My mother teases me about the odd childhood habits I brought with me into adulthood. I hate to clean, but will spend hours organizing small spaces. In childhood, it would take me mere minutes to shove a week's worth of mess under my bed, but hours to catalogue and re-catalogue my record or book collections. Today, I can spend a weekend organizing a closet to hold our volumes of memorabilia, but can't be bothered to put a tape measure back in the toolbox. And that very tape measure is what's preventing me from starting my latest home-improvement-on-the-cheap project.

Look, if you come to my house, be prepared to see a dust bunny or four rolling across the floor. Don't sit on any upholstered surfaces unless you are okay with a few cat hairs on your clothing, and we don't have a basement, so you're going to see the litterboxes. So we're not the greatest housekeepers on the planet, but I do like our house. We're not fancy and we don't spend a lot of money on our stuff, but we've managed to create really fun, colorful rooms in our home that you definitely won't find in a magazine or a storefront, but definitely reflect us and our interests.

We started with our office - The Hokie Room - as an homage to Tony's alma mater, Virginia Tech.

Then we moved on to The Neon Bathroom. Tony picked the color, and I'll admit that I was skeptical at first. As soon as we slapped that paint on the wall, though, I was hooked. I think it's my favorite room in the house.

Next came the more subtle living room. The paint color is called "Hopsack," but of course it took us about ten minutes to filthify that lovely name and change it into "Nutsack." Accurate? No. Funny? Absolutely. Especially when you're standing in Home Depot asking for another gallon, trying to remember the actual name of the paint you need.

After a year of dealing with plumbing problems and torn-up drywall, we were able to finish the red hallway and yellow kitchen. Framed posters of our favorite movies, musicians and television shows, along with a portion of our collection of records from the 80s cover the walls - our version of art. Now that our main floor is pretty much done (although I'm sure the acquisition of more posters is inevitable), I'm itching to work on two more rooms: the rec room on the ground floor of our townhouse, and the guest bedroom. I'm starting with the latter.

I've been known to burst into song on occasion, thanks to my penchant for Broadway musicals. Packrat that I am, I've saved almost every playbill from every show I've seen, on Broadway and elsewhere. I still have the program from the first musical I'd ever attended - Annie, at Shea's Buffalo Theater - a special birthday gift from my Aunt Ro. I'm sure la-de-da designers would scoff at me for this, but I love a room with a theme. (So suck it, designers and pretentious people!) So here's my plan and my palette, but I need some input from you guys! Help a sistah out!

This is the color palette for the room:

I'm going to paint the room with the pale green.

Around all four walls (including across doors), I'm going to paint a wide stripe in the dark pink. All of the framed playbills are going to hang inside that stripe.

The back wall of the room is going to be painted in stripes of varying widths with the wall color and the remaining colors in the palette (including the wide dark pink stripe).

Stark white bedding, colorful pillows, blah blah blah...

Ok, so there are two things I can't decide...

1. Should I paint the closet doors and the back of the bedroom door the pale green of the walls or leave them in the off-white? (Either way they're going to have the pink stripe, I just can't decide on the background color.)

2. Should I leave the ceiling off-white, or paint it? If 'paint it', which color?

I'm going to go make some summer rolls now, but when I get back, I want answers, dammit! Just kidding, I'll appreciate any comments or suggestions you give me. I'll post pictures of all our fun rooms soon, too!

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Thanks a bunch!

ETA: I forgot to add that my new addiction is the ColourLovers website. You can go to my Colourlovers page to see my obsession in action. My goal is to create color palettes of all my favorite albums from the 80s. Yes, I am lame that way.