The Walls That Talk

Both of our families are coming for Thanksgiving this year which means I'm feeling a push to get our guest rooms ready for visitors. Today's post is about our downstairs guest room. It was fairly quick to do and I found some great deals which I'm excited to share. I didn't have a before picture of when we moved in, but here is the photo from Zillow if that helps. The walls were a yellowed beige...which matched the trim. I like trim to stand out a bit and this color wasn't doing it. I painted the walls Grayish (A Sherwin Williams color) but with Valspar paint. It only required one coat and took two hours. I rained all day here...which meant the morning's soccer games were canceled and we had plenty of time to focus on this room. I found that piece of art between the windows at Target last week and while I wasn't sure where I wanted to put it...I knew I loved it. It was on clearance at 75% off and was only $11.99! I also knew that I needed two se...

Phew! Moving is exhausting! We've owned our home for one week and it's safe to say things are chaotic. It wouldn't be so hard if we both didn't have to work, get the kids to school, remember to practice Lilly's violin, do homework, lesson plans, write papers and eat. We're also getting all new plumbing throughout the house this week...and the new kitchen is going in next week.  All that to say, our house is far from feeling complete.  I was able to complete one room though today after our wonderful friends helped us move in.  This was definitely the "low-hanging-fruit" room. All the furniture was stuff we already had and the previous owners did a great job with their paint color selection. One of my favorite things about this house is the attention to details throughout. Each room off of our foyer has french doors, as you can see in this room and I love them! I also love the wainscoting, and the tall windows.  One room down...a lot mor...

Happy New Year! I don't know about you but our household is pretty excited to say Adios to 2017. It's been a year of patience, tackling the unexpected and trying to stay positive when Plan A (and B) falls through. We spent most of 2017 with one goal: Sell our current home and build our dream home. Spring was focused on getting our house ready to sell. We put it on the market in June and it sold in two days. The next month was full of packing and in August we moved into a tiny apartment with our two girls. In October we began hitting obstacle after obstacle. I started to explain them all in detail and realized I was boring myself. So I'll spare you the drama. The bottom line: we realized in November that perhaps God was telling us to go in a different direction; so that's what we did. Turns out not many people are selling homes in December. There were only a few on the market but we ended up finding one that we fell in love with. We put in a low-ball offer and g...