Instant updates
I don't know if any of you guys are like me in the patience department or I should say lack of patience department but when I start reworking a room I want to find everything instantly, like in 5 minutes. I want it decorated in 10 minutes and furnished in 5. Take my new bedroom everything has to be purchased from scratch since I had nothing in the old one, rugs, chairs, coffee tables, bed linen, throws, consoles, lamps its an exhaustive list and should be fun except I am on deadline. Flinging the doors of my house open for the new school opening end of April means I can't very well have a half furnished room, I've gotta practice what I preach right? So the pressure is on, last night I flung, literally flung the god dam paint striper at the wall, I had been at my desk since 5.30 (normal start time I hate to say) and at 7 that evening striping decades old paint off of skirting boards caused a bit of a major wobble in this household!
Calm was restored (whisky and pizza basically) and now itâs a new day. All of this got me to thinking what can we do instantly to change our spaces, when I say instantly I mean of course in the space of a few hours. Couple of pretty transformative things, one of which I tried for the new TV show (airing tomorrow night C4 8pm Get Your House in Order). That is painting mouldings onto a room that lacks any sort of architectural detail. Its a fab way to add interest plus if you are in an art rut even better as you don't really need any art so cool it looks. Second idea paint, if you paint a room, hell even one wall a darker shade it utterly transforms a space, infact its the most transformative thing you can do to a room.
Easy hey makes me wonder why more people are not doing it, but shall save that campaign for another day I have to reserve all energy for the darn bedroom later today.
See what IÂ mean, its such a simple idea but so very effective.
Oddly enough I am not a fan of green walls, always have a tendency to want to make them inkier and darker like the colour of stagnant water in an old pond but hey everyone's tastes are different and this works for sure.
Happy Wednesday