Reinvention of Self : Living Spaces

So I'm starting to plan out my life.

1) I've already started eating right, I'm following a Body Type plan that my father (who is also my chiropractor) has recommended. I'm a member at Live Strong dot com and I track all my foods and exercise.

2) I've started planning out my finances, learning about smart budgeting, researching investing and such.

3) I've started thinking towards school. I plan on starting classes in the Summer, something to whet my appetite towards getting my degree(s).

4) I've begun to analyze myself and I am trying to reinvent my style. My sense of fashion. I've had some seriously cool friends in my life who have influenced me in my sense of style. However, I've allowed my seriously tight finances to restrict me and cause me to settle for t-shirts and jeans. I have more inside me. I have things I want to say, things I want to be, and this path is part of that goal.

5) I've started planning out how I want my living space to look. I've lived so much of my life in just what was easiest, and I haven't been happy with it. I'm ready to thoroughly enjoy my space. So I'm starting to look and plan in this arena too.


This blog entry is about some things I have found that I want to make happen in my lifespace. To start with, I want all parts of my living space to be me. Things like this wall art, things that step outside of normal decoration, things that say me. Both of these wall designs are actually fairly freaking cool. I'm thinking of what designs I could create on my own.

With a projector and some digital art, I could put some cool concepts and designs on my walls. I have some ideas, and they are based on these two right now.

The downside to wall art like this is that my goal has been to go with a Modern / Asian bent in the decor of my space. For instance. This bedroom set is going to be a MUST HAVE... without a doubt.

Seriously, isn't that beautiful?! I've considered talking with my carpenter step-dad and seeing how hard such a beast would be to build. I figure I could build all of it. The bed, side tables, and the dresser drawers. It would save a lot of money, be even more cool that I had built it, and it would allow me to customize anything that I wanted. For instance, if you notice the lights built IN to the headboard on the bed? I mean... wow. That's freaking cool.

Some artwork that would be framed, or using the non-frame look are things like these:



And then, I really like this concept. I would want something with my own bent, this image isn't that flattering in my opinion, but this kind of concept is what I am envisioning... something different that wraps around a room. Defines the room different from the expected or traditional design.

There are alot of ideas shooting through my head right now. Concepts and plans and goals that I would never have allowed myself to have before. For all sorts of stupid reasons. This is part of why I am planning so wildly. I want to dream. I want to remember how to dream. I've spent a large part of my life sacrificing my dreams for people who never even asked me to, I just felt it was my 'Duty' for some messed up reason.

I'm excited. The future's so bright I gotta wear shades!
Speaking of shades and bright...

Fresh.