{"id":816,"date":"2010-12-01T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=816"},"modified":"2010-12-01T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T18:00:44","slug":"home-decor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squealermusic.com\/madclips\/wordpress2\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Home D\u00e9cor"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you know me at all, you know I’m a little challenged when it comes to aesthetics \u2014 so much so that I called my friend Frank<\/a> from the futon store and made him choose the color of wood for the frame. My husband and I purchased said futon because we couldn’t commit to a couch. We figured with a futon we could just change the cover when I inadvertently picked one that would drive us crazy four weeks out. <\/p>\n

When we had our house painted before we moved in, the painter refused to use the colors I’d picked for the dining room.
\n“I have a nice yellow,” he said.
\n“But what about this? Don’t you think this one would be nice?” I flapped the gray color swatch like a wing.
\n “I have a nice blue,” he said.
\nI finally just let him pick whichever colors he wanted, and now I am saved from eating dinner every night in a room that looks like it’s awaiting a thunderstorm. (Note: This is just one reason that I’m not illustrating my own picture books. The other reason is that I can’t draw.)<\/p>\n

So this gives me all the more reason to celebrate the two decorating breakthroughs I had in November.<\/p>\n

Breakthrough No. 1: This kitchen island thingie we got at IKEA<\/a> to keep my husband and I from warring over our nonexistent counter space. Cost: $100. It’s called the FORHOJA, and when I was putting it together I thought IKEA should name it (and possibly the rest of its products) FUBAR instead. I’m happy with the final result, though.
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\nAnd No. 2: I finally found curtains for my kitchen. Technically, these are dish towels from Crate and Barrel. I cut and sewed and resewed. I’m not sure they’re 100 percent the way I want them, but naturally when I went back to Crate and Barrel to get more, they’d sold out. Final cost: $20, because I did have enough sense to buy four. If I’d been a better seamstress, I could have made these curtains for 10 bucks.
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\nI suppose this doesn’t have a whole lot to do with writing, unless you count the fact that those of us who write are often pretty thrifty, not by choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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