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Closets and Compromises

Our closet was one of the few rooms in this house we never painted when we moved it. And it bugged me. It was plain and the walls were dirty and scratched. Although we would love to have a custom closet, we knew that would not happen in the near future, so I decided to just paint it for now.

Unser begehbarer Kleiderschrank war einer der Raeume im Haus, der seit unserem Einzug nie gestrichen wurde. Und es nervte mich. Er war oede und die Waende waren schmutzig und verkratzt. Wir  wuenschen und zwar einen massgefertigten Schrank, aber wir wussten auch, dass das in naher Zukunft nicht so schnell passieren wuerde, also beschloss ich, ihn einfach mal zu streichen.

Before:
Vorher:
After:
Nachher:

Okay, you might not see a huge difference on these before and after pictures, but I'm telling you, to me it's like night and day and this little project made me very happy. The walls are now gray and I painted the shelves light gray and now that all of the clothes are back in the closet, you can't see that much of the walls anymore...haha. Oh well, still happy about the result.

Okay, man sieht jetzt vielleicht nicht so einen grossen Unterschied in diesen Vorher und Nachher Bildern, aber ich sage euch, fuer mich ist es ein Unterschied wie Tag und Nacht und dieses kleine Projekt hat mich sehr gluecklich gemacht. Die Waende sind jetzt grau und ich habe die Regale hellgrau gestrichen und nachdem ich unsere Klamotten wieder in den Schrank gehangen habe, kann man gar nicht mehr soviel von den Waenden sehen...haha. Naja, ich bin aber trotzdem sehr mit dem Ergebnis zufrieden.

We also did some picture shopping, after living in this house for almost two years, we still have a lot of empty walls and wanted to change that.  The reason for the empty walls is, that we have a total different taste in artwork and usually couldn't agree on anything together. Since that didn't get us very far, we just decided, we each get to pick one piece we like and deal with whatever the other person picked.

Wir haben uns ausserdem auf die Suche nach ein paar Bildern gemacht. Nachdem wir bereits seit fast zwei Jahren in diesem Haus leben, haben wir immer noch eine Menge leerer Waende und wollten das aendern. Der Grund fuer die leeren Waenden war, dass wir einen total unterschiedlichen Geschmack haben, wenn es um Bilder/ Kunst geht und wir konnten uns nie auf was einigen, was uns beiden gefallen hat. Das hat uns natuerlich nicht weit gebracht, also haben wie beschlossen, dass wir uns jeder ein Bild aussuchen koennen und uns dafuer damit abfinden muessen, was immer sich der andere ausgesucht hat. 

This is what Katie has to deal with:

Hiermit muss Katie sich abfinden:
I love them! 
Ich liebe sie!

The top says: "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain!"
Middle: Life is not measured by the number of breath we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away!"
Bottom: "Write your own life's story!"

And this is the picture Katie picked, bought from an artist at Venice Beach.

Und das ist das Bild, was Katie sich ausgesucht hat, sie hat es von einem Kuenstler am Venice Beach gekauft.
I call it "the scary tree picture"

Ich nenne es "das gruselige Baum Bild"

Oh well, Life is all about compromising, isn't it? 

Naja, das Leben ist voller Kompromisse, oder?

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