Couple of Keys

Category: Rooms

  • Weekend Warriors: Front Door

    Weekend Warriors: Front Door

    Painting the front the door and imagining what it could look like in the future.

  • A Lovely Knight

    A Lovely Knight

    The last time you saw our living room it looked a little like this: I needed to get rid of that peachy color as fast as possible and I really liked the idea of an accent wall. I’ve never been scared of dark walls so I started there. Our last place had a couple black…

  • The Master

    The Master

    I promise this blog isn’t just about floors now. To prove it, I’m taking a break from the Living Room to share progress in the master bedroom. It’s definitely not done but we’ve made so much progress from sleeping on a mattress on the floor on top of scary brown wall-to-wall carpeting. We’ve upgraded from…

  • Clean up on Aisle 4

    Clean up on Aisle 4

    A quick update on the living room floor (a million years later). When we finally removed all of the carpeting, it started to become more and more apparent why they had covered it up with all that carpeting, over which they threw over some beautiful Jaipur rugs. At some point, someone decided to paint the…

  • Buried Treasure

    Buried Treasure

    The first two things we did when we received our keys was A) lay on the floor and bask in the glory of it all and B) rip up a corner of the carpet in the living room. I had done some research and found that houses built in the 50s and 60s were almost…

  • Gangsters don’t dance, we boogie.

    Gangsters don’t dance, we boogie.

    Update: I’ve made modifications to my eating habits and am using NTC as a proper warmup for running. 15 minutes of almost any workout from the app and I can last a lot longer on the treadmill. Small victories, y’all! So it’s only February and I’m trying to party outside? Well, I do live in…

  • Retro Heat

    Retro Heat

    So, something amazing happened when I was working on the last post. But first, let’s rewind. I used to be subscribed to Design Public’s newsletter and let me tell you, it was pure torture so I unsubscribed. Torture because I basically wanted everything and couldn’t afford it. One of my biggest wants from them is…

  • Yardage.

    Yardage.

    Our backyard (and frontyard) is in a state of disarray. Remember this? 3 years ago? Yea, well it’s worse. Nothing is overgrown, its just dead now. Horribly dead. Those pictures actually make the yard look gorgeous looking back at them. We tell ourselves we don’t water in order to keep our bills low, but I’m…

  • failure.

    failure.

    Guys, I couldn’t do it. Scratch that, I didn’t do it. I didn’t make my own deadline. As I walked in the door last night after a day of Christmas overload (we decorated Yong’s mom’s house), the disappointment fully set in as I realized what day it was. My plans had included using this weekend…

  • back to work.

    back to work.

    Below is the current state of events when it comes to my workspace. Sad, I know. I don’t think I’ve ever shared this space because I never really knew where I was going with it. I kept waiting to have some epiphany about how to finish it.  I have a thing for black walls and…