Artsy fartsy house part 2
I posted my living room about a year ago, at that point I hadn't done anything worth noting to the downstairs. Since then we've made a few changes and I thought I'd update with the current state of things.


I love our shower curtain way too much. We had the green curtain forever but I recently bought the florafauna shower curtain from urbanoutfitters.com to go with it. It's a very intricate lacy patten of plants and animals.



We rent, so we can't really do a lot of painting or knocking down of walls. But we're trying to make do the best we can with what we have.


I'm an artist, we have some of my stuff up in the bathroom because they're bathroom-themed. The one on the left is "Booty Trap" (it's hard to see in the photo so here is a link) and the one on the right is just called "Tub". I drew it because I love how some faucets look like faces.

I promise this is the only photo that's this blurry.




Florafauna details


Etc


A slightly better shot of the art with some candleholders and our old lantern.


The Raid is in with the hairspray. I have yet to accidentally confuse them and spray it all over my head, but I figure it's only a matter of time.

That box is full of bits and bobs to keep the counter clean. There's also a metal toffee tin shaped like a double decker bus in there that I bought in London. It's full of dental floss.


I got the makeup box secondhand, but I think it was originally from Ikea. I drew the poodle on the wall to go with the vintage poodle lipstick holder. I inherited it from my grandmother and I love how kitschy it is.


Necklace storage. I inherited those big owls from my other grandmother, she collected them. The biggest one is about six inches tall. I usually never wear any jewelry other than necklaces so I have quite a few of them.


We wired speakers into the bathroom from the stereo upstairs so we can play music while we shower if we want.


When we moved in we only had that cheap crappy towel bar, so we bought some nice towel hooks and now the towels hide it.


Our bedroom. We recently bought the bedding, it's made me mad for the combination of blue and brown. I think I want to paint our house those colors when we buy one. We got the nice wooden blinds from World Market.


The big mirror belonged to one of my grandmothers, it's plastic and when I got it it was painted white and gold. I coated it in satin espresso paint and now it looks like it was born there. The smaller mirrors are antique brass and the branchy candleholders came from world market.

We're not fans of the carpet, if we owned and not rented we'd put wood floors in here.




This is the bedroom computer, I kind of messed with this photo in Photoshop to try to make the chair more visible. The computer desk is just cheap plywood and I put the bedskirt over it so it fits with the room. The chair is an old tractor seat on a spring (courtesy of my grandfather). I painted it espresso so it would go with everything else. It's fun to sit on, very sproingy.




Dopey thinks he owns the bed.


We got the lamps from World Market. I love that store. The shades are made of paper snd sticks and the little pullstrings are wooden cubes.


Dopey wants me to get my camera off his bed.


This is the guest room. That curtain is actually made of a vintage sheet. The quilt was sewn by my great grandmother.


The sheets are vintage, the bedspread and deer lamp are from Urban Outfitters. It's kind of sad but I think between Urban Outfitters and World Market I could probably decorate my dream home.


The boxer is hiding behind the door. I drew him in high school and he needs a frame like ten years ago. Oops!


Close up of the curtain. It's kind of a peachy orange with coral flower petals.


This painting awaits you at the bottom of the stairwell. The bedrooms and bathroom in my house are actually downstairs, the living room and kitchen are upstairs. The house is built into a hill.


Paintings in the stairwell. On the left is "Self Portrait with Euphemisms" and on the right is "Jessica in Hell".


I love the mini suit of armor that lives on our first landing.


You see these immediately when you open the front door. I like how the two hands sort of work together, like the person was clasping them and then opened them to you with palms out.


Dingis' favorite spot is right below them. He's grumpy because I woke him up.


This is the entry area. My purse and keys live on a couple of vintage end tables.


The dining area is essentially unchanged since last time, we've just changed out some of the art that's hanging and we've got a lot more plants.


Our table has a new center bit. Two of those white birds are salt shakers from target, the two in the figurine are antique ones from my grandma's house. I strongly suspect that Target has broken into my grandma's house and stolen her old knicknacks as ideas for saltshakers.

The copycats.


I think I didn't show this last time, the mini green wall. That clock is always wrong by exactly 18 minutes.


The living room is a bit different. We have a different lamp and a Wii by the computer, we still watch tv on that big projector screen over the window. We got a second couch (it had been living at our computer shop but we moved locations and didn't need it there any more. We were going to Craigslist it, but it kind of goes, so we left it). The coffee table (Ikea) is new too.


I made that poster above the new couch for my old job. You can also see the projector in this one. We put a little fabric skirt over the hardware that holds it to the ceiling because otherwise it's a bit intimidating to look at.


Pillow on the left was grandma's, pillow on the right was purchased yesterday. If I had my way I'd probably have at least 20 more as I'm pillow-mad.


Slightly better view of the poster.


Books. Like so much else in the house a lot of these are from my grandparents' houses. There are some exceedingly old ones here, original Bobsey Twins and Nancy Drew, a book about T-squares from the late 1800s.

My favorite is the book from about 1917 entitled "Operas Every Child Should Know". I don't know any of them.

This is where the Vonnegut lives too. I don't have many books, we got rid of hundreds a few years ago and only kept things we really wanted to re-read. I kept all the Vonnegut.


Plants. I'm trying to be better at keeping them, I don't have a green thumb at all. I planted a whole pot of basil a couple of weeks ago and so many little sproutlings came up but they all died last week. I was quite disgusted.

I spray the plants with lemon juice because otherwise the cats eat them. It doesn't seem to do any harm (or any more than constant nibbling would). I made that little skull and lizard. The thing on the wall is our wireless internet router.


fishbowl with odds and ends. That thing on the left is a "quarter pounder" (my Great Uncle Gene thinks visual puns like that are hilarious). You can see just the tail of our betta fish, Chompy. His bowl has scary fighting dragon bookends on either side. The husband used to have lots of little dragons but we've gotten rid of the rest of them. We keep these because I think it's funny.


A better view of the dragons. Look out, Chompy!


This is my art corner. It's a bit messy at the moment since I'm in the middle of a painting. Better shots of it can be found at my previous saucydwellings post.


We covered our kitchen cabinets in faux tooled-leather wallpaper. We covered them in contact paper first so it can be removed without hurting the cabinets.

Our landlord just about shat himself when he saw it, but then we showed how it can be removed and he calmed down.


I love old coppery sculptures. The ones up top are actually music boxes. The little french cafe one at the bottom gets used as a dish scrubby holder. The goblets are inherited from grandma like so much else.




My favorite painting lives above the espresso machine.


Pot lid storage and a couple photos.


These were grandma's too, I adore them. If you put the soap in just right it looks like their tongue.

That's it for now, I hope you enjoyed!