The fabric I want is too expensive. Of course! But I haven't totally exhausted all my local more reasonable fabric haunts yet so I'm still on the prowl.
We went out for the first time to look at furniture last night. I was pretty disappointed in what I found. My husband jokes that I get ideas and images in my head that I want that just don't exist anywhere. But at this point in the looking I feel like my options are still wide open and there are so many possibilities of what I could do in the space that I haven't necessarily ruled anything out. Yet it doesn't help because I don't have a clear idea of what I do want either so that the sales associate can help me locate it. I guess I was kind of hoping that I would just see something that made my heart flutter and I would just know that was the piece for me! That actually has happened to me before in the past. Several times, in fact. But that didn't happen this time.
Fortunately our lovely sales associate took us into the back room to look through the books and fabric swatches so that I could see that I had more options than what was just on the floor. I appreciated that. For some reason I thought this particular store didn't do custom pieces ~ I thought my only options were what I was seeing out in the show room. That put a whole new light on my choices. Now I need to get clear on the design lines I want and then we can work on the fabric choices.
But I still don't know what I want yet. Today I will be trolling the internet to find inspiration pictures. And I think I will be pulling some of our old furniture and bookcases into the room temporarily to play with some layout options. {Boy, my husband is going to love that!} I want to actually see more what it would feel like in the space even though the pieces aren't exactly what will end up in the final room.
So that's what I will be up to this weekend.
What are your weekend plans?
Wow, this is such a great position to be in, I think. Everything is possible, nothing has been chosen or decided. Sometimes, as if I, myself am a T1, I have trouble letting go of that space. I resist or put off deciding.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I hope what you end up with pleases you every time you walk into the room, and that you enjoy the rest of the process of finding what you want.
Thank you Jeanine! I hope so too! I really hope those special pieces will jump out and say, "Here I am! Take me home! We belong together!" but if not, I'm sure it will still be a fun process! :D
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