house tour....

I realized I haven't posted any pictures of what our house looks like lately...and since I cleaned up, I decided to take some pictures! Enjoy this little tour! :)

This is the view of the dining, kitchen & living room from the door to the garage...


Another view of the dining room *and Scout*


Breakfast nook *and Scout*


Standing at the kitchen bar, looking at our "guest hall" with the bathroom, laundry room, linen closet and 2 guest rooms...


The guest bath. I really want to paint the cabinet white.


The finished guest room (looks about the same as before)...



The former "junk room"... now the "empty room" or Queso's room...
Will someday be the nursery.



View from the breakfast nook...


Just bought these new kitchen rugs to spice things up.


View of the living room from the dining room.


I forgot to take pictures of our bedroom, but it looks exactly the same as before anyway :)
I WISH I took a picture of our garage because we TOTALLY cleaned it out! So much more space now!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this little tour... This will be good for when we do major work around the house, so we can look back and see how far we've come. We feel so blessed to have this home though. Sometimes I just stand around looking at it, and I feel so thankful.

the nursery!

Haha... I bet y'all are confused.

We are a WHILE away from reproducing, but is it weird that I already know what I want our nursery to look like??? I mean... I have already PLANNED it. Am I crazy?

here is the (surprisingly) gender-neutral bedding that I LOOOOVE.

just check out this adorable mobile.
this is the paint color. yes, i'm insane.


...and i'm in love with this print that I'd get framed.

these are just IDEAS, people.
(mom & dad, no gossiping please.)
:)

BLINDS!

Before... Lots of brown bamboo blinds...

In process... already looking better...

Viola! beautiful!

Before... more icky brown bamboo vertical panels...

After! So much brighter!

In process...

Ugh... so dark...

LOVE!!!!

I think this has been my favorite update so far :)
Now I want to add blinds in EVERY room!

flowers in our side yard

Yesterday on our anniversary, I looked outside our dining room that looks onto our side yard, and noticed that there is a tree/bush thing that's blooming with these gorgeous flowers!!! How fitting as we start a new year of our marriage!







Any idea what they are??? :)

**Edited to add: They are pink magnolias!
This will look soooo cool when this tree gets really big!

the breakfast nook project

Okay, my next order of business is to update the breakfast nook a little. We've done absolutely NOTHING since we moved in.

This table belonged my grandmother (Mimi), so it's sentimental, but I'd like to refinish the whole thing to a dark brown... My first choice would be to paint it white and do some distressing but Ryan has a major problem with white furniture. Go figure.. Regardless, I'm not a huge fan of the current hunter green legs and the light wood top.

The valances were left here by the owner. While I think they fit the windows nicely, we're not crazy about the Asian-style print, and we think we could do better. I'm thinking a dark red color with a pattern?

The bamboo blinds will stay, I'm pretty sure. I actually don't hate them on these windows...

A rug is in question. I think the room is big enough that it could use a rug under that table, but Ryan thinks rugs in the kitchen are weird.

So vote in the poll (on the right) about whether you think we need a rug or not.
Your vote will seriously help this debate!!!!

halleluyah!!!!

I feel like that person who says "NO MORE WIRE HANGERS!!!!" but instead its...

no more bamboo blinds!!!

That's right... yesterday I finally bit the bullet and ordered faux-wood blinds to put in our living room and dining room! Say goodbye to our ugly bamboo vertical panels!!!!!!!

The new ones will be delivered in 2 weeks, and then we get to install them!
Wish us luck! :)