(g) jemily // how do they decorate their bedroom?
jemily // how do they decorate their bedroom?
you must understand, emily and jj have very different aesthetics. emily likes contrast (dark colors against white, light against dark) and jj likes muted. emily is all about minimalism, jj is all clutterbitch aesthetic. so when they move in together, they agree to keep it minimalistic-- they have two kids and they’d rather indulge in the two of them than themselves, so it’s kinda their way of saving money or whatever. they have their king sized bed (fit for two queens), their shared dresser, their mirror, and a big painting (apparently tara paints! they bought it from her). neither of them mind much.
but then henry brings home a painting from school (henry is growing into a wonderful artist, he has a natural way with lines specifically) and well the fridge has no space, the living room walls have no space, henry made this specifically for his moms, and they have no choice but to put it in their bedroom. except michael got jealous, so he made his own drawing for his moms and they hung that up as well, but then michael realized doing art was kinda fun, so by the end of the week they have dozens of little drawings hung up in the master bedroom and the bedroom is no longer minimalist, and jj comes home one day from the flea market (emily has a migraine) and she has like s i x different weirdly abstract cat sculptures and jj says, “don’t they look like serg?” and they don’t but they’re strangely endearing and sergio no longer knocks things off of the countertop so they go on top of the dresser and now emily wakes up in a bedroom covered floor-to-ceiling in the drawings of a little kid and an older kid who knows how to manipulate the arts better and on their dresser and nightstands and the little tables they bought are little widgets that they both brought back from shopping trips and--
and emily doesn’t mind it much.
it kinda feels like home.