New paint/fabric ideas

Since the beginning of this house hunt my main motivation has been decorating. All I want to do is decorate the house and maybe find my new hidden talent (is it a talent if you take other people's ideas and mesh them with yours? We all get our ideas from somewhere...). So once we found out about our condo my mind went into crazy decorating overload. I want this and this and this and this and want to do that and that and that and that and . SCREEEEECCHHHHHH (coming to an abrupt halt).

That abrupt halt was caused by Derrick... the boyfriend who I would have THOUGHT cared less about decorating and would have had NO SAY. Wishful thinking...

Derrick wants a say in everything... down to the curtain design (dude... I can only make 1 type of curtain, sew at the top, sew at the bottom, nothing fancy here).

So initially I posted those awesome color ideas and was sooo excited... Derrick shot them down. Shocker (he is very picky about everything which in the end always turns out for the good but when I have an idea and it gets nixed --- this girl is not happy).

On Saturday we had a very adult 2 hours .... we went to Home Depot and looked at paint swatches (okay really we just went and walked down the paint isle grabbing EVERY SINGLE paint swatch and booklet you could grab....we seriously have an insane collection). Then we went to JoAnn Fabric and looked at fabric and at examples of patterns of curtains (I'm not following them but he needs a visual because he can't picture anything in his mind). Here is what we came up with and I'm not going to lie - I love it!

In the living room we plan to paint the walls a darker creme color, the crown molding is white and at first we thought it might look weird but thanks to our handy collection of paint swatches and ideas we saw an example of that. Derrick really wants to paint the ceilings and I love that look. So we plan on painting the ceilings a lighter shade of robin's egg blue (not the real color name but if you are NOT like Derrick you can get a good visual) - like the outer color of the blue flower shown below. My couch and furniture is light tan and dark brown. The best part is the curtains, which will compliment the blue ceiling. We want to do gray curtains but on top of the gray curtains we plan to make a pelmet box example click here out of this fabric:
Then we will have curtains hanging down under the pelmet box just like how the printed ones are shown in the picture of the example. Ours will be the opposite of how the picture shows - pattern on the pelmet box, solid color on the curtains. Also, our pelmet box we want to be very simple and just straight across, no design on it. So awesome and I love that we came to an agreement on the fabric!


We both agree on gray walls in the master bedroom and yellow as an accent (maybe yellow ceiling) and we know how we want to do the curtains (it is a bay window so there are 2 skinny windows and then the sliding glass door window) but that will be another day of heading to JoAnn's and picking out that fabric.