apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

LOL -- I love the cheap thrill I get when I open AT and see my pic posted. Thanks for the smile!!
:)

moni-ka--which picture is yours?
I'm havng a disconnect with the names, again!

Merskine,
Can you tell us what color of paint you used in your living room? It reads as a teal in the photos and is just beautiful with everything you have.

me too, but now i'm ashamed, my paint a sofa clash!

hi all -- i'm merskine on flickr, but moni-ka in ky on AT. sorry for the confusion!!

I REALLY wish I knew the living room paint color to share. It was already that color when we moved in - I couldn't believe how well it went with our stuff! It's an unusual color...It reads as a soft grey most of the time, but it definitely has a greenish-teal quality depending on the light. I know they used Valspar paint in the rest of the house. Next time I see our landlord I'll bug him about it...and maybe going searching through our (scary) basement for an old can. We need do some touchups anyway...I LOVE the color so I'm hoping we don't have to repaint altogether!

Stephvixen -- I don't think your sofa and paint clash at all! Actually, I was drooling over your blue paint and pops of yellow last night.

merskine/moni-ka--that table is hot! nice job!

steph vixen your room looks great, i love the yellow with the blue. farmersdaughter good job on getting rid of all that stuff, that cat photo to the far left is so interesting.

That evil cat is an old painting I got at a yard sale a few years back. I think it's rather old.

Does anyone else live with someone who just empties his pockets on the dresser and never ever throws any of it out?

Markers and pencils by the dozen, receipts, cards, even cough drops...I put a nice tray on the dresser to corral it all....but now I want something that will hide it (but not be too big like a basket.) Has anyone come up with a solution to this? It can't be anything with a cover: good grief, if he can't put it in the garbage, he's not going to lift a cover!
Thanks.

Great work everyone!

I'm not ending up as productive as I started out, but I'm having unexpected time constraints, so I'm ok with it. Sometimes you just gotta let go, ya know? Besides, I'm not in a rush, I'll keep finishing projects as I can even after week 8 is long gone.

Last weekend I managed to clean out the linen closet, even the boy noticed! I also switched out the winter clothes (but have yet to fill it with all the summer clothes, so the closet looks refreshingly empty for a change.

I hope to finally hang living room art this weekend. Thanks to your flickr feedback, I'm going to use what I have rather than making a hurried purchase. If it turns out as good as I imagine it, I'll be thrilled.

Dare I hope we can get and hang a bedroom fan too? Stay tuned. ;)

Alana - I feel your pain. The boy has a basket on the landing strip, cups of change in the laundry area (for when he doesn't empty pockets), and throws receipts in a dresser drawer. It's mostly hidden, but there is so much of it it still drives me nuts!

Thanks for the sympathy, Candice.

I'm in the process of working out a chore system for the kids. One of the things the authors recommend when cleaning a room, for example, is a list of things "allowed" out on surfaces. That way, when you inspect whether the child has done it "properly" there's no argument about what should and should not be there.

Sigh. I wish my m-i-l had done something like this.

Due to multiple illnesses in my household and other issues, I have not been able to participate as much a I would have liked. Please remove me from the list. I'll catch the next one....