up beige(gray) and am now a redhead!  Loving it!

And so too with my home.  We moved to our little slice of paradise  - 10 acres of bush and wonderful native birds – three years ago.  Of course the house was property seller’s beige.  Yuk! 

Now the change starts with my bedroom at last.  Iadmit I love the decorating styles of DEAR LILLIE 

and THE ESSENCE OF HOME, 

but I just don’t think I could live with such neutrals.  Luckily I managed to convince the hubby to go for color.  The conversation went a little like this

What about blue?.

Nope we had blue in the last house

Yellow

Ditto

Pink

Too girly

Purple.

Hmmm Maybe

Got ya! 

Delighted to have snagged a maybe I scoured the paint shop for every purple under the sun

 

Via Pinterest

Finally we agreed on this purple on the bedhead wall (okay we don’t have a bed head yet but it will come), and maybe a blush of pink on the other  three walls.

Painter came and painted with Dulux Lake Pukaki on the bedhead wall and a half tint of Titi Islands on the other three walls

This was a BIG OOPSIE!!  Now I’m a girly girl, I wear lots of pink but this was a big no no. 

It might grow on you hubby says. Leave it a couple of days

It didn’t.   Again I get the hubby to trust me (ha ha ha) and tell Mr Painter to go the whole hog with purple on all four walls.
The result - I’m in love!  The purple is GLORIOUS. 

(Now don't look at the stuff on the bed, remember it doesn't have to be perfect!)

So the morale of this story is if the wife is happy, hubby will happy too – hopefully.

So that’s the saga of our bedroom, but wait, there’s more to come. Curtains, bedhead, side tables, oh an art work… yep it’s definitely a work in progress in My Imperfect Paradise.

Happy days everyone and pop back for more adventures.

Jane 
Linking to Savvy Southern Style