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I have almost 200 photos to upload and update for my Project 365. Ooooops.
However, since that's not going to happen while I'm at work, I shall update you on my current status.
The house is officially in escrow, and I'm looking at a closing date of August 12th. OH SHI- THIS IS HAPPENING. Cue happpy dance! Please, come along for a little breakdown how I envision my forthcoming domicile.
My color scheme is earthy, jewel tones. I’ll talk you on a hypothetical walk through my hypothetical house :) And this is all going to be over a long period of time - years, I suspect. So with some help from my Pintrest boards, please join me!
The outside of the house is currently a slate-blue, with [dirty] white trim. I want to get it resanded and painted to a deep foresty green, with crisp white trim. Since I have plans to put lots of pretty flowering things in pinks, fuchias, and periwinkle, I think the green will set them off nicely.
The Living Room, which is what you first walk into, will have deep honey-gold walls, with a lighter shade for the ceiling, and white trim (white trim will be a unifying feature of my place, so pretty much consider that for all rooms from here on out). I want to use this amazing technique, to give it a lovely brocaded look. My couch is sage green, and I have pillows in sage, purple, chocolate brown, and multi-colored with green, gold, burgundy, violet and brown. I’ll have solid wood pieces, like the coffee table and two end tables (one square, one round), my desk, the forthcoming grandmother clock, the telephone chair, as well as the TV and TV stand. Also getting my dad’s vintage recliner from the 60’s, and I’m going to reupholster in burgundy.
The front room, or shall henceforth be known as the Music Room, is to the right of the Living Room. Eventually, part of the wall/doorway will be taken out and replaced with French doors, and the bamboo floor from the front room (and kitchen) will be continued into this room for continuity and to make the whole front space feel more open and cohesive. So it will have the same honey-gold walls, and will house my piano, probably the hall tree and/or the fainting couch.
Continuing from the Living Room into the Kitchen, which has beautiful blue slate backsplash all the way up to the hickory cabinets, and stainless steel appliances. The walls in here will be done in sage green with chocolate brown accents, to keep the earthy tones with a calm, soothing feel, and will tie in the blue slate with my sage green dishes. My little table and bentwood chairs will be in the breakfast “nook” (it’s really too big to be a nook, but not large enough to be a dining room), probably anchored with a rug, hopefully with all 3 blue/green/brown tones.
Heading to the right of the kitchen is a small Hallway, with the stairs going up to the loft, which I tell you I am strongly inclined to paint these awesome book stairs. For a bibliovore like myself, how perfect is that??? Although they are reasonable nice wood steps, so… maybe I’ll paint something that can be attached to the steps instead? Anybooty, to the left (across from the stairs) is a niche that I think would work really well for my two large bookshelves. Or possibly my white cabinet, which I could FINALLY sand down and repaint, and maybe in one of those aforementioned kitchen colors, like a chocolate brown with sage green on the inside, or some such thing. That cabinet, which currently houses a lot of tchotchkes and stuff, hair supplies and sweaters, will be repurposes to display my lovely glass antiques, my cheap-thrills (I’m cheap, but they thrill me) multi-colored martini and champagne glasses, with cookbooks and glass vases in the lower section.
To the left out of the hallway (it barely qualifies as a hallway, but I’m calling it that), is the Master Bedroom. It’s an odd sideways-T shape, so it will be interesting. I’m currently playing with the idea of creating a separate bed-nook with paint and a curtained-off area (it will look a bit bordello, but hey, that’s me!). So, when you walk in, it’s the crossbar of the T, with windows dead ahead and to the right, with the closet entrance to the right and slightly behind. I am thinking this area to be a more neutral color already used in the house (the honey-gold or green, probably. The perpendicular section would house my bed in a rather narrow area, which I am inclined to paint burgundy, with the same brocade-glossy paint technique used above. I’d put in wall sconces for light, and floating shelves for my book, alarm clock, phone, etc. I’d like to get a curtain (possibly in a velvety heather-purple or more burgundy, and possibly with a white gauzy layer, all of which could drape down and shield the bed, but most often be draped gracefully off to one side. There’s also a built-in vanity type thing, that is due to the stairs that go down to the basement (it’s what causes the funky room-shape, too), and I will put my perfumes and stuff here, with a big mirror (just got this spring at Apple Blossom) and this sort of faux-luxe (is that even a term) wall art like this with the fancy-store shopping bags.
