Decorating

We have just recently had three American guys voluntarily come to paint the dorm. Two of them were professional house painters and they did a fantastic job. The dorm was previously a kind of communist blue.... the shade of aqua that you'd expect to see a metre-and-a-half up the wall of a socialist state hospital (the rest of the wall being white as if to remind you that it would be a capitalist crime to paint the whole thing). Our walls, I will admit, were painted to the ceiling. Just. I mean the paint was only just hanging on. It was dirty, blistered, cracking and starting to fall off in places. Now the walls have been stripped, sanded and coated in a new blue. It is a stronger blue- a unisex sky blue that gives a greater sense of freedom and space.

The transformation motivated me to finally get some frames and put up a bunch of pictures this past weekend. I bought a mat and some cushions too. I hung some fabric on the back of a bare cupboard. I threw a battery in the plastic clock someone gave me for Christmas and put that on another wall. (A clock for Christmas- is that a hint?!) My room looks much better and I’m enjoying it already.

So...my tip for this new week is that if you want to change your life maybe all you need to do is paint a few walls.