...Inspiration...

So we are about to paint our house. And as usual I like to scoure the world for examples. We go on drives, walks, cruise the Internet, look at blogs, buy magazines! I obsess! But I thought I would show you some of the ideas I like for the house. I am terrible at siting, so please please let me know if you know where the picture is from so I can give them credit.

Here are some shingles we really liked. Some people like them jagged and wavy, it reminds me of ToonTown in Disneyland. So we did ours in even horizontal lines like this.

And I am still not over my yellow kick! And I think a green house with a yellow door sounds amazing!

So here are some of my yellow doors...

This one is my favorite, the pale yellow is what I am leaning towards.

Who wouldn't want to visit someone with a yellow door. It just radiates happiness.

I thought about gray for the house color. But just for a moment. I think a green door on a gray house is beautiful.

A yellow door, but the shingles were too even for me. There is a fine line with shingles.

I love it, they painted the trim around the door yellow too. I think it looks good here, but I like doors that are trimmed out in a color. To make the door pop more.

This is how we were thinking about doing our posts, but I don't love this style, it's a little too busy for me. I think it is very well done in this picture.

I take back what I said before, this one is my very favorite. The color yellow, the shingles, the color of the house. Or green is a little more green and less gray. This picture captures everything I want and love!

Rearranging....

Well now that most of the projects are wrapping up (or so I thought) we have been trying to pull out house back together. But I just kept getting hung up on the placement of furniture. My sister Kami has 'the eye' and I kidnapped her on Sunday to come redo our arrangement. She space our furniture, when we lived in the upstairs of our house, perfectly. As shown in the picture, that has been seen many times, below.

I had our couch next to some built in shelves, but it was just too heavy in that corner of the room.

And the table behind the couch was just okay.

Well in 30 minutes Kami (pronounced like Amy with a K., Remember that name, she's going to be famous when we start a staging company) transformed our home.

Flipping couches around, angling chairs, unrolling carpets, widdling small dolls out of wood. You name it she did it! And I am in awe. I would have never placed furniture where she placed it, but some how after she does it, it's like... How did I not think of that, it was just meant to be there.

She even convinced me to keep a rug I thought might be too loud.

Then she put a painting over the mirror and made this side table complete. It always looked like it was missing something. (This side table is my next project. It was given to me by a family I nanny for, and I want to put silver leaf on it.)

So it looks like this. (I cannot remember where I found this picture. So if anyone knows let me know so I can site it and give them credit.) Kami's (Amy with a K. Keep up with me) next stop was the built in shelf unit. That I have hated for as long as we have lived here.

My pathetic attempt to decorate, it is much better here then what it was a year ago, bleak.

Kami's vision which will be complete after pictures are developed, and those 2 cream frames are painted black... There might be something else but I'm not sure. Kam, (that's what I call her. Like aim with a K. I think your getting it ; ) ) I'll call you tomorrow to check. Now to the bedroom.

Our sad little dresser top. A stolen picture from my mom. Even though she said I could borrow it, but now denies it. And sand from out honeymoon in the Bahamas. It just needed something more. So perhaps you remember this nasty mirror from our bathroom. That Drew literally with his two hands ripped from the wall. Well I cleaned it off and found a new home.

A perfect resting spot for my perfumer. It's like I have my very own Nordstrom.

Of course Kami came in and adjusted everything.

Even put my perfume at a perfect angle. For a final touch she even found a perfect home for our H that my friend Carly made for me.

And just as quickly as she appeared, she was gone... In a whirlwind of style and grace... Thanks Kami for finally making our house feel adjusted. In other news I got my peg board hung and bathroom organized.

Finally some method to the madness. Now all I have to do, after all said projects are completed, is paint this rocking chair. I think I found the perfect blue.

Another Martha Stewart special... Should be just delightful.

So much to do....

***Yellow***

Happy 200th post to me and to anyone who has stuck with my blog! Well I finally got my yellow!

The redd table worked perfectly with our old couches. After we got our free couches we needed another change. This may be our annual tradition, painting the table a new color.

This is a better visual of the color before. It was actually after I had finished sanding.

When I first opened the can of paint I was not so sure.

But I LOVE LOVE LOVE how it turned out! I tried a glaze on it, but didn't love it.

Then I went to Anthropologie and bought a knob to top it off.

Like a match made in heaven.

I can't get over how much I love it. It has brightened up our whole room! Fabulous! Now stay tuned for my 201st post to see what I'm doing with these knobs.

The suspense is killing you... I know right!!

Yellow....

I'm on a huge yellow kick! And until I get the money to reupholster my couch I need something yellow in my living room.

And if I can't have this couch right now.

Then I am going ti repaint our coffee table yellow I am over the redd. I loved it. But it's time for a change.

I just can't find the perfect shade of yellow. This isn't a decision you can just rush into. Have you ever sanded down furniture to paint it? Miserable! (Apparently you don't need to sand as much as I did, but I still don't enjoy it.)

All of my swatches! Sometimes I want to paint it green too. Can't decide.

But don't yellow accent pieces look amazing?!

Oh and I need this rug too! So many things!

It's a Need... Not Just a Want!

I need to reupholster this couch...

To look like this couch!

I need....

I need...

NEED!!!!

(couch/images via anthroplogie.com)