Gray, Gray, Gray

So it turns out it is really hard to pick a good gray. At least it was for me. I swear I got a million different samples and couldn't find one I liked. I finally found one that looked neutral enough...a gray-gray!


These are my kids bedrooms. I love the pinky-purple color!

Vandalism

A couple of weeks ago we had some lovely kids break into our home and vandalize it. They painted our windows, threw paint every where, knocked over 5 gallon bucks of paint, used a screw driver to punch holes in the dry wall, rode their bikes through the house and made holes in the wall with their handle bars, etc. Needless to say they had a lot of fun. We filled a police report and with in minutes they found the kids; problem being one was 8 and the other 9. Thanks to their young age the police told us they couldn't prosecute them. So to make a long story short we had to replace trim, re-texture our walls, re-prime, and scrap off a lot of paint. It was a ton of extra work and money, but mostly a lot of stress and frustration. Here are a few pictures of their lovely art work.

Update!

So this is a quick post without any pictures because I don't have any time. I spent my morning meeting up with my counter guy, my trim guy, my very kind volunteer painter (he happens to be my father-in-law and he has been so kind and such a huge help), and a mill work supplier. Last night I saw my painter :), home depot *twice*, my cabinet guys, and my tile installers aka my super sweet and talented husband and his brother, who has also been a huge help.

In case you haven't guessed; life is CRAZY! I do have pictures and questions that I need to post, all about carpet, door knobs, back splashes, etc. And I have some lovely pictures of the artwork our lovely vandals left us. It is all to come as soon as I can catch my breath!

PS Hip Hip Hooray! My cabinets are starting to be put in and I am so excited. I already know what is going in each drawer!

Pendant Lights

The last couple of weeks have literally been a blur. While my husband is working himself to death trying and get things finished up so we can move on to the next stage, I have been dragging the kids from store to store to store trying to find the best deals on wood floors, carpet, tile, lights, etc. The kids have been champs but they are starting to get worn out, okay we are all starting to get worn out.

I have been looking at a million lights trying to decide what I want to do/can do. I think it would be fun to add some fun pendants over my island. Here are just a few of what I have found.




I don't know why this picture is so small. It is a clear cracked glass pendant. I will try to figure out how to make the picture bigger.




My favorite two are the first pendant, the round glass one, and the teal one. Does that come as any surprise. What do you like or do you have any suggestions

Lights???

How do you feel about this chandelier? Do you like it? How would you feel about it over my stairs in our entry way? HELP Please!!!!

Patios?

Big, little, wide, skinny, square, rectangle, curvy? What is your opinion on back patios. I am thinking fairly large and probably not square. (kind of like yours Brooke, you totally inspire me!) Let me know what you think. And how about a built in fire pit? Made out of the same rock as the front of our house. Stamped concrete?

Sorry today I just have a lot of questions and no answers. Ask my husband, I am good at that these days!

House Pictures!

I have had some requests for pictures of our house. These are a little behind the current status so when I go over tonight I will try to update.

This of course is the front of our house. It isn't the best angle! We were worried that our garage would look HUGE. It does but not as bad as we thought it would. This angle makes it look even bigger. The window at the top of the garage is our bonus room window. Looking at it like this I think it looks really funny. Like we shoved it up to high, but if you are up in the room it has to be there in order to see out it. If you have any ideas on how to make it look a little better let me know. Maybe shutters, flower box, something fancy with the stucco, etc.


This is just an up close of our entry way. The window on the left is my laundry room and the window on the right is over our stairs. From inside the house this is one of my favorite parts! The cement forms are set up to poor our porch.


This is the back of our house. Yes, I know it is straight. We did this on purpose to cut down on cost. I hope once we get the patio and steps in it will give it a little dimension. Honestly it doesn't really bother me the way it is.



This is the up close of my patio doors (patio french to be specific!) and the 3 windows in our family room. I love the windows because they are low enough that the kids can stand on the floor and see out them without having to climb up on a couch or something.


We know have our roof on, our windows in and most of our exterior doors up. Our master bathtub got put in yesterday so I will try to get a picture of it and get it posted soon.