House: Phase 1

We've been trying to make our apartment a little more like a home and a little less like a dorm room. We searched Target, Kohls, Macy's, and overstock.com trying to find a slip cover for our couch that was a little less...bold...than the original fabric. Target was the winner, in Stretch Ribbed Blue Steel.

After finding the right cover, I poured through my supply of interior design books trying to figure out good color schemes and furniture arrangements for our new condo (14 days until the move!). It's a little embarrassing, but I actually hunted down the condo floor plan and made a model of the condo in PowerPoint with scaled furniture pieces to figure out furniture arrangements and colors.

So after all that, I went to Joann's fabrics and got our accent colors - let's hear it for dark blue and canary yellow - for pillows. Luckily I can sew somewhat straight lines, so the pillows turned out okay. Don't look too closely at one of the yellow ones, or you'll notice that one of the corners is skewed. Still working on those straight lines. One of my few memories of 6th grade includes my Home Ec teacher scolding me for pressing the peddle to hard on my sewing machine. I was making a pink pig pillow case.

Up next in House: Darling Dove, Champagne Waltz, or Puffy Shirt - which off-white is right for me? and Selling leftover wedding gifts on craigslist to augment our home budget