Interior Re-Decorating

Hello Strangers! In lieu of the extreme heat waves we've been having, my resulting unwillingness to put any effort into making decent outfits, and the fact that my camera had been MIA, I've been a bit out of it the last week. My dad finally found my camera in the backseat of his car, so I've got that back now, and thought I'd jump back in with a re-decorating post. The weather is also GORGEOUS now, and hopefully will stay that way all week, so there may be an outfit post or two coming up.

This week I've found myself bitten by the decorating bug. I'm going to assume it's because my body knows that this time of year means going back to school, moving apartments, etc, and because we're actually staying in our apartment for another year, I need to do SOMETHING to fill my urge to decorate/rearrange. This started with a complete closet clean out that needs just a little more work, and has progressed into me wanting to completely redo my bathroom. I'm really just wanting to give it a little more of a "grown up" feel, and I based the whole plan around these votive holders from Crate and Barrel ($1.50), along with these little jars I now have filled with green and blue food colored bath salts (I think they were around $5 for three of them). Yeah, I mean literally came up with this entire plan JUST because those two votives happened to be the closest to the register and caught my eye.


I got around to putting up a floating shelf ($20 at Target) and have most of the linens picked out, I just need to actually buy them and get it all together. I still can't decide whether I'll do a neutral rug with green and blue towels, or green or blue rug with neutral towels and the other color as an accent. That will probably be a last minute decision, but here's how it has progressed so far.




While I was at Target on my little re-decorating binge, I came across these sheer black curtains (I've been wanting these FOREVER!) for only $5 each, and decided it was finally time to put curtains in my room. I have NEVER in my life had curtains, much to my dismay growing up in an east facing bedroom, but now that I do I absolutely love them!!! I feel like it just makes my room seem so much more pulled together. It's extra nice that today's weather is so gorgeous allowing me to have the window open and the curtains flowing in the breeze!




Anyone else out there been struck by any sort of home decorating bug lately? Or is there anyone who WANTS to redo a room and just doesn't have any idea what to do with it? You know I love that kind of thing and would love to throw out some ideas. ;-) I can only hope there's a career in it for me somewhere down the line!