Scenes from a new apartment

Closeup of our bookshelf that lines the living room wall, newly painted Golden Orchards. The books are all by Aaron Cometbus, introduced to me by RL a few years ago. I'm most grateful for this discovery as he's become one of my favorite writers and heroes.

The horrible Pepto Bismol master bath, newly painted by Alex. The color is Poolside Blue - it's actually a little darker and it's the perfect shade of aqua, inspired by Miss Deb's post over here. See the #5 photo.

Our new occasional table purchased today at the Brooklyn Flea from La Mesa Grande of Scranton, PA. We saw the table last week when the Flea was nearly empty... But we didn't buy it then because were indecisive about it. A week to think about it is long enough - he still had it and even offered to put a shelf on it for the baskets! I found these old berry baskets at King's County Salvage, who are usually in the sand pit - they're a little dirty and stained with berry juice but I love them! They're perfect for the table and good for putting keys, wallets, etc into them. And one of them is great for putting all our NYC subway/bus/bike maps into. The table is made from antique barn wood and he will make you a custom piece if you can't find what you're looking for. Some great farm tables, cabinets and chairs. It's good karma wood!

Heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea

That's what my new bathroom makes me feel. So I've been talking about this for the past couple of weeks but we finally moved yesterday. It was a harrowing experience, much less for me than the actual movers. Alex had already taken up about 20 boxes and stacked them on the stairs leading to the rooftop in an exercise of magical Egyptian pyramid building. The morning of we were still scrambling to get last minute stuff and we thought we left much to be done...

We had to call in last minute movers because of a misunderstanding. Having two sets of movers moving up and down, we needed a maestro to conduct everything! There is still much cleaning and organizing and trading of fridge contents to be done. But the first thing I want to start working on is the master bathroom, pictured above. I didn't realize it had been painted Pepto Bismol pink, including the ceiling!!!

Here is my Polyvore set that I just made to keep track of my ideas for the bathroom. I want it simple and NOT PINK.

I need to paint the walls a light turquoise color as I want this to be the main color of the bathroom, with touches of khaki/sand. Then I can stop hyperventilating when I walk in there.