One down...

Yesterday Tony and took it pretty easy. In the morning we helped S hang the bathroom door on my old apartment (I had removed it years ago to have more space in the walk-in closet) and then walked through Chinatown on a search for an inexpensive folding screen for the sliding doors in my bedroom. Although I had been sourcing hand-carved screens and a particularly nice screen with Plantation Shutters at Pier 1 in the end I decided to go with a Chinatown special.

A simple folding screen backed with paper in a straight-forward Asian style. I choose the mahogany colour as the laminate wood floors in my bedroom are fairly dark and the daybed is teak. The effect is simple, was inexpensive and provides a degree of privacy (my sliding doors look out into an alley and on to a host of other backyard houses) while also allowing the light to stream in. While that finished off one window it still leaves the dining room, office, master windows and kitchen windows. While we discovered possible wood window blinds for the dining room and office windows I still would like shutters for those that face the street. For the kitchen window I am dreaming of small bi-fold half-window shutters in white, while the master will have full plantation shutters.


While I like the look of white shutters in white frames against light-coloured walls I also really like the Island-look of the wood plantation shutters against white walls. We have a lot of fairly dark furniture and I think the wood shutters would work nicely with the furniture and cleaner, crisper walls, but I just can't decide. The problem of living in a space defined by light and with so much space. I am used to smaller spaces with deeper, richer and darker colours.