We moved back in January and have finally settled in/put enough stuff away to start the decorating phase! Truthfully, I've never really decorated anything before - our old apartment's style was "We'll Worry About It When We're Married", which, if you're not familar with this, mainly consists of all of the crap two people have from college and grad school all in one apartment. Our mantra was
wait for the bridal shower and we had grand ideas of
"When we get married...". Then we got engaged. Then we got married. Then we came back from our honeymoon and we were like "Oh crap, we're adults now". Minus all of the very fancy china/silverware/high thread count sheets (thank you for all of the bridal shower gifts!!!!!), we're still the same old Katie and Ryan. And to think, someone is going to let us leave the hospital with a child one day (not in the next few months, Mom). So bizarro.
But I digress. What I'm really trying to say is that I've spent the last few weeks trying to come up with some cohesive plan for each room so our new townhouse gives off the impression that we're adults. First up... the bedroom. Everything in there looks pretty good, but there's something missing. We don't have a headboard and our bed looks sort of sad against the middle of the white bedroom wall.
I'm thinking I can liven things up a little with a well placed vinyl monogram, but (as usual) I can't decide. I've narrowed it down to three, all from
Vinyl Vineyard... first we'll take a look at my choices:
Monogram A:
Monogram B:
Monogram C:
And now we'll take a look at my vast empty wall:
Wow, that's depressing. Maybe I do need a headboard. I swear it doesn't look that sad in real life - and yes that's a Build-A-Bear bunny. Ryan made it for me before we both left for grad school, so let's pretend you aren't laughing about it and don't even throw that "let's be adults" thing back in my face. Let's also pretend that I didn't get the side tables at Kroger (yes, the grocery store) in Indiana for $9.99 each. Although, to be fair, we've had them now for 4 years and they continue to serve their purpose. So maybe the joke's on you if you spent more than $10 on bed tables. But back to the no headboard situation - it's pathetic. Just so you don't think I live in a little jail cell (with my white walls and no pictures), here's a picture of what you'd see if you had the pleasure of standing in the doorway of the bedroom:
OK, a headboard would really tie this all together... but I don't have $400 so we're going with the monogram. So, if you had white walls and couldn't paint (damn you, Rent!!), which monogram would you go with?
