Color Pallets

Going to Home Depot and staring at the rows upon rows of paint colors can seem a little overwhelming. Eric and I have already put a good deal of thought in to the paint colors we want to use in the house and are using a very intentional color pallet. We are both naturally drawn to earthy, subdued colors and have pretty much decided on a color scheme of grays, browns and ochers with a little hint of muted blue/green for the house. The only wall that is staying as is will be the back wall in the loft area which will remain the lovely, earthy, brick red that it currently is. Here is a picture of some color swatches I picked up at home depot to use as inspiration. You can also see in the bottom of this photo a few samples of flooring that I picked up (more on flooring in the near future).

When I look at all these paint samples they bring me a lot of happiness, I can just picture living in a space with these colors and they make me feel very peaceful.

The wall color I am the most excited about at the moment is gray. For some reason I am crazy about gray rooms, in all shades and temperatures. Right now the plan is to use gray (in various shades) in the master bedroom, master bathroom and guest bedroom. I've been collecting photo inspiration for gray rooms and here are some pictures from design blogs that I've gathered. These are just a few of the gray rooms I'm digging right now.

 

Makes me excited to get in there and actually start painting! Right now Eric and I are in the midst of acquiring a home loan and homeowners insurance. Yes, this involves lots of paperwork :-P But it's all good, we're getting a house!

First Interior Pictures

Here are some pics I took while we were in the very early stages of starting paperwork on the house. I will post more detailed before shots once we close and I can actually spend some time in the house. Still, this will give you an idea of what it looks like, we think it has great potential!

Living room, main floor. Look at that fireplace!

Living room with a view in to the dining/kitchen area

Master bedroom

Hallway with linen closet and Eric :-) You can also see one of the spare bedrooms to his left

Spare bedroom, this will be my studio when it's fixed up

Loft looking down in to the living room. Logan is checking out the loft area.

Loft area, I love these funky windows and the brick color on the back wall is totally staying

Living room looking toward the dining room, loft, and out on to the back deck

Back deck looking in

So as you can see there is lots that needs to be done, the first things we are planning are replacing the appliances, redoing the floors, fixing the leaky pipes, some minor roof repair and painting of course :-)

New Year, New House

Our lovely future home in the snow on Christmas day.

I've never been much of a blogger. Every time I try to start one I realize I have nothing to say. However it is now a new year (hello 2011!) and I finally feel that I have something worth blogging about. My husband Eric and I have recently begun the adventure of buying our first home together. So far it has been relatively painless but we are still in the middle of the it, closing Feb 10th, so we'll see how I feel at the end :-)  When we saw this little (well, actually it's pretty big) fixer upper we just fell in love and had to make an offer on it. A whole lot of paperwork later we are in the midst of buying our dream home.

 Sure, we know it's going to be a lot of work to fix this house up to it's full potential, but we have a lot things in our favor. These include unbridled enthusiasm, family conveniently close by (my parents live three houses away) and the fact that we got this house as a foreclosure and it was a steal! It's going to be a long slow process and that is one of the reasons I wanted to blog about this, to keep track of all the improvements we make over the years. Hopefully I can look back on this blog years from now and feel really satisfied that with how far we've come.

Luckily for me, Eric and I have pretty similar tastes when it comes to houses so agreeing on a place was easy. We both like lots of exposed woodwork, high ceilings, and funky architectural details. We love this house because it feels like a mountain cabin or ski lodge and we are big fans of that feeling. We are not big fans however of antlers on the wall or overly "cabiny" decor. When I first started thinking about how we would decorate I looked at a lot of cabins for inspiration and found many of them to be too old fashioned or too "cabiny" So I started doing a lot of research on interior design and decorating blogs and I finally found the design term that fits my personal style. Yay! I didn't know my style had a term attached to it! I have found that if I search for "rustic modern" most of what comes up is right up my ally. So that's what I'm calling this blog. I'm super excited to document the changes in our house over time and how it will grow and develop. Interior pictures are coming soon as well as some pictures of my design inspiration.