we hate (most) lamps

I love this sign:


Anyway.

So Mark and I have decided that lamps and area rugs are, as a rule, ugly. This is unfortunate because we should probably get (betcha didn't see this coming) lamps and area rugs. They're also expensive.

I'm planning on solving the rug problem by ordering from Flor, where you can design your own rugs that are as large or as small as you need them to be, and in pretty much any colour and/or texture that you can think of. They even have shag rugs, mofo. They ARE expensive, but here are the reasons why it's worth it:

- high quality
- environmentally friendly
- you get EXACTLY what you want
- easy to wash
- gets delivered to my door
- when we move, we can take them with us and re-arrange them in a different room
- Dooce has them in her house and says they're good.

This is where I need your opinion, interwebs. Are you ready? Here are some shots of my living room:



We will not be covering the entire floor because that would be a crying shame. So you'd still see quite a bit of the current floor around the edges of the room. Now what you need to tell me is:


Just the blue kind, or a checker pattern of the blue one and the striped one? The squares would be about a foot and a half wide (the ones pictured are just little samples). Leave me a comment or email us with your humble opinions, kthx.

Now, lamps. This is a problem that can be solved by possibly finding old lamps in weird little antique and pseudo-antique stores. Also, we have gift certificates for a few hardware stores, so there is that. But seriously, lamps in general are U-G-L-Y, and not even ugly in a kind of cool "so ugly it's cute" way. Most of the lamps on the market look like they came straight from the eighties and that's not a good thing.

This is a problem. We have ONE lamp. One. It's an antique floor lamp and it doesn't work. You can see it in one of the living room pics up there, by the way. Oh, I lied, we have two lamps. We shipped our paper Ikea table lamp to Nova Scotia, and it still works. The paper is all ripped and kind of scotch-taped back together though, so one day soon it's going to lose it's structural integrity and collapse and possibly start a fire.

I guess we'll just get the least ugly lamps we can find. The good side of this is that a lot of our ceiling lights have really cool antique (I'm pretty sure) glass shades over them.

So it's almost the weekend and it looks like we are not going to Truro. It snowed here a little tiny bit today, and there is snow in the forecast for Sunday and we don't really want to get caught driving in it. I think I will make bread this weekend, and try to convince Mark to make cookies. If he makes them, I will help, and he knows that.

Mmm.... cookies...