Stir-Crazy Decorating Schemes
Like everyone I know on the East Coast who didn't think ahead and book some kind of fabulous Caribbean villa for January (at this point I'd honestly take a canvas tepee on a vagabond beach), I've been majorly housebound lately. Which is making me view my apartment in a whole new (not necessarily flattering) light. I keep walking around the rooms, staring and scrutinizing: "Why is that pile of crap there?" "Was 'Startling Orange' the best choice for the kitchen?" "Is my framed 1912 Harley Davidson poster still funny or just lame?" I suddenly need to change everything around, paint, and start new collections. For example, globes. I saw this cool globe setup on Apartment Therapy a few weeks ago and have been thinking about it ever since. I want to copy the whole idea, gather about seven of them in different sizes, and cluster them on our extra-long midcentury dresser. This French 1930s piece has a Charles Lindbergh-old-school-aviation quality I love. I'd also like this Danish '80s version, which lights up and could serve as a glowing blue night-light. And, to add height differential, I'd pick this two-and-a-half-foot-tall globe-on-a-pedestal. Each item is from a different era, which provides an additional purpose for the bored or housebound: You can create your own "which country existed when" geography game.
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