OMG - What a bathroom!

I was reading Pioneer Woman's S.O.S. post today and someone referenced this bathroom -
Wowza!!!

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/04/a-bathroom-situated-atop-a-15-story-elevator-shaft/

Home Re-Do - in My Dreams...

Oh, my, someday, when I can do whatever I want to do in my house, decorating-wise, without having to explain to my husband "why" I want to do it, I'm going to do this:  painted wood floors  [For some reason although I was able to save a photo or two from her blog to my desktop, I am having trouble posting it here so please click through to her blog and look at her painted floor project.]

I LOVE IT!

Although most times my traditional decor leanings have been in line with J's, lately I find myself wanting to go either the cottage route (see painted floors above) or the neat and clean and more modern look of the Petersiks (Young House Love).  Oh, my, all that white and gray with pops of color around the house!!!  See here for an example of what I mean:  Tea Time - and to top it all off?  NO CLUTTER

It took YEARS to get color on my walls and now I sort of want to go white again?  Go figure.

It must be the impending onset of menopause...

(That may ALSO be the reason I am itching to just throw out everything I own and start all over...)

Colors!!

LOVE this room!  What I like the most is the combination of patterns and colors!  If only I could recreate this...  but I have trouble even doing it with scrapping papers - can you imagine the trauma if I tried to combine pillows?? 

From the handmade home...

I have a red/gold pattern of dragonflies on my sitting room window seats - I can't even get pillows for that 'cause I'm afraid the reds will clash.

Yea, I know I could buy them and return them if they don't work...  but I just keep looking...

I am seriously jealous...

I am a total fan of Dooce, aka Heather Armstrong.  If you don't know who she is, read her blog, but prepared to laugh harder than you've ever laughed in your life, and WARNING: although you might get offended by her language, and you might get offended by her politics (and there's a good chance you might support her politics all the way!), one thing you WON'T be is bored!

She recently moved into a new house, and I feel the need to share this link with you.  Just take a look at this hallway and know that I.WOULD.GIVE.MY.RIGHT.ARM.AND.MY.LEFT.ONE.TOO to have a hallway like this one in my house.  It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of the house looks like, although it is gorgeous now and will be even more beautiful when they're fully moved in and decorated, but OMG.I.WANT.THIS.HALLWAY.

Click here to see the hallway.

'Nough said.