So, someone, at some time, painted a steel blue accent wall in almost every room of this house. You saw the one in the bedroom a few months ago. Here's the one in the dining room:
We'll, um, we'll talk about the burlap-and-ruffles light fixture in a minute.
For now, I wanted to show you this, which took all of an hour to accomplish:
It's nothing special, I just painted the wall white like the rest of the walls in the dining room, kitchen, and living room. It's boring, but it blends in with the rest of the house, which is what I wanted it to do.
Okay, let's talk about this. This is a cut-corner rectangle lampshade onto which has been hot-glued burlap and strips of an OFELIA blanket from Ikea (I have the same blanket and recognized it immediately). It's another hideous artefact of the previous tenant, who left behind other treasures such as ugly, heavy drapes, broken curtain rods, gallons of used paint, and countertop scraps.
I mean...
For some reason - maybe this is an old light fixture thing that I just didn't know about? - I had to un-wire the bulb housing from this light fixture in order to get the shade off the fixture. So this took a minute longer than I thought it would. But it was easy - and here's the new shade:
There. Plain, white, unassuming, boring, blends with everything. It's also quite a bit brighter, since the bulb isn't having to fight against that burlap to get light out.
So that's the dining room squared away, until we can get a table in there to work at and maybe also eat at. At the moment I'm working on things in the living room, and I'll have some new bedroom stuff to show you in the next couple of weeks, too. TTFN.
