I just had a crazy happy thought!
I've been stressing about this whole nine-days-and-counting-until-Thanksgiving-and-there's-no-carpet-in-my-dining-room-because-Beloved-Spouse-got-a-wild-hair-and-ripped-it-out-thing.
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And now it looks like a naked mole rat. |
And I'm racking the old brain matter trying to come up with a workable solution to having an empty, naked front half of the house before my loved ones descend for Turkey Day. One that is fast, cheap, attractive, and easy to implement. I could really use that obnoxious guy from HGTV who ambushes people and does wacky shit and designs them a gorgeous free room in three days right about now.
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Yeah, Todd Davis, that's the guy. |
Then it occurs to me: I can do this. I can so do this. Even if I can't, I can, because I've decided that I'm not going to let reality interfere with remedying this intensely bizarre situation.
But here's the crazy happy thing: This is an opportunity to finally design and decorate this room, which I've been wanting to do for five years. This is a chance to introduce the ultimate design element:
Monkey art.
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Like "Before the Monkey Duel," by Edmund Bristow. Hell, yeah. |
The unifying theme of my formal living-dining room is going to be Mid-Century Modern Monkey Art. And if you don't think those two schools work together, you obviously haven't spent enough time in a locked room with me when I've had too much coffee and have been watching
West Side Story.
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Creativity tastes like boysenberries, did you know that? |
Now, I have no illusions that I can completely transform this room before Thanksgiving. Frankly, I expect that my guests will be too horrified by my cooking to even notice whether there's carpet, paint, or fresh hay on the floor. But I am now totally inspired and looking foward to the challenge of building a design out of modern-contemporary furniture pieces and framed prints of monkeys wearing clothes.
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Hop on board or get outta my way. |
This is going to be amazing. Way better than my Thanksgiving dinner, anyway. I hope Big Sis brings some sides. And some chairs. I'm going to need some of those, too. Yeah.
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