However, he has horrible taste in home decorating (really, just in the realm of mirrors.) I decided to paint pretty much most of the upstairs. At first, the reason was all the dented up walls (courtesy of the two little anklebiters that reside here), but then I saw an even better reason for deciding to redecorate.
THIS:
(I know that it isn't the best photo, but it was either that or a picture of me in the mirror...and I forgot to do it while it was still up on the wall, so this is what you get....crappy mirror next to my robin's egg blue wall...yet one more reason why I shouldn't be allowed to pick paint colors.)
We received it as a wedding gift (from people that we actually like) and I wanted to huck it. I lost that argument and before I knew it, it was up on the wall. But not just any wall, not some dark corner or basement bathroom. Noooooooooooo....He put the f*&^ing thing up so that as soon as you opened the front door you'd gaze into its disturbing beveled edges.
For years, I had friends walk in and look at the mirror and then back to me and say things like "uh, nice mirror....1987 called..." or "Wow...thats a real awesome mirror you have there...was it your mom's...or was it his mom's"
Nope, unfortunately its ours...
But not anymore....I contemplated giving it to Viola En Vogue, because she does like to look at herself in mirrors (actually she does it rather frequently...can you count that as a hobby?), but she's too trendy, she would die if she had to have that in her place.
I did think about breaking it, but that's seven years bad luck or something, plus maybe some sucker will buy it at my garage sale. On second thought, seven years isn't so bad if it means I'll never have to see that thing again.
What is the one freaking ugly thing (lets hope there aren't too many!) that your spouse/significant other/roommate insists on displaying?
Well, there was the MILLER LITE light up wall sign my brother-in-law bought us for Christmas. Yeah, it wasn't 14 years ago when we were 20 and 21, it was FOUR years ago!! WTF??
ReplyDeleteThis is the same brother-in-law (he has the WORST taste of any human alive) told me that I should paint murals on my living room wall. Our first house was one of those little track houses and when you walked into the house the living room had this HUGE wall right in front of you and the ceiling sloped down (kinda like a cathedral ceiling). I wondered out loud what I should do with that wall and he says "You should paint a huge mural on the whole wall of a waterfall, with jungle trees and maybe a mountain".
I looked at him and said nothing. The laughter in the room from my husband and my sister was enough to shut him the hell up.
Mr Midnite doesn't live with me so I am safe from any of the wierd random stuff he might like.
ReplyDeleteMy ex collected transformers, you know robots in disguise, they were like a plague of plastic locusts. Awful, I wanted to burn them but the toxic fumes could have wiped out Scotland.
Ohhh I'm so sending you a picture right now of the only piece of art in our living room.
ReplyDeleteHow about an ugly bear hung on the wall?... HUGE!!!!... Not my idea of stylish decor.
ReplyDeleteAmber...Miller light sign? sounds utterly hideous.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Midnite...Yeah, I like Optimus Prime...but as decor, I don't think so.
Ckrets...can't wait to see it
Anonymous...I've got a friend like that...room of death...not my thing.