Across from the Bedroom is the Bathroom, in which the floor is the same blue slate that is in the kitchen. Again, I will have sage green and chocolate brown accents, and it’s huge so there is room to put in shelving units (probably dark wood), and there are some open shelving units tucked into a corner already. I am thinking to get some lovely baskets and make it pretty and organized like these shown here.
Moving on upstairs, the banisters at the top are a little bit wibbly, so I would like to put in something like these, with the built-in bookshelves. To the right of the stairs will probably just be storage space for now (it’s not big enough for a room, especially with the eaves that angle in). To the left, and around the banisters, it opens up into a much larger Loft Room. There’s a window at the far end that overlooks the backyard. This room also has eaves that angle in, but the center part is easy to stand up in. This will probably be a combo guest room/craft room (or craft supplies, at any rate). I would like to do the bottom part of the walls in sage green (darker shade) and then the eaves and ceiling in the same green, but lighter. My current bed will go up here (I’m totes treating myself to a new bed!), and all of that bedding is currently green. Some other wood furniture, like my cherry-wood cradle that my dad made for me, and the cart which currently houses my scrapbooking stuff, will go up here, and possibly the trunk that is at the foot of my bed right now. So this room will be very “green” for now, and I’m debating about finding ways to make it a little more interesting (browns or burgundy, somehow). This might be done with carpeting, because all of that needs to be replaced (it’s in the two bedrooms on the main floor, the entire loft and the entire basement), and I will probably only replace it in the master bed, upstairs and downstairs (see above re: running bamboo into the Music Room)
So, trekking back down the stairs, into the kitchen and to the stairs to the basement. This will probably be the work that waits the longest, because we need to take out the carpeting, remove some weird, non-structural half-wall thing and let the room just “be” for a while, so I can monitor what kind of water damage is going on. Once that all gets resolved, though, I have some plans for down here. First off, the stairs (or more specifically, the wall to their left) needs to be done. It looks very piecemeal, like when the addition was put on (the breakfast nook/master bedroom is an addition), it was sort of half-assed. There’s technically crawlspace access, but it’s odd and I think it can be redone to look better and more cohesive.
Upon entering the basement, I’d like to put in a bathroom to the immediate right, which will require some intensive replumbing of certain things. It would also necessitate moving the washer/dryer further away, which would be ideal as I want to create a laundry nook, with nice cabinets, space to hang a full-size ironing board (I have my little dinky dorm-sized one right now), etc.
To the right upon entering will be the main storage area, for décor, supplies, etc.
The furthest-back section will eventually be a movie room. The big blank wall will have a white square painted with a black (or dark) edge to it, and I will have a projector for showing movies. I’m envisioning big squishy chairs or beanbags (or both!), maybe tiered somehow. There is a platform area, which used to be the coal chute from the 20’s, and I’m thinking to put in a smallish fridge for drinks, a microwave for popcorn or other snackies, etc. It will be so awesome and cozy, and my milkshake movie room will bring all the boys to the yard house!
Because this is all further down the line, and dependant on water damage/repairs, I’m less set on how this will all be done up, other than purpose-of-room. The furnace will get replaced next month (crosses fingers), the other stuff will get hauled out, and then it’s a waiting game. When I’m finally ready to revamp it and bring it up to snuff, that will involve finishing the ceiling with something that is not stapled fabric, enclosing the water heater/furnace properly, painting, carpeting, and tiling the laundry area (or something). Right now, once we haul out the nasties, we’re just going to seal it with special paint that my mom recommends (I forget what it’s called…). But it’ll just look white.
