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new home sweet home: last minute details

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Details, details. 

This first one isn't related as a must-have-detail in order to move in, but I did have fun finally playing around with this fun fabric I've had for OVER A YEAR now. I fell in love with it at a local fabric sale, bought all they had then went online to order more. I even chose our dining room paint color for this particular fabric and so of course it matches perfectly. Now to just have it made into fabulous window treatments...and to come up with some explanation to Chad as to why there is PINK in the dining room.

Errrrr, oops.


Shutters are on and being painted black, then once the railing "dries out" more, they will finish painting it. We didn't go with the same exact "x railing" of our plan, because it looked a tad too busy, so we improvised and did this. The great part about building is even at the end, you can change your mind and make up whatever you want. I text a pic to our builder, he said yeah we can make that.
Done.


champagne bronze + navy in the powder room, one of my favorite rooms in the whole house!


Never been so excited about concrete in all my life. But oh dear Lord, our poor yard!


master closet doors were painted SW Porpoise, along with our door coming in from the garage. I wish I had painted even more doors this color (and I probably will eventually) It's a great dark gray, almost black - one shade down from SW's famous Urbane Bronze. I highly recommend.


and some glam lights were added in the master bath too! 
Not sure why everything looks so dark in this picture...here's an older post that has a pic of the light fixtures. I had never even seen them in person when I picked them out but ohhhh yes, right decision.
They're amaze. 


Now to decide on even more last minute (VERY last minute) details such as uhhhh mirrors for this bathroom. I seriously think that is the very last decision to be made.

and I can hear the angel choir singing now, can't you?
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh

obsessions: doors and windows

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

I posted this photo back in August as we were still waiting for our french doors to be installed in the new house living room. They were installed, but then we were waiting for the transom windows to arrive, which will go above. 


This photo has been our inspiration for our decision to trade out the fireplace in our house plan to french doors/windows and do a built in entertainment center on the other wall for our TV. We never saw a single photo of the exact french doors/windows we would get, but trusted our builder 100%.
 It turned out even better than we envisioned.

Our living room space is not a huge space. It's not any bigger than our living room now, but our new one has 13 ft ceilings. As much as I loooove a gorgeous fireplace, we'd probably never use it  (Um, Chad will hardly let it get above 68 degrees in this house!!) It stung a little making that decision, but the better choice for us would be french doors to open up on to the deck (perfect for entertaining) and all of the natural light would make the room look more open!

More inspiration...








I love the idea of dark hardwood floors, light walls, light drapes.


Or maybe do fun layers like this...



I've even thought about doing black french doors. Obsessed with this...



or gray french doors. So chic.


The options are endless.

The transom windows were installed yesterday and here's the final view. A wall full of doors and windows...and all that natural light. That glorious, glorious LIGHT!
 (and this was even when it was cloudy late yesterday evening)


View from the back of the house...


Looking out from this wall of doors and windows, well...sure, I wish we had stunning views of rolling pastures, pecan trees, or hey a beach maybe? Our view will be a small deck, which they will begin very soon so they can begin siding back there, and trees. Yes, trees pretty darn close to our house, but hey I do love it. It's cozy, private, and I'm determined to plant lots of pretty azaleas, dogwood trees, etc... to give it more color. 

Maybe one day a patio and more, who knows - maybe a setup like this...


Ok, sooooo we may have to win the lottery first but you get the idea.

More updates to come!

**Oh and I finally got all of my new house posts labeled so they will all now show up under "Home Sweet Home" tab at the top of the blog. Organization makes me happy. Hooray**
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