New EVERYTHING

As mentioned my condo has new paint, yay. Also, my building's board voted a while back to give our hallways new carpet, yay 2.0!

My floor finally got the carpet installed (they're obviously doing it floor be floor x48 floors which is a daunting task I don't care to even think about) and I'm happy about the new flooring. The color.. whatever, it's fine and neutral and way better than the blue shit we had before, but what I'm most excited about is that new carpet smell. It makes me super happy. Every time I get off the elevator and walk down the hall I breathe in that fresh carpet aroma and then walk into my newly painted condo and it's just so much newness I don't even know what to do with myself!

I'm glad the hallway has some new decor going on. I think the timing of the new carpet right as I got new paint seems great. I feel like it somehow coincides with the new scheme within my condo. The hall is like an extension of my home after all, even if it is public domain. Does this make any sense?

Mmmm that 'new carpet smell,' so good I could almost munch on it (gross mason):


My only regret is that the condo board voted against the expense of replacing the wall sconces that I lovingly refer to as the "Headroom sconces" because I'm pretty sure my building's decorator was Max Headroom at the time of construction (ie- the sconces look so 1986 it's not even funny).

My building's apparent interior designer back when this place was erected in '87:


The Headroom Sconce pictured below. If you click this picture to enlarge it you can see, in more detail, the lovely white metal texture and fantastically dated geometric shape of the sconce. They might as well have installed lights that looked like rubix cubes and somehow played "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" as you pass them. 1987 was a good year though and if I ever need reminding of that all I have to do is walk out my front door:



Anyway, hooray for that new-condo-smell
M.db