My new thing

I'm now on this new house kick. Like...finding a house. I'm actually watching HGTV. This is sooo weird to me because I would never ever watch those shows. Not even trading spaces or anything like that. UGH I found them sooo boring. But now I watch shows like Property Virgins where people are buying their first homes. I can live vicariously through them and also learn what goes into getting a house. It also helps me look at the big picture. It doesn't have to be perfect.

Last night, in my sleep, I began to think about..ok..whats my design style? If I could design my house and money was no object, how would I do it. I'm having a hard time with that because its so overwhelming to me. I've never designed any of my living quarters. I've just always lived in the space given to me. I had my knick knacks or my pictures and such but to decorate an entire room...thats like wow. That's big.

And whats worse is that ed is a boxes for furniture type of guy. He'll live with box furniture and be perfectly happy. So he's no help to me. The most I can ask from him is to not stand in my way because I know that if I do a good job in decorating our future home, he'll be happy to live in it. He, like everyone else, feels great being in a nicely decorated and well kept place,he just doesn't know anything about how to make it that way. I'm trying to come up with a game plan. So that when that day comes I won't be so overwhelmed. To me its like....wow..I can't imagine spending all this money on all this accent furniture thats just for looks. Like things on the wall or bowls with pebbles in it, that sort of thing. But its part of the big picture. I think I will need help from people with a knack for that sort of thing. Maybe my cousin Juani.

The thing I know for sure is that I want to paint the walls. I'm SO SICK of white walls! ugh! It's been, going back to college, 7 yrs of white walls and I'm fucking sick of it. Painted walls make the place look so much warmer. Maybe a light tan color. It would look great with my chocolate couch and my curtains. I plan on getting another brown leather couch ,a love seat, to accompany this one. I think my taste is modern but....I don't know the design terms. lol. but..i'll say this. Not huge ornate chunky pieces, not ultra modern ikea type stuff thats light and thin, but somewhere in the middle. I actually just looked up a Home Decor site that tells you all the diff design styles so I'm gonna go do my homework.

*Update*
Upon looking through all the styles I think the one closest to my style is Transitional style. Here's what the site says about it:

"Transitional style is a marriage of traditional and contemporary furniture, finishes, materials and fabrics equating to a classic, timeless design. Furniture lines are simple yet sophisticated featuring either straight lines or rounded profiles. Fabric can range from graphic patterns on overstuffed sofas to textured chenilles on sleek wood frames."