pad overhaul phase 1: Success!

ok ok ok! so this is what i have been up to for the past month. 


PAD OVERHAUL PHASE 1: Zen/Minimalist Living Room + Dining Room + Kitchen Part 1


which is basically divided into 7 parts:
1. be emotionally prepared to spend a huge chunk of my savings. this is probably the hardest part. it took me 2 weeks to do this. (damn. i spent that much in two months?!?! what was i thinking?! [US trip included in the computation])
2. repaint the living room, dining area & kitchen. it was baby blue before. now i want more ENERGY

3. paintings, pictures
4. change my 12 yr old aircon (maybe older)
5. a really nice television set. (this means getting cable tv too... about time, i guess. but i just have to say, destiny cable's service isn't so good.)
6. kick-ass lights

7. a cabinet/shelf for my books and magazines

(guess who's the taga-bantay ng bahay)

i still have a couple more things to get. a floor lamp, a mirror, a bamboo/japanistic divider (so i could hide all my junk in the corner) and a wall-mounted wine rack (yep, i have to get alcohol and martini glasses for this. so yes, tequilla/vodka/wine donations are appreciated HAHAH! i do have a bottle of mudshake and an empty *haha souvenir* bottle of jose cuervo already wahoo!)

thank you sooo much to my mom and her crew. sobrang thank you! you see, if i hired professional interior designers/painters/electricians/taga-buhat/whatever, i would've spent a lot more. 

and my mom, she's really good at interior design. but she didn't want to design my pad because then it would be HER. she wanted the place to be ME. like the paintings. she wouldn't put those in our house, but when i showed it to her, she was like "yes, that's you." and the lights too, hindi pareho yung taste namin. mom's more into sophisticated designs, i like more slick and modern lines. but i still wanted to get her opinion and suggestions. i wouldn't be able to finish start this project without her help. thank you po mama! best birthday gift ever :)

now, i have to save again for PAD OVERHAUL PHASE 2: Bedroom (i haven't decided what the theme would be yet.) + Carribean/Beach-y Bathroom + Kitchen Part 2

yey!!

huh?

it's weird. today is my free day. i'm supposed to have fun and do whatever. and tomorrow is a start of a new chapter in my life. so i should be excited.

but today, i felt the first pang of loneliness since i moved out of the house. i want to talk to my mom. *sigh*

errands

things to buy/do when i finish paying for my iMac:

PHASE 1:
1. buy a shelf to house my little tv, books, magazines, dvds, other stuff
2. buy an antenna
3. shop for workout clothes and dainty tops (woohoooo! this one's my fave!)
4. get a hair treatment (Additional Note: i discovered recently that the parlor in my building does eyebrow shaping (using blades) for only 30 bucks! woohooo! and their work looks decent. they also have threading for more over a hundred bucks, but i prefer using a blade.)


PHASE 2:
1. buy a sofa set (this one's a huge investment, yet again, given my current income. i want a japanistic or a modern-looking one!)
2. buy a floor lamp (so that the sofa would be my reading nook instead of my bed)
3. buy new curtains
4. get a bigger mirror for the washroom
5. print and frame my other photos for display


i won't do these things in one month though. 5-10 months maybe, or else i might drown in debt :)) xx,000 pesos more to go before i get to start phase 1! hopefully when 2010 starts, i'll have a decent looking pad :D