Picking Paint is Like Picking a Persona

Our home is 80 years old. She's strong and beautiful. She is kinda grey-blue on the outside. She is renovated on the inside (minus the kitchen and bathrooms). We love her, but something has to change.

Inside her walls are what feels Mediterranean. Buttercream and Honey lace almost all the walls on the lower level. She needs a facelift pronto.

It looks like we have entered into a paint debate. How have you chosen what colors a room should be? Share with us, as we are lost folks!

Turning a house into a home...

**PLEASE NOTE: THESE ARE NOT OUR FURNISHINGS! THIS IS THE OLD OWNERS, BEFORE WE BOUGHT THE HOUSE!!**

Below are a handful of photos of our house, before it was our house. I keep going over and over how they decorated, and how we will, and all those saved photos I have clogging my hard drive of inspiration from other homes. We have 4,200 SF of finished space to work with and another 1,400 of unfinished SF to completely renovate. I thought I was prepared to decorate! I, in fact, am not even close to having it figured out. I thought it might be fun to post "then" and "now" photos as we make progress through the year. This is where we start...

We done moved!

After a mild hiatus, I am back to the internet once again. The actual closing on the house went much smoother than we anticipated. I credit that due to the fact the owners were not present and had their lawyer fill in for them. Alas, we have a home sweet home.

We celebrated my 30th with a slumber party of games, silent movies and junk food. Perfect way to say good bye to the youthful youth years and hello to the youthful adult years.

Thanksgiving was a fun time with the new fam down in TX!J's parents just bought an amazingly beautiful home we got to check out for the first time. They actually closed the same week as us!

Joey and I are sooooo excited to have space to make stuff now. Here is a little project he did:

That's it for now. More puppy photos to come!!

xo,
L