House Progress and Mila's Room

This is why I've been MIA for a week. When I saw the movers show up with 8 massive crates, I thought "maybe I have too much shit." but at least half of that turned out to be packing paper. I still have too much shit, but the movers went way overboard. Everything was wrapped in paper. They wrapped pieces of notepaper in paper.

But anyway, the flooring is done, never mind that we don't have any baseboard moldings up yet.

First project (after baseboards) is my little girl Mila's room. I asked her what color she wanted and she said purple.

Of course she picked purple.

Sorry purple-lovers, but I generally hate purple.

Whatever, challenge accepted.

I'm thinking Olympic's 'Laughing Lilac' which might read a little blue, but is definitely purple, trust me.

With a little something like this:

 

These guys I found on eBay will be there (they're big):

And an ebonized, cerused oak dresser, similar to Schumacher's Barclay Chest:

As for the living room, we have a massive wall in a big open room that I need to fill. I'm redoing the zodiac constellation gallery, but this time much, much bigger. I'm adding more prints, and having them printed larger. There were 12 pieces before, each about 16 x 20"...This time I'm sizing up to 20 x 30" prints, and possibly doubling the size of the gallery to 24 prints. This mother is going to be huge. People are going to freak out. Maybe I'll be the only one freaking out, but freak outs will happen.

I'll be sharing more plans next post. They involve a built-in bar and the color mauve.