will I end up using the whole 6 weeks break from uni to do a crazy amount of home improvements and work and just end up burning myself out before the next term even starts? Absolutely 🥲
If I may take some time from your day, there is a very big problem I would Like to address.
Minimalism and Modernism working in tandem.
Because oH my fucking god it's so fucking bland. It's nice every now and then, but oh my god if I see one more goddamn "home makeover" that turns a beautiful rustic building into a Black White Brushed Steel and Dark Gray hellscape I am going to commit a crime.
WHERES THE PERSONALITY!
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE"S CLUTTER? THE KNICK KNACKS?
If you say you are gonna stick them anywhere than the fuckoing shelves/bedside tables or dressers or wardrobes Im kicking your ass.
What about the fucking novelty magnets you get on trips at gas stations and landmarks? Cause I know you aren't gonna ruin the "colors palette" of your kitchen - which by the way will look 1000% worse the second dust settles - by sticking them on your Fridge!
My Dad has a beautiful, powerful, large set of speakers, each one weighs about 200 pounds and are a pain in the ass to move, but they really are beautiful, Clear varnish, dark, wood grain bodies, and they sound incredible.
When (hopefully a long time from now) My dad passes, if whoever gets those speakers decides to sell them for something new I'm, kicking their ass.
My dresser is one I've had since I was literally a couple years old, and it has some stickers on it. Old coffee shop stickers, some stickers from City festivals and the like, and someone suggested I get a new one. I asked them why and they said it was old and kind of cluttered, so obviously i responded with "Well it still works, and I don't mind it" But RIGHT NOW i'm like "Actually it looks great. I like the stickers. Infdact I like the stickers so much I 'm gonna plaster Everything IN stickers! TOO MANY STICKERS IM GONNA MAKE COMBUSTIBLE STICKERS AND BURN YOUR GODDAMN HOUSE DOWN"
FUCK MINIMALISM. REJECT MODERNITY.
I STAND WITH THE GAUCHE AND THE GAUDY. I STAND WITH THE RUSTIC AND OLD FASHIONED.
GIVE LAMPS WITH ETCHING AND WEIRD RIMS ON THE GLASS.
GIVE ME YOUR BRUSHED NICKEL AND THE ANTIQUE BRASS. I'LL TAKE THAT PEPPER MILL WITHTHE BENT HANDLE, IT STILL FUCKING WORKS!
IF THERE ARE A MILLION PEOPLE AGAINST MINIMALISM i AMWITH THEM.
IF THERE ARE A HUNDRED PEOPLE AGAINST MINIMALISM I STAND WITH THEM
IF THERE IS ONE MINIMALISM HATER I AM AGAINST THE WORLD.
IF THERE ARE NO MINIMALISM HATERS LEFT IAM FUCKING DEAD.
I. CANNOT. STAND. THE DIRECTION FUCKING 'INTERIOR DESIGN' IS GOOING.
YEAH, like i'm gonna fucking kill anything that makes my house appealing to look like every other schmuck on the block. how about you find something you enjoy other than conformity or i'm gonna fill your house with salt from my little pinch bowl i got from a friend's mom that was gonna throw it away, because I plan on driving the fucking demons of blandness from your home.
If you present your house like it's a clean dish to serve food you bet your fucking ass i'm gonna salt and season it.
PLease. Just throw some color and personality in some way other than false flowers or fake fruit.
A purple blanket. Photos in a portrait you picked up at a garage sale.
Since I don’t have anyone to share this with, I’mma share it with tumblr
My fiancé and I are going to be moving into our own house!! Within the month!
I’ve got a lot of big feelings about it…My dad is buying it for us. We are beyond grateful for it because we would have never been able to on our own. The only thing I’m disliking about the situation is how it feels like something they can hold over our heads. My parents are the type to blow the smallest shit out of proportion. It’s a very uneasy feeling…feeling that the slightest upset to them will make them rethink doing this for us.
It’s really more of a rent to own situation. We’ll be paying my parents $500 a month for 6 years, but after that we own it.
The decision to buy us a house was apparently a spontaneous decision. They knew someone who wanted my dad to fix up the house so they could sell it, but my dad just went “I’ll just buy it instead”
I’m super nervous but also really excited. Our own house. “Landlord” is my dad. I know he can and will fix any issues in the house.
I just hate the feeling of being indebted to someone. What could we possibly do to show how much this means to us? How much we really appreciate it…
Need to regroup again. This Tumblr blog is like my mini mental reset. A place to just kind of stop, reflect, and organize my thoughts.
Oh guess what! I finished rehanging the kitchen cupboard above the fridge! I'm so proud of myself for breaking down something I thought was going to be really hard into smaller manageable steps. It was still a little hard but taking it one step at a time made it realistically achievable.
So here's before and after applying the drywall filler. Lol, I bet you can't tell the difference. There wasn't much to fill.
Here are some close-up shots. (Ok, the red stuff is not dried blood. It was the colour the kitchen was painted when I moved in. Ikr.)
The putty is pink but turns white when it's dry. Neat, huh?!
Next, I painted with primer (which I got for free from my local Buy Nothing group 👍). Then with my favourite white paint colour, Mountainpeak White. It's a neutral-warm white that I use all over the house. It's the white of, like, table cream.
(Yeah, the tape was an afterthought. I didn't really need it because the cupboard would be covering the part where white meets green, but I realized when applying the primer that maybe I didn't know where to stop painting and needed a guide, lol).
This was all the easy part. The hard part was mounting the cupboard. First, I needed to build a "structure" to hold it up. This is why I needed the milk crates I was using as a book shelf in my bedroom!
And the cupboard in all its well-hung glory! (😂)
Oh shoot! I'm outta photo space again! I'll have to show you the well-hung glory next post.
In the meantime, here's my updated to-do list. Currently, I'm stuck at filling out eye surgery forms. I know why I'm stuck. It's asking me about previous surgeries and I'm not sure what to put. Is the procedure I had before a "surgery"? What was it called and when did I have it? I don't remember and I can't find paperwork about it. Is it really that important to put down? Ugh 😩 I know I should just put down "procedure to remove suspicious growth" (it wasn't cancerous and it wasn't a cyst, I know this for sure.) And then just put down the year (2019?) And be done with it. If they want more specific details I'll have to get it from my doctor, I guess. I wish I knew WHY they need to know this. Do they want to know whether I have ever been put under? Do they want to know if I've ever had major surgery? What do they want to know?? If they had given me the forms when I arrived at my consultation instead of when I was leaving, I might have been able to ask someone my questions during the almost 3 hours I was sitting in the waiting room 🙄.
Running to-do list:
Hang cabinet. ✓
Figure out how to hang cabinet. ✓
Build scaffold. ✓
Get milk crates. ✓
Remove dog crate. ✓
Remove stuff from milk crates. ✓
Remove everything from under kitchen sink and check for leaks. ✓
Gmail account sign in.
Buy new charger for Pixel phone.
Transfer e-gift card to Amazon account. ✓
Check Web Perspectives point balance. ✓
Cash in Web Perspectives points for Amazon e-gift card. ✓
Transfer Web Perspectives Amazon e-gift card to Amazon account.
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