random thoughts – Day 1,472 – (Thursday) – less feathery

The home décor and refreshing momentum of the re-feathering of the living room, in which I have most of my suppers, very nearly flowed into the dining room, in which I never eat. The living room curtains were pleasing enough that a different color from the same brand was ordered for the dining room sliders and window.

I like it, but it's time for a change.

There was a moment spent imagining a fresh new look in the dining room as the gray panels that have been in service since I moved in were replaced with a lighter color that played off the pale, barely seafoam green paint on two walls and matching color in the print of the rug. I like the gray panels, but after so much time together, I'm kind of tired of seeing them.

The Aegean colored dining room curtains from the same line as the teal ones, for some strange reason, cost twice as much as the teal. At least they arrived on time, and were waiting on the front step when I arrived home from work on Wednesday. In the words of the character John “Hannibal” Smith of The A Team (played by George Peppard), “I love it when a plan comes together.”

They're even bluer in person.

Except it didn’t. The new curtains are not quite the right color, being more blue than the slightly more green color that I swore I saw in the photos. So close. And just enough off in the color to be so wrong. Sigh. Time to prepare the return request.

But I still want new curtains now that it's in my head, so the search will continue. The affordable curtains I like come in navy, a major color in the current rug, so I could take the opposite approach and go darker. 

This darker scheme might be helpful in blocking the summer sun that beats full force on the deck and sliders (except last summer when it rained all summer). The usual sun situation has caused me to imagine an awning of some sort on the deck, but never in a way that actually happens. Because, well, I imagine a lot of things, and some of them even make it onto the list of home improvements but most of them never happen for a couple reasons.

There is a very rich world inside my head and it includes fascinating things. Wonderous things. Like new rain gutters, awnings over doors, a new shed, new sump pump, new bedroom paint, maybe a pergola, a wildflower garden out front, a small deck at the front door, and so on, and so on. As in, I’d need to be very rich to make it happen, and I wonder how I can make that money happen. Until the rich part settles in, it’s small changes like super affordable curtains.