Interior Design: A Dream

As a kid I really wanted to be a designer when I grew up.  I remember going to a party for a girl-friend, Lindsay Misch, where the theme was to dress up in what you wanted to be as a grown-up.  I took some of my uncle’s color-pencil drawings because he was an amazing artist and for the night, I pretended to be a designer.  I REALLY wanted to be a fashion designer.  {I know some of you who know me are busting the buttons off your pants because you’re laughing so darn hard!}

I cannot draw.

I can barely choose colors that go together or compliment each other.  Which means my wardrobe is pretty blah.  So a fashion designer?!!  Far stretch.

Plus, I just learned how to curl my hair like a Kardashian last year.  Seriously.

I am not designer material.

I left those dreams in the dust a LONG time ago.

So forget the fashion designer gig.  I could do some interior design.

I used to draw vases of flowers.  Draw…it was more like will myself to create something that had the slightest resemblance of a vase, with flowers, on the top of a piano.  I created these wonky images while I waited for my turn at piano lessons…and other places where I was incredibly bored and wished desperately to be anywhere but there.  {But thanks, Mom, for the lessons!!}

In a statistics class in high school I designed rooms of a home + furniture with graph paper…so I’m actually pretty good at figuring out how to arrange {or re-arrange!} a room.

I got the newest Restoration Hardware catalog last week.  I went to bed early one night just so I could sit and stare at the 500+(!!!!) beautiful pages of impeccable furniture and rooms.

Dreaming of all the things I could purchase, and what would go where…and how I could add that pillow from Anthropologie to add a splash of color!!!

Who am I kidding.  I don’t even have a clue.  I have no idea of where to begin to create a cohesive space.  I am fascinated by those that can.  I felt dejected that night.  I want so badly to be able to do this well, but I do not have that skill set.

So.  What to do?

Add more pins to Pinterest and try to replicate as best I can the things I see?!

AND….camp out on the Hunted Interior’s website….a sweet gal from GA, her taste is so close to mine {though my home looks NOTHING like hers!!}.  She uses bright colors mixed in with the classics, which is right up my alley.

I guess I could hire someone, but then that’s an entirely different area that I know nothing about – how do I find someone and how do I know that the person will choose things that I will love {without having to meet a gazillion times!}?  My dearest friend hired someone last year and I remember her sending me pictures of lamps asking me which one I liked best.  I honestly didn’t know what to tell her…but gave her my opinion anyway.  I think she ended up going with the designer’s choice…

I’m curious about y’all – Where do you start when decorating a space?  Where do you get your decorating inspiration?  Do you hire out for help or create spaces on your own?