Grellow...

Why don't we talk about interior decorating today?

I'm in a mood.

When I'm in this mood, it tends to be bad.

I want to decorate and put together our living room, bedroom, or any room in our house for that matter. I just want to see the vision in my head come to fruition.

Yea, its a bad thing to be this anxious about it.

Maybe its the two cups of coffee I have had this morning...

I tried giving it up, I really did, but apparently coffee is just meant to be my drug of choice. Good thing it isn't expensive like crack or meth.

I mean come on, buying a house and spending hundreds of dollars on drugs don't go together.

Yup, I'm thanking God for this less expensive addiction.

So, decorating?

Well, that is usually an expensive addiction too. It can cost an arm and a leg. I remember watching a show on HGTV where they would put together a room for a fraction of the cost of an inspiration room. Sometimes the inspiration room would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then, the other room, would cost less than two thousand beans and look even better! Pretty impressive, but still expensive in my book.

Today I am in the mood to imagine what our house could look like.

It's a much more frugal way of doing things. Don'tcha think?

Take our living room for example.

It is literally a blank slate right now (thanks to some lovely ladies!). Now, imagine the walls becoming a lovely light cream color. Insert this rug

and you have the foundations of a room. The rug will be the inspiration for the rest of the room. So, the wall color is that light cream color, like I mentioned, and we will be bringing in the dark brown with our current living room furniture (because we haven't been able to sell it).

I have to be honest, I am warming up to the idea of keeping it all. It definitely isn't ideal and the decorator in me cringes slightly, but I can't rationalize parting with it when we have only had it for a year. I will just make it work :)

So, we have the bones of the room.

I think that the big couch will go along the right wall, in front of the window. Then, we will probably use the matching arm chair and put it where the radio is (that thing to the left of the overturned tub). The TV will go between the front door and the window.

Then from this angle, you will be able to see the desk with our computer along the back, right wall. Thankfully our computer desk and our buffet-turned-entertainment-center match pretty well, even though they are made by two completely different companies.



So, after thinking through all of these details, I think its important to add in a bit of color. I originally thought about using orange. Something similar to this

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But, I want to paint our dining room a color that will accent nicely with the living room and well, orange walls weren't really appealing to me. But, then I saw the grellow (green yellow) walls in this room by YHL and thought that I could make that work in our dining room. 

So, grellow accents is what we will be going for. Since the living room and dining room are pretty open to each other, I thought it was only appropriate that they match. 

Thus, the color combination will look more like this:

This room is way more traditional then ours will be, but you get the idea of how the aqua and grellow should work together. 

What do you think? Is 'grellow' a new word to you? When I first heard it, I was a bit confused. How's that for designer slang-yo?