Back up the stairs we go, and hang a right through the breakfast nook and to the back yard. There is a LOT of potential, but it’s all getting run over at the moment. The lawn desperately needs overhauling. The old garage foundation will be modified with paving stones or acid-etched cement or something, to be a nice patio with an awning, patio furniture, a BBQ and a funky fire pit. I’d like to redo the steps that lead to the backyard for a more finished patio and portico, with stepping stones curving over to the BBQ area. I want herbs, veggies, fruit and a chicken coop, as well as lovely plants like roses, lavender, pansies, and lilies. Maybe a clothesline for drying my clothes in the fresh air in the summer (saves on dryer!).
This concludes the virtual tour of my yet-to-close house! Thanks for joining, and please do come again and often!
However, since that's not going to happen while I'm at work, I shall update you on my current status.
The house is officially in escrow, and I'm looking at a closing date of August 12th. OH SHI- THIS IS HAPPENING. Cue happpy dance! Please, come along for a little breakdown how I envision my forthcoming domicile.
My color scheme is earthy, jewel tones. I’ll talk you on a hypothetical walk through my hypothetical house :) And this is all going to be over a long period of time - years, I suspect. So with some help from my Pintrest boards, please join me!
The outside of the house is currently a slate-blue, with [dirty] white trim. I want to get it resanded and painted to a deep foresty green, with crisp white trim. Since I have plans to put lots of pretty flowering things in pinks, fuchias, and periwinkle, I think the green will set them off nicely.
The Living Room, which is what you first walk into, will have deep honey-gold walls, with a lighter shade for the ceiling, and white trim (white trim will be a unifying feature of my place, so pretty much consider that for all rooms from here on out). I want to use this amazing technique, to give it a lovely brocaded look. My couch is sage green, and I have pillows in sage, purple, chocolate brown, and multi-colored with green, gold, burgundy, violet and brown. I’ll have solid wood pieces, like the coffee table and two end tables (one square, one round), my desk, the forthcoming grandmother clock, the telephone chair, as well as the TV and TV stand. Also getting my dad’s vintage recliner from the 60’s, and I’m going to reupholster in burgundy.
The front room, or shall henceforth be known as the Music Room, is to the right of the Living Room. Eventually, part of the wall/doorway will be taken out and replaced with French doors, and the bamboo floor from the front room (and kitchen) will be continued into this room for continuity and to make the whole front space feel more open and cohesive. So it will have the same honey-gold walls, and will house my piano, probably the hall tree and/or the fainting couch.
Continuing from the Living Room into the Kitchen, which has beautiful blue slate backsplash all the way up to the hickory cabinets, and stainless steel appliances. The walls in here will be done in sage green with chocolate brown accents, to keep the earthy tones with a calm, soothing feel, and will tie in the blue slate with my sage green dishes. My little table and bentwood chairs will be in the breakfast “nook” (it’s really too big to be a nook, but not large enough to be a dining room), probably anchored with a rug, hopefully with all 3 blue/green/brown tones.
Heading to the right of the kitchen is a small Hallway, with the stairs going up to the loft, which I tell you I am strongly inclined to paint these awesome book stairs. For a bibliovore like myself, how perfect is that??? Although they are reasonable nice wood steps, so… maybe I’ll paint something that can be attached to the steps instead? Anybooty, to the left (across from the stairs) is a niche that I think would work really well for my two large bookshelves. Or possibly my white cabinet, which I could FINALLY sand down and repaint, and maybe in one of those aforementioned kitchen colors, like a chocolate brown with sage green on the inside, or some such thing. That cabinet, which currently houses a lot of tchotchkes and stuff, hair supplies and sweaters, will be repurposes to display my lovely glass antiques, my cheap-thrills (I’m cheap, but they thrill me) multi-colored martini and champagne glasses, with cookbooks and glass vases in the lower section.
