Design Boards...again.

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I keep playing with the whole design board thingy...here is what I came up with so far for the family room.

I honestly have no idea what artwork, lamps, etc...are going to go in that room! 

The rug was impulse by this morning from RugsUSA...I hope it matches in person!

Design Boards?

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I love looking at design boards from others...but wow, I tried making one a few month's ago and they are harder than they look!

  I wanted to see how some of my ideas for the front workroom would look all together.  Here is my first feeble attempt at a design board...

In other news, we took the first of two trips to Ikea yesterday to get some of the furniture that we need for the house.

Of course, I didn't have my real camera, but here are a few awful phone pictures! 

I am inspired by the colors of these boxes.  The cardboard tan for the walls and the raspberry pink boxes I will buy for somewhere else in the room.  Hopefully, to put on the Expedit desk thingy...but I haven't made a final decision on purchasing that yet.

My kids scarfing down the meatballs and ribs...note the many used napkins!  They made quite the mess.

Shutters...

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...we have them!

  Today when we stopped by the counter tops were installed and they were laying the carpet.

  Crossing my fingers they finish soon!

Paint Colors...again

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I'm pretty sure I've talked about this before, but I am going to talk about it again.  Paint colors. (I am using you all as my place to talk about this out loud.) The hubby says I need to pick them all out right away so he can paint the house before we move in.  I already told him the downstairs was all my brain could process right now!

At first, I was going to go tan in the entry way.  Good, right?  Can't go wrong there!  Buuut....now I am leaning towards gray.  I love gray.  I worry though that people will think my house feels like a prison....why am I thinking about paint colors for MY house that other people will like?  lol

Picking the curtain fabric for the workroom changed up my color thoughts in there a little bit.  I originally wanted that room to be dark blue, which did not go with my fabric.  I decided to go ahead with the dark blue in the dining room instead...after seeing this picture.  I already have a brown table and am purchasing 4 white slipcovered chairs.

The family room, kitchen and dining nook are easy!  They are going to get the same Upward blue from Sherwin Williams that we had in the old house.

I was pretty settled on a light pink powder room....but...hmm...after looking at pictures online, I might be back to the drawing board there.

Maybe brown instead?

And finally...light green for the workroom.  But again, I am not sure about that.  Personally, I would LOVE to go light pink that room, but I don't think McKinley would ever do his homework in there if I did that.

My thoughts were a few more fun colors towards the front of the house in the smaller, closed off rooms...and more neutral colors in the larger spaces.

Thanks for letting me talk it out and I can't promise I won't want to talk about it again! It will be fun to see what colors we actually end up with!

Floorplan

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Here is the floorplan to our house...well our house, the Lord willing!  I will be on pins and needles until we close, which should be the beginning of June.

I am trying to decide on paint colors for when we move, I even dabbled with a mood board...but those are harder than they look, so I gave up!  I know that the back area of the house will have the same blue we had just painted at our old house.  I would like a serene feeling throughout the house so I am leaning towards lots of light grays and blues.  However, I would love the front "workroom", where our computer will be, to have a fun, bright vibe!

I think I have finally narrowed it down to this fabric for curtains in the room.  I like that I can carry some of the colors in the fabric to the back of the house and maybe even pull out one of the pink hues out for the powder room.

Here is the fabric used on bar stools.

And some paint color options from using Sherwin Williams Chip It!

House Update

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I forgot my camera, so I snapped a few pictures with my phone...which takes horrible pictures!

Harajuku Sailor Girls

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I love how this design came out and Evie does too, which makes it all worthwhile!

"Pretty in Pink" Flamingo

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The upside to living with my mom and sleeping in the sewing room is that I have had a little more time to sew.

  I will be listing this darling little set over on Facebook this evening at 9PM EST.  Evie picked the appliques and because she is quickly nearing the end of cutesy clothes...I will make her anything she says she agrees to wear at this point!

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Empty House

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It's silly, but today is the first day I have felt like looking at these pictures.

  We all looked a little rough from moving all week, but I am happy we stopped to snap one last picture in our old house.