Just A Little Moment of Honesty
Ok, so maybe that post title is a little dramatic. But you guys. I am feeling a little stressed and would love to air all of the laundry that I have piled up. If that is ok?
Blogging room makeovers in Real Time is sort of hard for me. Some of you may remember my Master Bedroom that stopped cold turkey? (this is where we left off)
Well, I didn’t just stop blogging it, I stopped working on it. I just didn’t love the direction that it was going and had a few other projects that were pulling me away. So I painted the wall white and gave the headboard a coat of navy spray paint and haven’t worried about it again. It has become a makeshift studio for shooting projects on a blank background. (So I guess that I am *technically still real timing it, since I have done nothing.) I haven’t shot it, but you can see what it looks like from the BHG shoot for DIY Magazine and Flea Market Style.
I have a sense of security working on a room behind the scenes and then showing you the process after. Sometimes (um..every time) it gets a little hairy. I tend to be more of a doer than a planner. If I think that a paint color is going to be awesome, then I try it. If I hate it then I repaint it. You guys see glimpses of it (like here and here) but I have the after to show you how great it turned out and that makes it ok. Like there is a method to the madness, but to be honest, sometimes the method is try everything until you find something that you love.
For this reason (and a few others) the Nugget is giving me extra stress.
Maybe because its a one time deal? If I can’t use all of the ideas that I have in a room, its ok because there will always be another room. But there will not always be another Nugget. I want it to be phenomenal.
The other problem that I am having is that I feel like this little trailer is a great opportunity to really let the whimsy and retro kitsch out of the bag. I mean, it is totally acceptable canvas to be fun and a little over the top. But it is such a teensy space that it can take a severe left turn and not stop until it reaches Candyland and Gloppy the Molasses Monster.
This amazing picture from Inaluxe is the perfect Retro Desert vibe that I am going for.
The last bit of blockage is coming from lack of fear which sort of sounds like an oxymoron. When I talk about fearless DIY it is in a no-idea-is-too-crazy kind of way. Just try something with reckless abandon and see how it turns out. I keep finding myself stuck in this rut that used to be fearless but isn’t anymore.
Anyways, thanks for listening. Talking through what is giving me clogged creative arteries seems to be the only thing that helps and I just want you to know that you are not alone if you ever feel like you are over thinking a room to the point of match searching (so you can light it on fire).
