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interior decorating hell
22 Oct 2004 08:29 ami was really looking forward to going fabric shopping a lot, and we did it yesterday. our couch and chairs were in desperate need of covers.
but the day turned into a total bust as wax and i have fundamentally incompatible color tastes. i'm an interior design maniac: it HAS to be designed; and it has to be brightly colored. she threatened to burn them if i bought aqua curtains, expressed the opinion that jade was the worst abomination of a color ever invented, sneered at a dark appley chartreuse (my absolute favorite color), and said that fine, subtle patterns made her skin crawl, expressing a preference for bold 70s'style flowers.
meanwhile, i have nothing but contempt for decorating with neutral colors and the mousey chickenshit gray-filled colors which i call 'country colors,' and that is exactly what she likes. gray green, specifically, which to me looks like a dying plant.
in the end we had to decide on a brown couch cover, which i think i can hopefully even like, although what i wanted was a white-on-aqua or apple green cotton. and then she said we didn't need curtains, because we already have some. i looked a bit more, but was discouraged, and she had a headache and was trailing around sort of moaning and whimpering at the bolts of neon orange fur.
so we left with nothing, but i'm going to go back and get some curtains--maybe black and white, or maybe this one print with giant polka dots. nothing has as yet been done for the poor bedroom. that's the room where dark curtains are a necessity. we'll have to see what happens.
but the day turned into a total bust as wax and i have fundamentally incompatible color tastes. i'm an interior design maniac: it HAS to be designed; and it has to be brightly colored. she threatened to burn them if i bought aqua curtains, expressed the opinion that jade was the worst abomination of a color ever invented, sneered at a dark appley chartreuse (my absolute favorite color), and said that fine, subtle patterns made her skin crawl, expressing a preference for bold 70s'style flowers.
meanwhile, i have nothing but contempt for decorating with neutral colors and the mousey chickenshit gray-filled colors which i call 'country colors,' and that is exactly what she likes. gray green, specifically, which to me looks like a dying plant.
in the end we had to decide on a brown couch cover, which i think i can hopefully even like, although what i wanted was a white-on-aqua or apple green cotton. and then she said we didn't need curtains, because we already have some. i looked a bit more, but was discouraged, and she had a headache and was trailing around sort of moaning and whimpering at the bolts of neon orange fur.
so we left with nothing, but i'm going to go back and get some curtains--maybe black and white, or maybe this one print with giant polka dots. nothing has as yet been done for the poor bedroom. that's the room where dark curtains are a necessity. we'll have to see what happens.
