Behind the Couch Feelings

Do you have one of those rooms in your home that you just aren’t sure how to decorate?  Yeah, me too. 

That room is our office.  It continues to baffle me.  It’s the only room left on our main level that needs a loving decorating touch.

Here’s what it looks like currently…

Well, minus the curtains. They went to live with my parents because there was just too much ivory going on in the room. You live.  You learn.  The parents did give me life so it was only fair they get my hand me down curtains.

I think we are going to purchase the Karl sectional (the smallest version available) from Ikea.  My brother purchased it and it’s comfy.  This room doesn’t get a ton of use but we would like to use it a little more for lounging and a semi-inexpensive sectional seems like a good fit.

I think I’ve decided that I actually like the wall color.  My laziness may be working it’s magic on my brain too.  I can’t tell for sure.  How do you feel about it?

My biggest conundrum now is what to put behind the couch…or soon to be sectional.

I ponder this space while running 30 minutes three times per week.  I’ve got nothing.  That’s 90 minutes per week for the past 4 months and no ideas.  Okay, fine…probably more like 30 minutes of pondering per week. The other 60 minutes are focusing on not dying.  But still.  (I highly recommend decorating rooms while you run.  It’s amazing how fast the time flies.  Seriously.)

There’s art.  But what kind of art?  I like things to have a purpose.  A map would be an obvious choice but that seems a little themey to me.  I had pondered some kind of word art but word art can turn cheesy real quick like.  And what word?  I thought about shelves with photos but I want something a little unique. 

Maybe I just need to run more.

What are your thoughts?  What’s your go-to behind the couch solution? Help!  Share those genius ideas! 

Do you have a room that needs help that you would like Décor and the Dog readers to assist you with?  E-mail me at decorandthedog (at) gmail.com. 

Our Kitchen and Blogging

Alternate title: Our Kitchen Tile Progress and Why I’ll Never Be a Big Blogger

You may want to sit down for this one.  Seriously.  We started a house project.  Our kitchen backsplash to be exact.  This may be our first major project in almost a year. 

We started yesterday and didn’t get as far as we would have liked.  Tile saw issues, measuring issues.  Most of you know how that goes.  But so far.  We are loving it. We hope to have it done by next week. If you tell me you hate it, I’ll sucker punch you.

Which brings me to my next topic…..why I’ll never be a big blogger.

1. I want to apologize to those that we offended with the YouTube video link that we posted last week.  I’m not sorry that we posted it but I am sorry that I didn’t put a warning.  I honestly forget the number of people that read this blog.  I don’t really care so much about pleasing others with this blog..as in, what kind of content I post but I don’t want to offend others…unless it’s with paint colors or fabric swatches.  I’ve been offended by some paint colors out there.  I get it.  We don’t think suicide is funny. I lost two classmates in high school from suicide.  I didn’t watch the video all of the way through and Nate isn’t easily offended.  We just thought the original principle was funny.  We will warn you about potential poor choices in the sense of humor department in the future.  The end.

2.  I haven’t completed a larger house project in almost a year.  The shame.  And lack of motivation.

3. I posted an in-progress photo of my kitchen.  The horror.  I did add a fun filter.  I get hipster blogger points for that though, right?

4. I threatened to sucker punch my readers.

5.  There are no bottles of Pellegrino on my kitchen…even in the progress shot.  What kind of blogger am I?

Have you been suffering from project lulls?  What’s holding your back from big blogger fame?  You always have Pellegrino out on your counters, right?

Diggin’ It

It’s Friday.  Beautiful, beautiful Friday.  Don’t you just love Friday?  Me too.

Here’s what we are diggin’ this week.

1. World Market's Yarrow Curtains:  It’s a really stinking good thing that we don’t have a World Market in our town.  Seriously.  I am, however, headed to the land of World Market this week-end and these beauties may be coming home with me.  If I don’t hate them in person.  Which is always a good possibility.

2. BB Daily Deals:  Rachel's mom has opened an on-line boutique called BB Daily Deals.  Sign up and you will receive e-mails regarding two deals per week.  I hear the selection is going to be great… cute boutique clothing and accessories to seasonal home décor to adorable kitchen items.  This week’s deals were the cute key fobs above and adorable seasonal garland.  Be sure to sign up here!

3. The Color Run:  I am running The Color Run tomorrow with some friends from back home and Nate’s sister.  The Color Run’s slogan is that it’s the “Happiest 5K on the Planet”.  The only rule is that you start with a white shirt.  You can walk, run, or dance your way to the finish.  At each kilometer, you are blitzed with color.  I. Can’t. Wait.

1.  Baby by Summer of Tears: **Warning:  This video has some sensitive material. If you’re easily offended, please skip!**   Nate showed this YouTube video to me last week-end. Mascara was running.  We both about peed our pants.  It’s about how these new parents feel more prepared to have children because of their dog.  Good stuff.

2. Photo Editor by Aviary: Nate thinks this app has better options to get you better photos on your phone.  There are more fine tuning options.  (That’s all I could get out of him.  Seriously, this series is liking pulling teeth.)

1. Self Portraits. Ike’s loving photos of himself this week.  There are no issues with self esteem and our furry friend.  I think this high level of self love comes from hearing “I love your dog”, “That’s the cutest dog ever”, “I’m going to steal your dog” on our nightly walks.  Oh, Ike.

What are you diggin’ this week?  Have you ran The Color Run? What’s your favorite phone photo app? Does your dog like looking at himself in the mirror too?