here's my bedroom at my parents house, post college. i got stuck there for a few years between graduation and moving in with gonzo77. love the terrible faux-southwestern wallpaper border, circa 1991. never liked pink. i always loathed having a pink bedroom. this is the start of me "toning down" my decorating, lol. i tend to have a frenetic bedroom. trying to break that habit. anyway, i miss that waterbed.
these next two are from me and gonzo's first apartment in garfield. (we actually, unknowingly lived on a superfund site!) the landlord told us she wanted to paint, and told us to pick a color. we said a medium blue. she clearly interpreted that as "smurf blue". this is actually the living room- the second room was too small for the bed, so we turned that into a computer room. what a couple of hobos, eh? sleeping on my old college futon.
a couple of shots of what is now derceto's room at the current apartment. i think i was going for a classy, sexy, simple look. you know, condusive to makin' whoopie. either this doesn't photograph well, or it really did look jerry-rigged and cheap.
this picture kinda makes me sad. this is after gonzo and i broke up, but before i moved out. so we quickly turned the computer room into my bedroom. i didn't even bother rearranging the decorations. i was too busy chainsmoking and crying to care, really.
so i moved back to my parents house. threw all my possessions in storage, and brought my clothes and computer. that's it. in the 3 years i'd been gone, they had repainted my old bedroom and turned it into a storage heap. so for 6 months, i slept in a pile of my parents crap on an air mattress, with my clothes stuffed into cardboard boxes.
then i went crazy for a lil bit. met, got engaged to, and moved in with vimes after less than a month. hey...it seemed like a good idea at the time. *sheepish shrug* i actually managed to grab a shot of the king sized murphy bed that we slept on in the living room of his tiny hells kitchen apartment. i think the only thing in this photo that i owned is the pair of purple undapants in the foreground.
....back to my parents house. this time, i painted and set up a bedroom in the basement. also very red and "sexxxay", if you consider an air mattress on a tile floor in a basement in the dead of winter conducive to naughty goodness. (to be fair though, that particular bedroom actually saw some action lol). gross, right?
but by then, i'd had enough of living with the rents. so i moved back in with gonzo.
and then i bought myself my first real bed. between my h.s waterbed, the bed gonzos parents bought us, my old college futon, and the air mattress... i figured i deserved it. i got a new desk too... still using the same dresser and nightstand from when i was 12. that will change this year. i want to be an adult now, kthx.
