2nd Attempt

 At our last house, I always had color and lots of it mostly on the walls. When we moved to our current house, it had all white walls.  I was excited at the chance to start fresh in every room and really get it right.  Well anyone who knows me knows I change my mind a lot so to think I will every really get anything right can happen just not for long.   First off I knew I wanted to go neutral on the walls.  The first space we painted was the living room and it wasn't what I had exactly planned out the color was a little too gold but it still matched the big canvas I had bought for inspiration so we left it and went with it.  Below was the first after picture I took  after we painted and decorated which later we mounted the TV and added more curtains but I was never really in love and the room never truly felt like home or that it was "us".

Most of you probably saw my facebook post about the curtains but in case you didn't, one day Carson was playing peek a boo and pulled one of the rods halfway out of the wall.  I had to take the other half down and when I really looked began to realize maybe I liked the windows without curtains better.  However the way it was set up that wall just really needed something else besides a mounted TV and that is why we had got them in the first place.  Well after some talking and convincing Matthew agreed to let me re paint and get a "few" new accessories.

 The first thing I did of course was to scour pinterest for some new ideas.  I like to think I'm creative but I'm really just a big copycat! I really don't know what we used to do for ideas before Pinterest was around.  I use it for everything anymore.  

An idea for the color scheme came from this.  We have light brown microfiber and since it was just barely a year old, it had to stay so I loved seeing some colors with it. 

 Absolutely loved these ceiling medallions like most Pinterest projects theirs are much better than mine!

 Idea for our entry

Here is what we ended up with

We painted the room mostly tan (twice actually, the first color was a complete fail, instead of tan it turned out a weird shade of purple)  with 2 accent walls the one with the windows and the wall our stairs are in in the kitchen, moved the furniture a bit, mounted the TV over the fireplace instead of in between the windows, and got some new decor that I love !  

 Someday  hopefully sooner than later we will  replace those sweet fans and get some bookcases for under our ceiling medallions.  The space there still looks funny with it being so empty and it's one big wall.  

Closeup of my spray painted medallions 

 Our entry way, idea used from Pinterest

 Closeup of the pillows I made.  I ended up making 5 chevron, 2 green patterned and bought 2 orange.  We will never be short on pillows in this room!  

Since all the decor in the kitchen/dining area was red too I had to  wanted to change the decorations in there as well.   The picture is terrible but you can see my trellis curtains I love.  (I spotted them a while ago in Target and have been dying to find a spot to use them, I actual saw them in blue first but was even more excited to see them in a burnt orange color when I went shopping for stuff).  I also have always wanted a big spoon and fork and so I found the perfect ones at Hobby Lobby and the Eat letters.  They don't look that big in the picture but trust me in real life they are pretty large!  

Overall I really do like how it turned out.   I feel like it's a lot cozier with how we changed the furniture around and the look is more us!  I'm sure we will add stuff here and there, it's just to expensive to buy everything at once!  Decorating isn't cheap!  

Our Bedroom

When we first purchased our house last May, our room looked like this

Blah, blah,blah.  And for awhile it looked like this,  I wasn't going to put anything up on the walls until we had painted so bare it stayed until we finally painted earlier this year!  

 After well over a year we finally have somewhat of a finished bedroom. We painted, the hubby made me headboard and did a great job on it.  He knew I wanted a sleigh bed/ upholstered look and  he nailed it!  You can't really tell from the picture but the back is curved to mimic a sleigh type look and the middle is a creme canvas.  We got matching side tables and the latest addition was the 3 new family canvases to go over the bed.   I have known what I wanted up there ever since we painted months ago but just had to wait for the right family pictures to put up there!  Minus our dresser situation ( we still have the white ones) it feels pretty much finished!  

I forgot to take a picture but for a different wall I made flower boxes, here is an example and tutorial here.  I didn't follow all the directions but got them to turn out and love them.  I used creme and purple flowers to match our room!  Easy and cheap wall decoration!  Thanks again Pinterest!

Our New House

It's finally home sweet home!

  The walkout basement, that I love! And you can see the deck above and patio below.  Furniture to come someday!

The living/great room.  Pretty much the only finished room in the house.  We still need to mount the TV sometime and put up a clock I bought for above the TV that I love, but that's all minor. 

  My favorite part, no walls in between the living spaces.  One big space for the                   kitchen/dining/living rooms

None of the other rooms are finished yet.  In case you want to see more, I did post an album of the whole house on facebook.  I  will wait until each room is done to put them on here.  We have lots of little things to work on over the next few months. 



Moved In

What an exhausting month we have had.  We officially are in our new house, so exciting!! I can't believe we are finally in, what a long journey this has been.  We first saw this house last November and began dreaming it would someday be ours.  Now many months later, we actually live here and all our stuff is here.  Is everything unpacked and where we would like? Absolutely not, is it a work in progress, sure and I know it will be for quite some time.  Last time we moved and did all our house projects we didn't have a little one and I wasn't pregnant so this time around everything will take a lot longer.  We basically have nap times and after Noah goes to bed to really get stuff done.  This house is quite different than the last though and there isn't anything that NEEDS done just things I want to do.  The whole house was painted white and so I of course would like to paint a lot of rooms.  We did get the living room finally painted after 4 days of working on it.  Now we are getting ready to move onto the dining/kitchen areas. We bought paint yesterday so this week that is our project.  After that I will probably just stop for awhile and worry about bedrooms/bathrooms later. I would like to do the decorating different than our last house too, so with buying a lot of new things I have to pace myself.  This move was expensive!  Our new living room furniture should be arriving any day, then I will take pictures of our completed living room.  That will probably be the only room I really finish and get fully decorated for awhile so we can go on extra spending freeze for awhile and save up some money for Carson coming in September since our kids are quite expensive with our very high deductible. 

So far I just have to say, I love our new house. I love the set up, I love all the extra space, I pretty much love it all.  I feel so truly blessed to own our new home! 

Noah has been doing better this last week, he just didn't really know what to think. the first week  In the old house he would just walk all over the place, explore and look for me when he didn't see me.  Well in the new one he didn't know where to begin to look to find me.  He was scared of the hallway and wouldn't walk down it without us.  He never really wanted to play, he just wanted to sit on laps and watch TV.  Well the last few days have been much better he is starting to walk around a little more and will play now.  He still would rather bring the toys into the living room rather than play in his playroom, which is okay with me it's better than having all the toys in the living room like we used to! 

The yard is our one issue.  The yard is not very flat and on the side of the driveway there is a retaining wall which isn't the best play area for him.  He is scared of the hills and when he does decide he can walk down them, I'm then scared he's going to fall down them.  We do have some flat areas but right now he just wont' stay on them, he wants to throw his balls wherever he shouldn't go.  We are taking an outside break now anyway since we have the influx of locusts/cicadas (not sure what they are).  They are awful.  The shells are all over our trees/ yard.  The bugs themselves are flying everywhere.  You can't hardly walk through the back yard without getting pelted by one and the yard is just gross to walk through since they are sitting everywhere and boy are they loud. I'll be very glad when this period is over.  It's crazy that we pretty much moved out here just in time to deal with them.    At least it won't be evey year!

Will post pictues hopefully this week, darn furniture is the hold up!