Welcome to Texas

Well I haven't done a room reveal this week so here we go.

The first impression of our house was a little blah. It was a cute house but needed a little pizzazz; everything was just so white. Don't get me wrong white can be amazing and clean looking but our white was just dirty. My inner DIYer started yelling PAINT, PAINT, PAINT so thats exactly what I decided to do!

Like the start of all DIY projects I turned to pinterest and google for some inspiration. I knew I wanted some sort of blue I just wasn't sure if I wanted something on the darker or the brighter side of the spectrum. I dragged Andrew to Lowes after church on Sunday (something that is becoming a weekly date) and picked a few color swatches.  I was trying to get some help from the him but his suggestions were, Camo, Tech Bulldog, Bright Red, and an American flag: None of these suggestions went with my vision so I quickly allowed him to wander and look at something else while I chose 3 or 4 color options.

I started by taping color swatches to the door and that just wasn't cutting it. I couldn't stand at the street and get the real idea of what the door would look like with a one by one square taped to the it.
So I took a leap...I picked my favorite color, bought a quart of it and wished for the best because I painted it directly on the door then stepped back to admire my work.

The hubby didn't even notice until I pointed the color change out but when he gave me the ok I got busy painting the rest of it this beautiful turquoise color.

Overall I love the way it turned out. Much happier, brighter, and our style!

laundry room

My first room revel is going to be my lovely laundry room. I know it is a strange room to revel first but I am really proud of it!!

Laundry is totally the pits. I mean who honestly loves to do laundry...no one. And most laundry rooms are so ugly: the lighting is bad, they are full of wire shelving that everything falls through and there is just not enough storage.

Well our laundry room was no different and the worst part is its location in our house; it's like we can't avoid peering into this room when we get home. It is directly to the right when you walk in the front door so if the laundry room door isn't closed (which most of the time it isn't) you see right into it. And if you come into the house through the garage you walk right into the laundry room. YUCK! 

So I started day dreaming about laundry rooms like this...

Photo courtesy Houzz

or like this...

Photo courtesy DecorPad

And then I was brought back to reality that my laundry room was no were near as spacious or beautiful.

My laundry room was small, had one shelf that was to high for me to even reach on my own and an awkward row of hooks that were HIDEOUS!! I turned to pinterst to find a little inspiration, asked the hubby for some help and set the day for our laundry room redo.

We got all the matriels for this redo at three stores: Lowes, Garden Ridge, and Home Goods. We went to Lowes for the wood, nails and paint, Garden Ridge for a new rug and some accessories, and then Home Goods for some baskets and a lamp. Lowes is a great resource if you don't have a lot of tools already. Andrew thought he was going to get out of this little project because we didn't have a saw to cut the wood into the length we needed...good thing I did some research and found that Lowes cuts it into pieces for FREE!

After we brought all our pieces of wood home I painted them white to make the shelf look cleaner.  And get this...I used spray paint. It was quick, cheep, mess free, and did a great job! After the paint dried by lovely hubby hung my shelf!

You will need a level and drill for this part.

Then It was all up to me...I got in there and got busy. I organized the ugly things like detergent and dryer sheets into baskets and did a little decorating.  All in all I am so happy with how it turned out. It is much brighter and looks like it fits in our home now.

The best part is this whole project took less than an hour (not including waiting for the paint to dry) and was under 150 dollars for everything!

Happy Friday everyone and I hope you have a fun-filled weekend ahead! We're getting to spend time with my cousins and their beautiful babes and couldn't be more excited!

Our New Home

I talked yesterday finding our new home in Texas and now I wanted to share some pictures. Excuse the Iphone pictures, we weren't really expecting to find anything we like well enough to take any photos so my camera stayed at home.

This is the front of our super cute house. One of my favorite things is the attached garage.

This is the view of the living room from the master bedroom.  The light on in the picture is in the guest bedroom. We have a split floor plan which is really nice.

This is our master....It is a great size with awesome big windows to the back yard. Andrew loves that it has carpet in it.

Our master bath with double sinks and a separate potty room.  I really like it but miss a big bathtub. 

We have two guest rooms and this is the small one of the two and is a good size for guest. I didn't take a picture of the second one...sorry.

Guest Bath and the only bathtub in the house.

This is our kitchen from the dinning room perspective. It's really nice and is a great layout.

Our backyard. We are loving the deck and working on keeping the grass alive. Lilly especially loves laying back here.

So here are all the before pictures. I will be doing home post in the next month featuring each room in our home and how it looks now. To say we have been busy decorating, painting, and redoing is an understatement and I can't wait to share it with yall.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday and just think....it's almost the weekend!

xoxo,

amber