Living Room Progress

The hubby, furbabies and I have been in our new home for one week now and although there are still a couple "off limits" areas, we have settled in quite a bit. Today we were able to make some more home progress by buying purchasing our first washer, dryer, lawn mower, and weed-eater. It was tons of fun as you can image. (I'll talk more about that later.) Luckily, we were also able to pick out a couple more exciting items (well exciting for me, probably not that exciting for Brent) that are moving us one step closer to pulling our living room together.

Basically, I've already made a detour from my original living room design plan. Shocking? Not really. It's what I do. A girl like me can't walk through any home decor store or flip through any design magazine without coming up with a totally new idea of the "perfect room". This time the design deviation came from spotting this pretty lady at World Market.

I never even knew I liked yellow (in home decor) until I found this curtain. I never really considered it as a main color option, but I'm really pumped about it now. All of a sudden, grey and yellow are the bomb and I'm going with it. 

So I haven't purchased these curtains yet, (waiting to use my coupon, girl) but it is now the jumping off point for our living room design. What we did get to buy today, thanks to my sweet in-laws, is this new jute rug.

Looking good right? Our other new edition is the yellow pillow. I love the combination of the natural woven rug and casual yellow pillow with the more elegant grey pillows. The most interesting design usually stems from unexpected combinations and these pillows do just that for me. I just can't wait to get the curtains in place. Bring on the grey and yellow!

Yeah, that last picture has nothing to do with the new living room scheme, but they are just too darn cute not to include. If only were that well behaved all the time.

Until next time...

The Wonders of Paint

With the help of many wonderful friends and family, we have been able to paint an absurd amount over the past nine days. Although we love this new home, the paint choices of the previous owner were a little out there. I just don't think a pink hallway fits everyone. 

My husband/editor has told me that I must (as if I wouldn't) post before and after pictures of all the finished rooms. I'll be doing that room by room so I can share more of the details, but for now here are some in progress photos for your viewing pleasure. 

Note: For best effect please view the original photos by clicking here. 

The paint cans we started with. We ended up with tons more.

Living Room paint going grey.

Living/Dining Room

Working on the Living Room trim.

Our very happy helper, Dwayne.

Living Room - Looking pretty good, huh?

Th happy Homeowners.
(This is still early in the day. Not sure how long the smiles lasted.)

Check out that sweet dining room.

I have no excuse.

Taping out is the worst, but it's super helpful in the long run.

The newly painted grey hallway.
I just love that our step stool matched the old hallway paint.

The green tiled toned down a bit with the Wood Smoke paint.
It looks much nicer with our new shower curtain. 

New floating shelves above our toilet. Thanks, Doug!

Mom and Dad our amazing.
They tackled our dreaded wallpapered guest room.

Go, Momma, Go!

Doesn't that look like fun?
I vote no.

After the wallpaper had been fully demolished. 

The AWESOME new guest room color.
LOVE!

Another look at the guest room walls.

Strangely enough, the doors have taken the longest to complete.
Such a pain.

Getting started on the master bedroom.
That paneling had to go.

Paneling be gone.

Looking much better.

I love how much brighter this room became with the
white trim and painted paneling.

Super Mom

The start of painting in the "den".

Lauren, another wonderful helper.

The bookcase needed to brighten up a bit.

The bookcase looks SO much better with a coat
(or many coats) of white paint.

We opted for a two-toned look in our den.
It is looking fabulous.

So there's the start. I can't wait to show you all more. We'll be moving in next Saturday so we'll finally have some furniture in our newly painted rooms. How exciting. 

Until next time...