Redecorating

How often do you redecorate a room?  We've been in our house for 6 1/2 years, and I've got the itch to redecorate.  I'd love to repaint all of my house, top to bottom, but Randy isn't so much on board with that.  It needs to be done, though.

Decorating does start to get really expensive, so I'm not changing anything too major (furniture), but I've still spent plenty.  I have a hard time waiting around for the best deals & end up trying to get it all done without regard to the cost.  That's just how I am.

My aim is to freshen up the downstairs living areas, powder room, kitchen, and our master bedroom & bath.  We'll see if Randy makes me work the corner by the time I'm done spending all of his money.  :)  This will just be an update on our living rooms & bedroom, since I haven't purchased anything for the powder room, kitchen, and master bath yet.

We had our carpets and couches cleaned last week, but they need to be redone.  I came home from being out of town & excited to put together my new purchases & was really disappointed.  (Sub-par job?  Aggravating.)  I went ahead and put all of the furniture back into our living rooms & we'll deal with removing everything again when we need to.


So far, I have purchased for the living room:

• a rug (we've never had one & our traffic patterns are obvious)
• lampshades for our living room lamps (ours had seen better days)
• a new piece of artwork
• a pillow that incorporates more color into the space with the existing colors
• coordinating pillows for our front room
• colored glass bottles for decoration

I also moved our piano & switched around some candles I already had.


For the living room, I still want to buy:

• curtains
• more coordinating pillows
• paint

For our bedroom, I have purchased:

• new bedding (comforter, sheets, bed skirt, decorative pillows)
• curtains
• vases

I would still like to:

• install board & batten
• paint
• purchase some frames & wall decor
• install a fan and wall sconces (and get rid of the lamps I have hated for the last 10 years!)

I will post some before & afters when I get things a little more put together & feel like it's somewhat finished.  Hopefully I can rope Randy into helping out with a few of the projects.

I'm sure Randy thinks I believe money grows on trees.  Speaking of which, does anyone have any money trees that need to be harvested?  I'm available for hire.  :)