Windowseat: color my world

So something inspired me to pay a visit to the Chiasso website today . . . it was probably an issue of the Ikea magazine that got me craving brightly colored housewares. That and the latest Garnet Hill catalog.

Chiasso and Ikea and Garnet Hill make me happy. I think I've craved bright colors ever since the day my Mom painted my bedroom walls bright yellow (I was skeptical of her plan back then, but learned to love those yellow walls. Though when I was in high school I had two walls painted black and two a sortof dark teal . . . ).

One thing I hate about living in an apartment is that I'm stuck with white walls and beige or grey carpeting. Wah. I want wood floors and throw rugs. I want to paint the walls!

But I've still got splashes of color all over the place. A blue denim slipcover on my couch + bright colored throw pillows. A bright yellow big heavy square coffeetable that I got at a flea market for cheap. A handpainted copy of a favorite Renoir painting that my parents got me at a sale (some art student must've painted it for a class or practice or something). A floor lamp from Ikea with a bright orange plastic lampshade (that just matches the orange in the Renoir, of course). A bright blue Ikea table lamp. A bounce around Tigger toy. Black bookshelves that are chock full of books (I always prefer black shelves so that the colors of the bookjackets or CDs or tapes show up brightly against the shelves). Then there are the action figures and movie posters. The kitchen full of Fiestaware. The bright yellow rubber duckie rug in the bathroom. And so on.

Stuff I need from the Chiasso catalog? That Medusa floor lamp. The blue rocketship lamp. The rubber duckie hot water bottle. A set of those swing glasses (one in each color). The red rubber heart coasters. "Need" might be too strong of a word, but nahhhhh . . . after a winter like this, I need more color.