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If you should ever find yourself at the conclusion of a season, a bit bored and waking up to the screaming statement in your head, "I just have to move I mean nothing else I can do", really a good friend with a seriously brilliant idea is all you need. I just happened to have found myself in this situation with just such a friend this past week. Catherine who is as fun as it gets and also happens to have truly great taste, came to my aid just in time. When I say great taste, I mean like her fabulous little place for example..

Lovely.
Catherine's most favorite thing in life, besides being a successful and brilliant teacher to some of the luckiest high school students in town, is to decorate. Clearly we see why. Fortunately, she decided to unleash her decorating self on me by demanding we attack my apartment with the clear intension of making it the cutest place on the block. Sadly, thousands of dollars would be required to realize its full potential but we gave it a serious shot...
So after a full creative planning session over oysters at Fontaine's (Atlanta's Finest) we headed out for some inspiration.
One of my favorite stores in the neighborhood. If you can't find something you like here, you should probably just go home. We found plenty to scream about. Full of fun ideas, we headed home to what used to look like this..
I mean fine enough but blah..
I can't even go into detail on the problems here, but you can see why it needed a change. However, after some serious man hours...the result..

SO MUCH MORE FUN!
This fantastic red chair lived with my Grandmother and was my absolute favorite thing she owned. Today it gives me a little smile every time I walk across the room.
Here it is again, stylish in any room.
Such a great little table...thank you Randee...
The kitchen. A pot rack should be a requirement in every kitchen really. Makes you want to cook up a little something..
With a few jazzy little joints like this only a flight of stairs below..
A festive little balcony...Rima, it's the coconut! Did you paint that?
a backyard full of fun...
Coupled with the very thought of ever having to move another piece of furniture for the remainder of my life...I can report with 100% certainty that my little itch for moving has been completely cured...THANK YOU CATHERINE!