Going Gaga -> I love this song!

Dream Dining Area

Hey! Look look! Its part 2 of my Dream Apartment series. haha :)

This would be the dining room area (of my dreams).

This is just a picture to show what I would like the dining area to look like if you were walking through the door or standing in the living room. Partially open bookshelf units to separate the living and dining spaces and also to provide storage. I also love the way they've used faux track lighting on top of the bookshelf.

The desk and cube bookshelf I'd place side by side to make it seem like one long bookshelf/room divider.

Candle centerpiece for the dining area table. Perfect for romantic dinners or intimate dinner with another couple. :)

I found the perfect artwork to hang over the dining room table! Its red, black, and white to match the decor theme and its food themed AND its Andy Warhol (one of my favorite icons of art).
Area rug for the dining area. I can't decide if it's too busy for that small space and/or if it adds too many dark colored things.

Lotus pendant light! I have LOVED this light since the moment I saw it. :) I think it would look soo amazing hanging above the dining room table.

The dining table! Perfect for the tiny apartment (or The Nest, as we like to call it) because its small for everyday use and with the leaves expanded, its perfect for parties and *cough* beer pong *cough* :P

And I love these dining room chairs for EXACTLY the same reason. They have this amazing red (i know it looks orange on here) pop of color and they stack! So we can always keep a couple extra in the storage closet for parties.

Dream Bedroom

Alright! Having been in the new apartment for almost 2 months, I'm starting to get restless when it comes to nesting. I crave any excuse to window shop or online oggle furniture and decor. Maybe its because we only have 2 broken camping chairs (living room seating), 1 tiny beat-up side table (my desk), an old crappy Walmart dorm desk (Trace's desk/dining table), 2 thoroughly broken desk chairs, and a size Full bed and box-spring set. There. I said it. I'm ashamed of my own furniture to the point of being embarrassed to have people over for fear that they'll either laugh in my face or run away screaming.

SO I decided to at least make myself feel better and make a post about what my apartment WOULD look like if I had the resources to decorate and furnish.

Dream Bedroom: Aeon Flux (mother nature meets modern utopia)

Dresser. I loved the whole "mod but still earthy and simple" style of it..

Nightstand.

Wardrobe!

Basic brown bed frame. I like sleeping low to the floor and headboards are so overrated. I'd rather hang art above the bed or just put it beneath a window, framing the whole thing withthe curtains.

Fuzzy Flokati area rug! Its like shag only way way better and plusher. :D

I like the cream colored one because it helps balance the dark wood furniture. Don't you agree?

Orange table lamp (to put on top of a dresser or wardrobe). I love that IKEA has this in orange because neutral colors can get sooo boring if you don't add a little pop of color.

More lighting! this time for the corner of the room. I adore soft papery lighting. It feels so cozy and dreamy to me. I can just imagine putting sage green light bulbs inside of it for the earthy nature feel I want in a bedroom.

This ceiling light looks so much more awesome in person. I'd want to hang it over the bed and then attach little origami flowers and stars to the wire circle with some fishing line.

Kitty bed! For the kitten in my life. :)

Twiggy looking string lights to wrap around the hanging ceiling lighting (above) and to drape around the windows. Because I am cool like that.

Bamboo blinds! to keep out the extremely bright morning sun.

Curtains to hang OVER the bamboo blinds. Why? Because I'm a girl and because they have cool leaves on them. I do love foliage.

KickAss bedding! The pillow case fabric looks like wood grain and the brown tone bedspread is very modern but nature-chic. Perfect for the look I'd go for in the bedroom.

Tray for breakfast in bed! haha I wish.. :P

Fake plants! You can't kill em and they always look great! What's not to love??

Wooden wall panels. Normally I have a thing against them because they can look so dull and tacky and heavy.. But these actually look like they would look very nice in this room. Maybe?

My Recent Life (in pictures)

This is basically a photographic summation of my life the past 3 to 4 weeks.

Tempe Times

All taken at the Mushroom Palace (AKA - Julie and Marissa's apartment).

Just some good times in Tempe, AZ.

Orphan

There is a city by the sea

A gentle company

I don’t suppose you want to

And as it tells its sorry tale

In harrowing detail

Its hollowness will haunt you

Its streets and boulevards

Orphans and oligarchs it hears

A plaintive melody

Truncated symphony

An ocean’s garbled vomit on the shore,

Los Angeles, I’m yours