Melissa, Oh!

Tag: decorating

  • 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…

  • Redecorating, reorganizing and other people’s mail

    So, I’ve been in Phoenix helping Anil to redecorate his condo. And it’s been so much fun – and so much work! For the first few days, we were still finalizing the “look” we wanted to go for. If you recall, I gave a proposal here as to what I thought we should go for. The…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • You are getting very sleepy …

    On occasion I’ve been showing you different rooms in my house, and how they’ve been decorated (so far. Is a house ever really done?) So far you’ve seen my closet and my hallways. Now let me show you the bedroom … but not my bedroom, that’ll come later. This is the guest bedroom. In this room,…

  • Skeletons in my closet

    I’ve done plenty of writing about how I’ve helped Chris decorate his place, but I haven’t written much about my own house. That’s mostly because the decorating was mostly done before I started this blog, but it is certainly not anywhere close to done yet! So, without further adieu, here is an inside look at…

  • Skeletons in my closet

    I’ve done plenty of writing about how I’ve helped Chris decorate his place, but I haven’t written much about my own house. That’s mostly because the decorating was mostly done before I started this blog, but it is certainly not anywhere close to done yet! So, without further adieu, here is an inside look at…

  • How to really impress your friend on his birthday

    If you read this blog regularly you know I’ve been helping Chris decorate his apartment in Athens, Ga. I’ll pause to pat myself (and him! He’s the willing participant!) on the back by showing you a before picture (which I just came across; you haven’t seen this before): Before he let me do my thing.…

  • How to really impress your friend on his birthday

    If you read this blog regularly you know I’ve been helping Chris decorate his apartment in Athens, Ga. I’ll pause to pat myself (and him! He’s the willing participant!) on the back by showing you a before picture (which I just came across; you haven’t seen this before): Before he let me do my thing.…

  • Getting a roommate at age 30

    Jeff and I used to live in a much smaller house. It was a 3-bedroom rental, and it was built in the 1960s so the rooms were small. Between our two offices and our bedroom, it was a full house. We didn’t let that stop us from having parties – every weekend the house was…

  • Getting a roommate at age 30

    Jeff and I used to live in a much smaller house. It was a 3-bedroom rental, and it was built in the 1960s so the rooms were small. Between our two offices and our bedroom, it was a full house. We didn’t let that stop us from having parties – every weekend the house was…

  • A goof with the curtains

    Anyone who’s been reading my blog this past week knows I’ve been in Athens, Ga., helping Chris decorate his apartment. I mentioned in yesterday’s post that there was a concern with one of the items. When we were at West Elm in Atlanta, we found these great window panels on sale for $29 apiece. Our…

  • Chris’ apartment update

    Shopping is so much fun when you’re spending someone else’s money. It’s even more fun when the someone else has total trust in your taste and ability to coordinate pieces and find the right prices. I’ve been in Athens, Ga., this week helping Chris decorate his apartment. As you’ll see from my previous post, we got…

  • Decorating Chris’ apartment

    Shower curtain, which we are using as a color palatte for the apartment. My friend Chris has asked me to help him decorate his apartment, a task in which I have wholeheartedly taken on. I love shopping, I love decorating and I love spending money (especially his money!) Another great piece to this is that…