Feeling Inspired

Tomorrow is moving day! I went to bed at 2am after spending the evening packing, having a meltdown about packing, then packing some more. Luckily this girl has good friends, including one lovely lady who remained calm while I was stressing about piles of magazines and shoes (I know, I know, ridiculous) and offered to come help me pack this evening. But, even after going to bed at 2am I woke up on my own at 5am. Because I was that excited that it's the day before moving day!

My apartment is a disaster right now and it's throwing me off. I don't really handle piles of boxes and not knowing where anything is very well. Also, even though I've moved a billion times I don't have my packing method perfected. I started packing my closet by just starting packing. There was no rhyme or reason. And now getting dressed is difficult. None of this really matters though because tomorrow I get to sleep in my new, full of light apartment. And I don't even have to move a single box myself. In celebration of this, and because for some reason it just seems appropriate, today I am going to post bunches of photos from my home inspiration folder. They make me happy so hopefully they do the same for you.

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Home Sweet Home

Guess who has a new home...

And by "home" I mean place to live, not an actual house. I signed my lease papers this weekend and will get keys on December 1st. I cannot wait to have an actual separated bedroom and living room and a kitchen where more than one person can cook without being crowded. I'm also pretty excited about hardwood floors, the most giant closet ever (with the exception of one, Miss Mariah Carey's), two whole walls of windows, and a view to die for. Not to mention the incredible location.

I've never really decorated a home, another thing I'm way excited for. My current place was sort of a victim of circumstance in that I originally didn't have the money to be putting into decorating and then, once I did, I didn't want to put too much into what I knew was really temporary. I mean, there are some things I did and love that will definitely carry on to this new place. Now though, I can't wait to pick rugs and furniture that I'll plan to have for awhile. Things that have character. And I'm so looking forward to both creating and buying artwork for the walls and going fabric shopping for curtains and just really making this place a home. My home. I want someone to walk in and feel like the place I live is me and that somehow they're experiencing something intimate in being there. Like learning someone's secrets but feeling so endeared to that person you don't have any desire to reveal them.

Take a Seat

I currently live in a studio in a newer building in the city, and while in the beginning I loved the coziness of it and not having to furnish a large space and how my cat couldn't hide from me, I think I'm ready for a grown up apartment. Also some more space. And counters.

I've been looking at some older buildings and one of the things I realized is I'm going to have to do some major furniture purchasing. I have no dining room table and as someone who lives to throw a great dinner party, this is at the top of the list of things to be remedied. The problem is I think I know what I want and then I see something the exact opposite of that that I love and then I can't figure out what I want. I have made one decision though, I want mismatched chairs.

This is what I'm currently pretty into:








I think the key to making this work and not looking like it's Thanksgiving dinner and you don't own enough seating is going simple, simple, simple with the table. All the tables in those photos are pretty but fairly minimalistic.

One thing I don't like in the mismatched chairs trend is the same chair in different colors. I'm good with different chairs in the same color (see above) but for some reason the other way around just doesn't work quite as well.

This is what I am not at all into:





What do you say? Yea or Nay? Would you do it?