Since everyone is STILL asleep here-- I think I'll go Webwandering again. I have yet to find something to wear to the second night of the party; I have on a flannel nightgown at the moment. Indecisive is my middle name.
I am having the backsplashes tiled in the kitchen next week. And have to pick a few decorative tiles- well- I don't HAVE to- I suppose I could just do all white, but over the stove would be so boring, and the lady said, it's all the rage to put a decorative tile scene over the range (the RANGE?) I thought, ok, how hard could picking out a tile design be?Well, let me tell you.
It's very hard.
I went to Home Expo and couldn't believe what they do to kitchens!!
They create WORLDS. WHere everything matches. They have kitchens that look like Tuscany, with wines and grapes hanging from the cabinets. ANd cannister sets that look like grape clusters. And stoves set into recesses that are made to look like old fireplaces with mantels over them. Regression. How weird. Refrigerators that a family of four could live in. ONe kitchen was all burnished steel or something-- like being inside a spaceship. AWful.
ANyway, I found the tile section-- and a simple tile picture of a vase of flowers was 369.00. FOr like 8 tiles.
I could probably hire Van Gogh for that.
Why do people LIKE doing this stuff? All these decisions to make! But people do. I know. I was in a lovely home the other night, and the woman proudly showed me her newly redecorated guest bath. It was so perfect! I admired the two prints over the sink and she said, "Oh, I soaked them in tea- they were too white looking. I wanted them to look more antique. So I unframed them, and matched the tea shade to the sponge print paint on the walls."
I NEVER would have thought of that. ANd I most certainly wouldn't have done it. I was so impressed. I think.
I thought I was doing good to have a towel in the guest bathroom that was clean.
She has started a business. SHe contracts with realtors to go into homes on the market and tell the people what they need to change to make it more appealing.
I'm NEVER inviting her to my house. She would weep at the cellophane tape all over the chairs that keep the cats from scratching. ONly it doesn't -- they just find someplace else on them to scratch. I know the sight of the mismatched chair in the den would send her into a grand mal seizure.
I told Dan we had to drive into Dallas today to look for decorative tiles. He's excited.
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