Melissa, Oh!

Category: Style

  • The great stripes fiasco

    So, two of Anil’s living room walls are covered in brick that has been painted white. The third wall was painted off white and the fourth was painted maroon. Walls before: Behind the living room is a nook that Anil had painted orange: All of the other walls in the hallway near the nook were…

  • It’s all about the details

    A few things to note before giving you the big living room reveal after Anil let me play decorator for the past couple of weeks. I gave you the kitchen organizing update a few days ago. There have been a few small updates since then: Anil got rid of his old plates and bowls and…

  • Make your own kind of music

    What’s a redecorating project without art? The only bad thing about working with  me is that I’m a pain in the ass when it comes to art. I like it to be custom. I don’t want someone to walk in my house and say, “Oh, I have that same print!” or “Oh, you got that…

  • Windows to the world deserve a nice frame

    Anil’s aparment window coverings before: Window coverings now: I absolutely love how the curtain rods come from the ceiling. They are from IKEA and the curtains are from World Market. More updates of Anil’s apartment to come!

  • Organizing a kitchen and finding out your friend secretly is a cat person

    Step one of the great Phoenix remodel: Organize the kitchen.   Anil loves to cook and he’s really good at it, so he deserves a kitchen that is easy to work with. And the first few days of the redecorating project were spent window shopping, trying to figure out the official plan for the condo…

  • Bikinis and bathtubs and more toilets for women

    So, the bathroom photos I mentioned a few days ago made it into the collage frame. Here is the frame as a whole:   Here are some close ups of the photos that existed prior to me writing the other day’s post: The Italy photos are less “humorous” and more “unique” – I’m kind of…

  • potty talk

    Because sometimes bathrooms can be a conversation piece. There’s a multi-opening frame in our half bathroom that holds photos of some of the more interesting bathrooms we’ve seen while on various adventures. I love taking photos of neat or unusual or weird things I see in bathrooms (not like that, you sickos). I happened upon…

  • A friend’s house and a very big mess

    So, the brick stripping hasn’t quite gone as planned so far. I’m helping Anil remodel his apartment and the first item on the to-do list was to strip the paint from the brick on the interior walls. Debated hiring a contractor to do the whole thing, then decided it might be best to have a…

  • Friends, shopping, and stripping

    Everyone else is excited about the holidays. I am, too, but I have to confess that as I’m gift shopping I’m also looking ahead to another project. Very soon, I will get to help a friend with one of my favorite things: decorating. Anil is opening his home to me for a couple of weeks so that…

  • Which end is up?

    I feel too frazzled to blog. So much has happened over the past few weeks that I don’t even know where to begin! So, what I’m going to do today is be lame and tell you what I plan to write about. This will organize and un-frazzle me. = My first triathlon race report. Yep,…