Gratuitous pretty room pics that have nothing to do with the ramblings below: 
By Lisa Fine featured in Lonny…
Kate Schintzius in Design Sponge… BOTH Via LGN.
Anyway… You know that itch that sometimes creeps up on you, the one that tells you to throw out everything you own so you can start over? Well that itch compelled me to do some hideous things this weekend. Like moving all my furniture almost 6 mos pregnant. I tried to float my dining table in the middle of the living/dining area and yes duh I was inspired by this apartment. So this actually could have been a really good idea…. had I thought of it 2 years ago. If I was a tad thoughtful, I could have had 2 living rooms and a dining room instead of one clumsily laid out living room and dining. As it stands I would have to throw out almost every piece I own and start over. Not happening. Although I am tempted to start selling things and buying new things. Then again, Im also tempted to just give up and stop caring. But then what will we all talk about on this blog? Politics? Religion? (You don’t want to get me started…)
Anyway, after 4 hours with the house in disarray I pushed the stuff back where it belongs. All I got out of it was scratched floors… speaking of…. regretting that I didnt stain them dark when I had the chance. My head is a mess lately, but only when it comes to this apartment. I’ve got the “Not much left to do here, so I’m starting to hate it all and dont want to finish what is missing” BLUES.
PS I emailed some pictures of the new layout some of my blog friends…. Rebecca June liked it but conceded I would have to toss everything I own. Nick Olsen told me to stop moving furniture, chillax go get fat and watch soap operas and Erica aka Design Blahg said “Uh, why the eff do you need two living rooms?? You have clearly been abducted by the dude who decorated the wall street apt! 
” YUP. Thank god I met you people.
Anyone else get the decorating blues?
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In the risk of sounding extremely annoying: It’s the pregnancy, hun. The pregnancy nesting urge drove me to paint the world’s most ugly border on C’s room’s walls. So do as Nick said, gather your inspiration, and when you’re out of this mood you can always think about it again.
I agree with Erica, why? But I get how you feel and that’s the thing with design hey, as soon as you finish or nearly finish you start to go in a complete other direction. Love what you have (because it is beyond fab) and enjoy the next couple of months of being preggers and painting in your gorgeous studio (can’t you buy some pieces for that like you mentioned?)… and please stop moving the furniture until after baby’s here!!
xx
One day the stark white walls of my old apartment were killing me so much that I just went to Benjamin Moore with thoughts like “Stripes!” “Bright Colors!” “Modern!” and ended up creating a hideous unfinished horizontal stripe pattern out of YELLOW and ORANGE. The process was so tedious and not easy at all. I lost my motivation about 3/5 of the way through and the wall was a mess. Boredom + decorating blues + white-wall-syndrome = ugly highway hospital-looking walls. uch. Not very inspiriting.
Awesome blog, lady!
Agree to all of your wise friends’ comments! Pregnancy, combined with moving furniture, not wise. Concentrate on decor for the holidays, as the baby will arrive in January, and not sure where you are with the nursery prep. Hey, we all read decor blogs, and go through hating all we own, but take our advice; this is the best time of your life, and your place is already great!
Per your post-March due date, my apologies!
love u nic! keep it together!
I am guilty of the same thing and have the scatched up floors to prove it, and be happy for your light floors because my dark ones show every scratch. I cannot finish decorating my house because I have not made up my mind about furniture placement, so I haven’t hung any pics or bought any new things since I moved…nuts. Your apartment looks amazing the way it is, if you really have the need to do some decorating I’m sure there are lots of us that would be thrilled to let you do our homes anytime.
I don’t so much have the blues, but I am on a frenzy with projects lately. Maybe it’s a nesting for the winter thing? Then I also decided to have a wine and cheese party which thusly caused a “I must finish all these projects asap!” thing…
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i just wrote about this today actually! i think its impossible to avoid. but luckily money is the one thing that stops me. it just costs too much to change things around!
I didn’t realize you were pregnant — congratulations!
The hormones will make you do many, many strange things. I painted the baby’s room a grayish pastel blue. WTF was I thinking???? I hate color. Barf.
I actualy think you are all right about the hormones… The frenzy was so maniacal that it had to be driven by some strange force! I also cried and laughed at once this weekend – when imagining getting so fat that I would have to be rolled to the hospital like the blueberry girl from Willie wonka. So yes. I’ve lost it.
Oh no, Violet Beauregarde? Don’t make me fear pregnancy more than I do already…
Im not surprised that you know her name, but rather- THAT YOU REMEMBERED THAT SPELLING!!!!!!! wow.
sometimes you just have to try it….better your own home then a friends hehehe!
Whatever you do, do NOT go to the hair salon and ask for anything radically different from what you have now. Seriously, pregnancy invites the crazy!
I actually once went bleach blond for 24 hours in my early 20s. But I wasnt pregnant. Must have had PMS.
Its definitely the hormones. I remember waiting until my husband fell asleep to move around furniture because if he saw me with my huge belly grunting and heaving he would have killed me! I would change the room around, look at it for a while and if it didnt work (which it never did), i would move it back before he woke up! We also moved into our new apt when I was 8 months pregnant and I decided not to take most of our furniture thinking i would start fresh…big mistake. Fresh now means EMPTY APARTMENT. I spent the next month waddling around the city in the blistering heat trying to find the perfect pieces which only existed in my head. Now, three months later, im in a white apt with white furniture which is driving me insane!!!
ha! Love Nick Olsen’s advice! (and Chedva’s too!) Your lay out is perfect…no more design house/show houses until after baby! Nesting+hormones+cold weather=the crazies! Hang in there and I recommend copious amounts of Haagen Dazs! That’s what my children are made out of!
Phew…glad you came back to your senses. That was a little touch and go there. I think this is just all a sign that someone needs to hire you immeds to decorate a new, fab space. OR that you need to go buy a summer house
See the next post… Working on the MIL’s place. I love the decorating part, HATE HATE HATE the project managing part. UGH.
I hated every single decorating decision I made with both my pregnancies. Had to repaint the baby’s room… oh god, I was terrible. You, with your style, I bet it’s still good! xx
Ha ha. Sometimes you have to try it to just know that it is not an option. Not to mention, when you are in this world it is easy to want something new and different every other day. I feel you.
xoxo
Rebecca June
I’m with DB. Hey, you can decorate the studio now, right?
Im buying a new dining table for my apt and sending my ikea one to studio…
for sure i do. but never bc i am done…i usually just think i have better things to do that give a shit about this house.
but then like hooker crack i get sucked back in and inspired..