Post by NYPinTA on Sept 6, 2017 17:10:47 GMT -5
Over the years I'm been replacing a lot of the stuff in my apartment because I wanted stuff I picked, not hand me downs or things I got because it would do at the time. About 90% of my stuff are things I actually chose now. With half of the remaining 10% being stuff I got from others, (like a small chest of drawers that was my grandmothers, or my stupid brother in laws life chair that I can't seem to sell and it's so heavy I can't get it out of the apartment on my own), or things my mom picked. But all of the stuff on the walls are things I hung because it was in their house and I wanted them to feel at home when we all moved here, but now I'm the only one left and it's weird to have mine and my sister's senior high school photos up, right?
But the biggest issue is actually my dining room. On one wall are three mirrors that are glued to the walls. The former landlord put them up when they lived here. I hate them, but the light is an issue and using mirrors makes the most of what little light I get in this place. So I was going to take them down, frame them out and rehang them on a different wall. Then where the mirrors were, I want to hang a series of framed quotes. I already picked out the quotes, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how I want them... I mean, I need some color in this place. I was going to paint the dining room a pale yellow with white trim. I have a sideboard I was going to paint TARDIS blue. Then with the windows, I wanted to get some kind of jeweled toned window clings to mimic a stained glass window. I liked the plain blocks of color like in X-Men Days of Future Past when they're all in that mountain top monastery or whatever. So if I had that on one wall, I was thinking the framed quotes should mimic the colors. So, do I print the quotes on jeweled toned colored paper or put the quotes on white paper but get mats in the jewel toned colors? Or is that too much? Maybe I should stick to black and white for the quote wall... So. Thoughts? Ideas?
If anyone really cares, here are the six quotes:
If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do. ~Tim Minear
You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ~Neil Gaiman
Let the wild rumpus start! ~Maurice Sendak
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. ~Phlip K. Dick
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. ~John Steinback
But the biggest issue is actually my dining room. On one wall are three mirrors that are glued to the walls. The former landlord put them up when they lived here. I hate them, but the light is an issue and using mirrors makes the most of what little light I get in this place. So I was going to take them down, frame them out and rehang them on a different wall. Then where the mirrors were, I want to hang a series of framed quotes. I already picked out the quotes, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how I want them... I mean, I need some color in this place. I was going to paint the dining room a pale yellow with white trim. I have a sideboard I was going to paint TARDIS blue. Then with the windows, I wanted to get some kind of jeweled toned window clings to mimic a stained glass window. I liked the plain blocks of color like in X-Men Days of Future Past when they're all in that mountain top monastery or whatever. So if I had that on one wall, I was thinking the framed quotes should mimic the colors. So, do I print the quotes on jeweled toned colored paper or put the quotes on white paper but get mats in the jewel toned colors? Or is that too much? Maybe I should stick to black and white for the quote wall... So. Thoughts? Ideas?
If anyone really cares, here are the six quotes:
If nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do. ~Tim Minear
You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up.
Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. ~Neil Gaiman
Let the wild rumpus start! ~Maurice Sendak
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. ~Phlip K. Dick
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart; I am, I am, I am. ~Sylvia Plath
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. ~John Steinback
