Showing posts with label Mom and Dad are coming to Chicago. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mom and Dad are coming to Chicago. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Today's Tentative Itinerary


The 'rents made it to Chicago!  They also had their first experience on the L (nothing to report).  Here's a look at today's schedule (pronounced SHED-ule):
  1. Breakfast at Orange.
  2. Visit Chicago's famous Magnificent Mile.
  3. Light lunch (TBD)
  4. Afternoon drink in the John Hancock Center's 95th floor Signature Lounge.
  5. 90-min Lake Michigan/Chicago River Boat Tour.
  6. Dinner (TBD)

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Color Correction

In preparation for my parents coming to visit (in 2.5 weeks!), P and I will be painting our bedroom this long weekend!  I'm excited, and P is not.  This is necessary for two reasons:
  1. The paint job in our apartment is crap.  Our landlord painted it with color, which is a nice change of pace from normal apartment living, but they cheaped out on the type of paint.  It gets dirty very easily, and when you try to wash it, it comes off on the sponge.  
  2. My parents got P and I a lovely duvet cover for Christmas, as well as some paintings for the wall.  The problem: the duvet cover and painting colors do not go with the current scheme in our bedroom, so they remain in the packaging in which they came.  
Here's where you come in.  I need color suggestions for the walls, please.  The duvet cover looks like this (ours is in blue) :

The paintings are a dark indigo blue, with white frames, and a very similar color to the duvet as an accent.  So, what do you think?  The other catch is, we have a faux fur coverlet that is a deep red.  I was thinking grey walls, but P says that is boring.  

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