The apartment war continues, my friends. This week, those white walls get dealt with.
Dedicated readers may remember my horror over the endless stretch of blank white living room wall when we moved into this apartment back in June. A Great White expanse, sterile and soul-sucking, and – since we’re renters, not owners – taunting my inability to paint it.
There were several problems inherent in the decoration of this space:
- Since it’s such a large wall, no one painting or picture can reasonably fill it, thus we need many paintings/pictures/etc.
- An offshoot of the above problem is that they had to be the same many items – with the rest of the room the way it is, I was convinced that too many different things on that wall would turn the space into visual chaos and an instant headache.
- We’re in a rental apartment, so painting the wall is out.
- There’s a heater that runs the entire length of this freaking wall, so we couldn’t, say, hang curtains along the wall or lean several floor-to-ceiling monocoloured canvasses up against it (and where would I find that big a canvas, and how much would it cost, and how in heck would I get it home if I did find one??)
- I wanted to keep this relatively cheap, since who knows if we’ll need these decorations in a future space, and what if whatever I tried to make just didn’t work and was a waste of material?
