Since I got back from Texas, we agreed I should make a start on remodelling the “computer room” or the study, as folks of my parents age might call it. I don’t know whether getting older automatically means becoming more conservative, but the bold colours I favoured in my 20’s now seem garish and hard to match with other items. Especially when we nowdays have the luxury of not having to buy Op-shop furniture, and where Ikea and Freedom Furniture catalogs show us how deceptively easy it is to create a stylish living arena. The truth is that the more choice we have, the more tortured the decisionmaking is.
 Somehow we picked the wall colours out really quickly, but besides a two-seater black-brown leather couch (as yet unbought), and a $59 silver lamp, we’re just stalling and losing our nerve. Does bleached blonde wood look better beside chocolate brown, or would off-white be better? Would a full height bookcase darken the room up too much? How can all those computer desks be so ugly? So we decided to buy things one piece at a time. Today we got the lamp. The carpet is next. Then the couch.
To document this process I will include a photo after the first coat of paint. Maybe by Easter some decisions will have been made, but it’s sure not happening quickly at the moment. No more dumb “I’ll have two of those large 3 seater blue couches please” decisions like we made for the loungeroom. Whatever were we thinking!
