I hope you enjoyed the pictures of the kitchen renovation at our first house! Now let’s talk about our current house. We have so many ideas for this house. Like I mentioned in my first post, we built the house. However, it was not custom, and our budget prevented us from doing everything we wanted. While we moved into our house 4 years ago, we haven’t done much, yet! There are several reasons for that:
- other expenses
- wanting a clear direction for the house before starting projects
- getting the basics done (painting, installing lights, hardware, window coverings, etc.)
- Smaller projects revolve around larger projects. For example, built-ins or molding upgrades don’t make sense until after floors are replaced. If you are asking yourself why new floors would be needed in a 4 year old house, the floors were not installed well, are low-grade materials, we have an aging dog, and we want wood floors but could not afford them when we built.
- I have a hard time “decorating” if I feel there are large projects or furniture necessities in a room. I’m all or nothing in a lot of rooms. If it can’t be exactly the way I want it, I tend not to do anything at all.
- Its hard to put holes in brand new walls. It feels like such a commitment, especially since we plan to live here for a long time. Luckily, we discovered 3M, which has helped me get a few things on the walls.
- Its hard to decide where to put art/mirrors/etc that we already own and still like, but were bought for another house.
I am actually glad we have waited to do a lot of decorating. It has really given us time to figure out what works for us in this house and what doesn’t. For example, when we first moved in, I had lots of ideas on how to decorate our home office. It turns out, we don’t really need a home office. If we decide we need one in the future, there are other places we could put it. What we really could use is a mudroom. So one of our upcoming projects is turning our office, which conveniently shares a wall with the garage, into a mudroom. Our slow-pace-decorating has also given us time to try to figure out what kind of style we are going for in this house. I am drawn to lots of different decorating styles. So sometimes it’s really hard for me to decide which direction to go.
To try to really narrow down our look, I started a pinterest board called “home style,” and I am very selective about what I pin there. I think I have about 25 pins. Here are a few of them and what I like about them.
What I like from above: lucite, classic wood floors, large modern mirror, black, blingy light fixture
