After about a week of zenning out my place, here is the progress so far. There's still a handful of things I want to do on my list, but it's taking a while. Plus, I think change should happen organically, not all at once. That makes it feel artificial. For the most part, I just uncluttered everything and organized.
Here's the progress so far, with some before and after pics. Sorry for the random pic quality, I suck at color correction. Also there's an overload of fashion related content.
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Main. Books, dress form, pillows, boxes, mail..etc everywhere. Foreman family grill baby!
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Couch and coffee table covered in books, clothes, cameras, scratching post, magazines..
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Work table. Books, magazines, office stuff, hot sauce, empty coke zero bottles, napkins...
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Shelf. Stacks and stacks of books unorganized, papers, muji clear boxes filled with junk.
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Loft area. Paintings, frames, boxes of old clothes and junk, kitty in a box
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a very messy closet. That mass of black on the right side are clothes piled up that should be hanging.
Zen it up
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huge leather piece my friend Saba got me from when she interned at Levis. I'm going to be sewing new pillow covers soon for some color.
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My kitties love sleeping on it.
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You know you love my pink cat head litter box.
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Tidier.
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Better shot of the new clean stacking of the books. I still want to add little things to make it feel more homey. Trinkets, flowers..etc
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Endless amounts of fashion and design related material
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Paintings and frames.
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The painting is based on a print by YSL for their Spring 08 collection. Mine is still in progress.
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I actually framed pulls from magazines. They say "All Lanvin" "All Louis Vuitton" "Prada/Commes des Garcon/Lanvin"
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Another magazine pull I framed for the kitchen. Really cute girls eating cake/cupcakes.
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Look at all those empty hangers. I ended up donating almost half my wardrobe!
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On top of the shelf, colonge, shoe polish, jewelery.
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I moved my Muji drawers up on the loft and topped them with wood planks that I'm going to paint white. I still have to organize this area. I plan to put more photos, some plants. etc. My bedding area to the right is bare, I just got rid of my old sheets so I'm not going to show it yet.
more soon!
they own it 
the townhouses here cost something like $2.2k a month for 4 rooms and 2 baths, but it's HUGE... i'm a little envious of my friends living in the nice townhouses, but then i think, good thing i'm living alone! Because i would be smothered by their attention and wouldn't be able to do well in school hahah!
