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The cats have vanished utterly. I have no idea where they are, nor have I seen them since last night. They have done this before, other times when people have used power tools in their vicinity or when I've moved: disappeared without a trace or mew. I only once managed to find them, when I opened a drawer in the kitchen which proved to be entirely full of tabby and calico fur, with two pairs of horrified and resentful amber eyes staring up at me. (I assume they climbed in through the back, because I can't imagine how they could have shut it behind them.) Anyway, I am going to assume they're OK and did not actually dash out the front door when the cable guy left it open.
I now have a bed and mattress. Yay! Now I need new bed linens-- but more pressingly, I need new bookcases. I took the opportunity of moving and the sale of British, New Zealand, Australian, South African, and Indian rights to Fishes to ditch my old and bought-used and never very nice bookcases, with the idea of buying nice new matching bookcases. (Office Depot seems the best bet: nice-looking natural wood, not too expensive, and they deliver.) But since I haven't done that yet, I now have something like fifty boxes of books scattered about the living room and office. (I kept the low set of bookcases that go under the windows, so I managed to unpack most of the boxes in the bedroom.)
I need to get the books into the bookcases before I can buy a sofa, or there will be nowhere to put the sofa. I'm going to buy a loveseat and matching armchair from a local place that does custom-made sofas for the same prices as Ikea, which I was originally going to shop at until I realized that I prefer comfort to looks, and also that as far as looks go, I don't actually like the modern and/or Scandinavian stuff at Ikea, but prefer "American cozy:" darkish wood, plump pillows, and so forth. I have apparently inherited my Grandpa Artie's tastes in home decorating, along with his views on politics and religion. I am typing this on a laptop on his old desk. Anyway, the living room walls are olive green, pale in the morning and dark in the evening. I'm thinking milk chocolate suede (well, sort of-suede) for the loveseat and armchair.
The walls in the bedroom are charcoal, again light in the day and dark at night. I haven't decided what color linens to get. Burgundy, for contrast? Sea-blue?
I am thirty-one years old and this is the first time in my life I've ever bought new furniture. Have you ever bought new furniture? How old were you when you lost your furniture virginity? Do you still have any of it?
I now have a bed and mattress. Yay! Now I need new bed linens-- but more pressingly, I need new bookcases. I took the opportunity of moving and the sale of British, New Zealand, Australian, South African, and Indian rights to Fishes to ditch my old and bought-used and never very nice bookcases, with the idea of buying nice new matching bookcases. (Office Depot seems the best bet: nice-looking natural wood, not too expensive, and they deliver.) But since I haven't done that yet, I now have something like fifty boxes of books scattered about the living room and office. (I kept the low set of bookcases that go under the windows, so I managed to unpack most of the boxes in the bedroom.)
I need to get the books into the bookcases before I can buy a sofa, or there will be nowhere to put the sofa. I'm going to buy a loveseat and matching armchair from a local place that does custom-made sofas for the same prices as Ikea, which I was originally going to shop at until I realized that I prefer comfort to looks, and also that as far as looks go, I don't actually like the modern and/or Scandinavian stuff at Ikea, but prefer "American cozy:" darkish wood, plump pillows, and so forth. I have apparently inherited my Grandpa Artie's tastes in home decorating, along with his views on politics and religion. I am typing this on a laptop on his old desk. Anyway, the living room walls are olive green, pale in the morning and dark in the evening. I'm thinking milk chocolate suede (well, sort of-suede) for the loveseat and armchair.
The walls in the bedroom are charcoal, again light in the day and dark at night. I haven't decided what color linens to get. Burgundy, for contrast? Sea-blue?
I am thirty-one years old and this is the first time in my life I've ever bought new furniture. Have you ever bought new furniture? How old were you when you lost your furniture virginity? Do you still have any of it?