Designing

So, well, my brother and his wife picked up some furniture and paint and other such decorative items today. Boy did it make me envious. I mean, I really want a house of my own. And some new furniture.

So then when we were checking out paint and such, well, I started picking up all the little paint pamphlets. You know the ones. With pretty pictures of perfectly decorated rooms. Oh, how my heart began to yearn and long and such. I want my own house!

I can see the library. One wall of books, straight books lined up on my cherry wood shelves, all the way up the vaulted ceiling. And there is even a little ladder. You know the kind. The ones that go up the bookshelves so that you can reach up for your pretty books that go all the way up to the tippy top of the wall. And there is this beautiful couch I love from Restoration Hardware. It's off-white and velvety and has lovely soft blue throw pillows and blankets in shades of tan and brown. Oh, and the walls are brick...exposed brick painted a deep brown. Oh they are pretty walls with pretty pictures of photographs taken by Kevin Miller...of old dilapidated buildings and such. And there is some funky lighting...like the chandeliers in IKEA.

And there is my office. It's all white except for the dark hardwood floors. And there is lots and lots of natural light streaming in all around because of the windows...lots of them. And the walls are covered by more photos - large photos of the desert - again by Kevin Miller. And I'm sitting there at my white desk in my white chair and I'm typing away, working on my latest manuscript for a book. It's so soothing in my white room.

Then when I go to bed, I lay down in my pretty black four poster bed. With it's white and royal blue bedspread - maybe with a toile pattern or leaves or something. And my little yellow chaise lounge sits in a corner, a royal blue throw tossed over it casually. And there are pictures of Paris and London and Rome on the walls...all in black and white. My shelves hold sparkly knick-knacks and signs that say "Keep Calm and Carry One" and books.

Can't you just see it? Oh, I can, I can. And I want it so so so much!