My decorating does face the constant tension between bookshelves and art.
There are cool switchplates out there, askye. Break away from the tyranny of white and beige plastic!
Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God. Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.
'Safe'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Jul 19, 2005 5:17:13 am PDT #1048 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 5:19:35 am PDT #1049 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have stuff up on my walls in a few places -- either where the furniture is final, or there's definitely not going to be furniture. That's not much of a dent.
Well, I haven't managed any calories this morning, but the vitamins did stay politely down, and I'm taking that as encouragement to go into work.
Betsy HP - Jul 19, 2005 5:37:36 am PDT #1050 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Is this better or worse than "smug little upper-middle-class lives are so shallow " works, like American Beauty and Fight Club?
Can I go with "equally annoying"?
I like a little self-awareness in my confessional essays, some sense that "I know other people have experienced this, but this is why my experience is different/more representative/more interesting". Not to mention some sense that "I realize that my experience is extraordinarily full of privilege".
askye - Jul 19, 2005 5:44:08 am PDT #1051 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
I am definitly getting cool switch plate covers.
Theodosia - Jul 19, 2005 5:46:12 am PDT #1052 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Replacing switch covers is easy, skye! The pretty ones usually come with matching screws, so you don't even have to hunt up anything but a screwdriver!
Nora Deirdre - Jul 19, 2005 5:53:29 am PDT #1053 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
we got some really pretty blue lightswich covers at Target for our old apartment.
DXMachina - Jul 19, 2005 6:04:15 am PDT #1054 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Replacing switch covers is easy, skye! The pretty ones usually come with matching screws, so you don't even have to hunt up anything but a screwdriver!
Unless they were originally installed by the same guy who wired Nutty's soon to be former apartment.
askye - Jul 19, 2005 6:06:52 am PDT #1055 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
Installing the covers shouldn't be too hard, but there are a lot of them.
I'm not sure what anyone was thinking when the house was built but I don't have to worry about a shortage of outlets.
Ginger - Jul 19, 2005 6:16:00 am PDT #1056 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Replacing them is usually easy, except in a few cases in my house where the outlet was just sort of shoved randomly in the box. Here, it was taking them off that was the challenge, because more than one previous owner had randomly painted over the switchplates, the window handles, the window latches and, occasionally, the windows. I think of myself as the worst painter ever, but that is behind the prize-winners who've owned my houses.
P.M. Marc - Jul 19, 2005 6:20:24 am PDT #1057 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I love switchplates.
I don't know why I love them, but I do.
The separate bedrooms thing could have been a cover story, or maybe one of them snored. I have no clue.