My dream home..

So all this home improvement has me dreaming of my dream house... I think it is so fun to go look through floor plans! ( this is a list of things I would change about the house we are in now, as well as those things that "would be nice" as well as a few "if I won the lottery" things)

• A Flat lot

• A lot big enough for a garden and a few fruit trees with room leftover for the kids to run and play as well as the dogs!

• I like a one level house with a basement over a house with two stories.

• On the ground floor there must be a bedroom with a bathroom or two bedrooms with a bathroom, ( I don't know why but I always picture one of our parents coming to live with us when they get old... my parents deny this will ever happen, and I have never asked Tyler's parents about it.)

• I like having the idea of all the bedrooms on one floor and the rest of the stuff on another (other than the whole grandparent suite thing)

• You can not see my kitchen or my family room from the front door (deal breaker)

• I would like to have a guest room. ( that isn't the storage, catch everything else room)

• I like the kitchen, breakfast nook, family room combo, just wish they weren't all the same room divided only by flooring.

• In my mind a formal dining room (only used for Thanksgiving and Christmas)is a waste of space...

• Give me lots of windows.. I love natural light! I love covered porches!
  

• I want a beautiful bulb garden in the front yard!
  

So that is some of my wishes... what are yours?

My Style...

So we have lots of projects lined up for this summer and we have been doing a few home improvement things around the house, I have been looking threw some great DIY blogs... I love them... I get lost in them and at times the kids have to come get me..lol. The funny part is, I have no style... My husband hangs everything in our house, has every move we have ever made.. and he has great taste.. so that works for us! But as I do more and more projects I find things that I don't like, and things that I just love! Here they are:

• I like solids or wide stripes, very few patterns ever catch my eye... way to busy!

• I like textures, I like fabric to have textures...(think my headboard fabric)

• I do not like flowery fabric!

• I like stone, but it is way out of my price range..:)

• I like silver over gold.

• I like light colored wood over dark.

• I don't think you can go wrong with a new coat of paint! (unless you are painting over light wood..bad!)

• I think bedrooms should have a darker more subdued flavor, while kitchens, bathrooms and family rooms should all have a brighter feel. (how to get this to flow.. I have no idea)

• Windows are made to be opened

• The simpler a window covering the better.

• If you have a big wall, you should have a big picture, or a bunch of little ones, but never both.

• I don't want clutter, crafts and pictures of people or things that I have never seen in real life are not decorations, they are clutter. The only pictures in my house are of my family, temples or of religious significance for me.

• I believe that your decorations should reflect the things you love.

• My one exception: Decorations can be useful... i.e. I use the "decorative" trivets that hang on my wall.

• I like glass shelves, and am perfectly fine with only a few things on each shelf. no need to over do it!

• Trim should be a different color that your wall.

• I love crown molding, have never had any, but it sure makes a room look rich!

• Lighting fixtures bore me. Haven't found one that makes me want to Do it myself yet.

• A large mirror can change a room.

• An objects use usually trumps "but it looks cute!"

• I love the look of bead board and board and batten. Think it is a cheap way to dress up a room!

• I don't buy things "aged" or "antiqued" ... I will add my own dings thank you!
  

So thats a taste of my style, whats yours?

The matching footboard

We made the matching foot board last night! Never realized that there was a need for one, but I LOVE IT!

pictures?

Remember my boys pics last September? the photographer who took those great pics here and here is having a giveaway!
check it out here!

Wanna see something cool?

at least to me!....

this is 4 of the 5 boxes we put in... the 5th is under the tarp in the back and we put one around the apple tree... so excited... I think I am gonna go put my "cold season" plants in! yeah! the wire thing you see leaning against the fence are where are am going to be growing my trellis plants up! I have 4 of them! wahoo!

now we need to put the watering system together! (Tyler is sooo excited... ok not really, but I am!)