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Bamboo Snafu

March
21 3
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Ugh. Our flooring came in, so Brandon and I went to Lowes to pick it up. Twas the wrong type of floor.

When we ordered it, we asked plenty of questions about installation (noting that we were going to do it ourselves), and we knew that we wanted to do a floating installation. I don’t think a nail-down or glue-down floor is within our skills, and that’s exactly what was ordered.

Well, it turns out that the floating, click-together type of floor was more expensive (+ $600!). We ended up getting it for the same price as the other stuff though, since it wasn’t our mistake. So thanks, Lowes. You both frustrate and calm us.

Now our floors won’t arrive for another 10 days.

link    Bedroom  •  3 Comments  •  March 21, 2007

Studying the Studio

March
19 5
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When I started my business (Pink Loves Brown), I used a second bedroom in the apartment we were renting as my studio. Soon work spilled out into the rest of our home, and areas like the dining room table became the shipping center. After two years, I had finally rented a separate studio space! Hooray! 600 square feet of space!

Then we decided to buy a house, and I gave up the studio. I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, because it is a trade-off I was more than happy to make. Brandon and I both wanted a house so badly, and there is room here for me to make a studio… in a spare bedroom. Just like when I started. ;)

So now the space has gone from 600 square feet down to about 150. It’s tight, but manageable.

Studio montage

A lot of work has been done already. I’ve painted the dragon (YAY), turned the closet into storage for crafty supplies, and setup my shipping center (not on the dining room table, thankyouverymuch). Still to do: rip up the carpet and lay the solid bamboo floors, paint the wood trim white, and change the window treatments.

Plus it feels a little bland in there. Maybe I shouldn’t have gotten rid of the dragon!

link    Pink Loves Brown, Studio  •  5 Comments  •  March 19, 2007

We choose you, bamboo.

March
15 4
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A decision has been made about the bedroom floor! Brandon and I went to Lowes last night and we chose solid bamboo in a very dark brown (Jacobean). Hooray! We ordered enough for the bedroom and for the studio, so no more yucky carpet for us!

link    Bedroom, Studio  •  4 Comments  •  March 15, 2007

Butterflies in my Stomach

March
13 2
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Hrmmm… What do you all think about this?

Art Project

I was at Paper Source today, and I just happened to see those buterflies. So I thought: “Oh! I can frame them in little shadowboxes and hang them down the hallway!” I bought that textured yellow paper, and I can pick up some white shadowboxes pretty inexpensively.

I was planning to put them in the library/hallway/upstairs space, and I think they’d look good against the chocolate brown walls. I’ve never really been into taxidermy or butterflies, so it’s sort of strange to me that I thought to do this little art project. I still think I might just return the butterflies and do something else. We’ll see.

*edited to add: No need to worry, butterfly lovers. These are indeed fake butterflies!

link    Library  •  2 Comments  •  March 13, 2007

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