Around The House

I took some photos around the living room, hall, disaster kids room and wanted to share with you what I to do with the areas. 

It was of course a cloudy day again so the photos came out okay. 

First

The living room, this is a older photo because I just decorated the mantel today.

The couch sits in the middle of the room, before I had it up against this wall and I never thought it could work in the middle. One day I moved all the furniture around to make it work and its a lot better...plus were closer to the TV. My Ikea wall lights need cord covers, the kind you can paint. I just need to go get them but it just hasn't been on the top of my list.

I also would love to have some kind of storage against the wall, for books, magazines, places to hide kids games and what not. 

My lovely new table has a pile of things that need to be put away......

I have a little white shelf I repainted a long time ago sitting in that nook to make it look built in, behind that area are the stairs to the basement...so I always put things on the edge that needs to go downstairs.

This is the opposite side of the couch.

Even thought the piano is beautiful and antique...its just way to big. Yes it makes a lovely TV stand and our 55 inch fits perfectly on top but I'd rather have something that can hid the PlayStation and the Wii. I already have the perfect piece in the garage but this piano has to go and that's a problem. We dont know if its worth a lot or who would want it, and its extremely heavy.

Some decor up top on both sides need to go

dont look at my laundry...It got folded and put away after I took the photos.

We have tall ceilings, I need to paint the walls, I love the white, I defiantly want to keep it white or a very light neutral color. But these walls haven't been painted in years. I'd also love to have art on the walls. 

Zoey got a nice new fun print dog bed. 

Now on to the entry hall

To the left is two of the boys bedroom. It used to be a office, and before a bedroom and they put the opening in to make it into a office. I'd love to close it up and give them a closet, but I'd rather fix the basement up for bedrooms and use this as a office. 

The rug needs a makeover, I can imagine lots and lots of art everywhere and a new door, something moderns, since our house doesn't match the Victorian style door.

My lovely hall table, but the lamps still need lampshades that fit it, or I get smaller lamps, and the Vincent Van Gogh art is one of my favorites but my guy hung it up way to high and I'm just not so sure about it anymore.....I did only pay $10 for it. 

Now for the scary part

This is the hall behind the entry hall and it leads to the boys rooms and bathroom. I have plans for this area. I want shelves for books that are not wide and a chalkboard wall and pictures framed with the kids art. 

I still can't belive I'm showing you this but I'm going to redo this room next, after our bedroom gets done. 

They need light color on the walls, new rug, headboards, repainted dressers and a lot of storage.

I already picked up curtains in a tan,baby blue and orange and that's going to be the color theme. I was also able to get some oops paint in the same shades.

So that's it for the areas that need makeovers, our mudroom does also but its last on the list.

Tomorrow I'll show you my mantel, I finally decorated it today.

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Decorating for valentines day?

I'm not that into decorating for  valentine's day but I enjoy making the cards with the kids and doing a family dinner. I think its more for the spending your money on silly stuff, dont get me wrong I dont mind a few gifts from my hubby but other then that I dont go crazy with decorations. 

I like bright colors in the winter, and natural decor. I bought the decorative balls from pier one imports. I had everything else already. I wanted to place them in the jar instead of having them in a bowl, this way you can see them all. Do you like valentines day decorations? I like the creative ones bloggers make, I've seen alot of cute ones out there.

Christmas Harvest Table

I was really excited to decorate my harvest table for the first time. I used a simple red metal tray to place the trees and the vase with the bulbs, which needs more but I'm running low on bulbs. I put the biggest one on a Christmas cake stand. I added the fresh boxwood to the white pitcher and placed it on a silver round tray. I found the vintage milk glass candy dish at a Savers for 2.99. I wrapped a few "fake" gifts with natural paper.

Here are some pictures without the milk glass.....I need to buy more extension cords to plug in the tree.