Are You Neglecting Your Own Home? I Had Been!
Hi All!
After outing my myself and my messy dining room/kitchen nook last week, I was totally motivated to dive into a project. I’ve been working on my friends’ loft for so long that it has sucked up all my weekend D.I.Y. energy for six months. Now it’s time for my own house.
I have this funky sun porch. It was formerly a screened-in porch but now it is winterized. I always fantasized that it would be my studio, but so far the only one who’s made anything in there is my cat, as the litter box has been the main feature of the room for a long time, or as they say all too often on HGTV, it was the “focal point.” The room is long and very narrow, so it’s a bit awkward, and I haven’t known what to do with it. Here’s the start:
Inspired by the “nature study” look I’ve been admiring lately, as well as Victoria’s advice for art arrangement, I got to work all day Saturday. With a little help from a friend, I finally had a sconce bought months ago at Ballard’s Backroom installed where the wires had been hanging out of the wall for two years. I painted an old green bench from my grandparents’ garden black, and rearranged a few pieces that had been haphazardly thrown in there because they had nowhere else to go. I finally hung some of my thrift store art, charcoals I did in Venice that had something to do with “Campo Circulation,” whatever the heck that means, and some photographs of friends on my second-favorite bridge, the Brooklyn Bridge.