To the left out of the hallway (it barely qualifies as a hallway, but I’m calling it that), is the Master Bedroom. It’s an odd sideways-T shape, so it will be interesting. I’m currently playing with the idea of creating a separate bed-nook with paint and a curtained-off area (it will look a bit bordello, but hey, that’s me!). So, when you walk in, it’s the crossbar of the T, with windows dead ahead and to the right, with the closet entrance to the right and slightly behind. I am thinking this area to be a more neutral color already used in the house (the honey-gold or green, probably. The perpendicular section would house my bed in a rather narrow area, which I am inclined to paint burgundy, with the same brocade-glossy paint technique used above. I’d put in wall sconces for light, and floating shelves for my book, alarm clock, phone, etc. I’d like to get a curtain (possibly in a velvety heather-purple or more burgundy, and possibly with a white gauzy layer, all of which could drape down and shield the bed, but most often be draped gracefully off to one side. There’s also a built-in vanity type thing, that is due to the stairs that go down to the basement (it’s what causes the funky room-shape, too), and I will put my perfumes and stuff here, with a big mirror (just got this spring at Apple Blossom) and this sort of faux-luxe (is that even a term) wall art like this with the fancy-store shopping bags.
Across from the Bedroom is the Bathroom, in which the floor is the same blue slate that is in the kitchen. Again, I will have sage green and chocolate brown accents, and it’s huge so there is room to put in shelving units (probably dark wood), and there are some open shelving units tucked into a corner already. I am thinking to get some lovely baskets and make it pretty and organized like these shown here.
Moving on upstairs, the banisters at the top are a little bit wibbly, so I would like to put in something like these, with the built-in bookshelves. To the right of the stairs will probably just be storage space for now (it’s not big enough for a room, especially with the eaves that angle in). To the left, and around the banisters, it opens up into a much larger Loft Room. There’s a window at the far end that overlooks the backyard. This room also has eaves that angle in, but the center part is easy to stand up in. This will probably be a combo guest room/craft room (or craft supplies, at any rate). I would like to do the bottom part of the walls in sage green (darker shade) and then the eaves and ceiling in the same green, but lighter. My current bed will go up here (I’m totes treating myself to a new bed!), and all of that bedding is currently green. Some other wood furniture, like my cherry-wood cradle that my dad made for me, and the cart which currently houses my scrapbooking stuff, will go up here, and possibly the trunk that is at the foot of my bed right now. So this room will be very “green” for now, and I’m debating about finding ways to make it a little more interesting (browns or burgundy, somehow). This might be done with carpeting, because all of that needs to be replaced (it’s in the two bedrooms on the main floor, the entire loft and the entire basement), and I will probably only replace it in the master bed, upstairs and downstairs (see above re: running bamboo into the Music Room)
So, trekking back down the stairs, into the kitchen and to the stairs to the basement. This will probably be the work that waits the longest, because we need to take out the carpeting, remove some weird, non-structural half-wall thing and let the room just “be” for a while, so I can monitor what kind of water damage is going on. Once that all gets resolved, though, I have some plans for down here. First off, the stairs (or more specifically, the wall to their left) needs to be done. It looks very piecemeal, like when the addition was put on (the breakfast nook/master bedroom is an addition), it was sort of half-assed. There’s technically crawlspace access, but it’s odd and I think it can be redone to look better and more cohesive.
Upon entering the basement, I’d like to put in a bathroom to the immediate right, which will require some intensive replumbing of certain things. It would also necessitate moving the washer/dryer further away, which would be ideal as I want to create a laundry nook, with nice cabinets, space to hang a full-size ironing board (I have my little dinky dorm-sized one right now), etc.
To the right upon entering will be the main storage area, for décor, supplies, etc.
The furthest-back section will eventually be a movie room. The big blank wall will have a white square painted with a black (or dark) edge to it, and I will have a projector for showing movies. I’m envisioning big squishy chairs or beanbags (or both!), maybe tiered somehow. There is a platform area, which used to be the coal chute from the 20’s, and I’m thinking to put in a smallish fridge for drinks, a microwave for popcorn or other snackies, etc. It will be so awesome and cozy, and my milkshake movie room will bring all the boys to the yard house!
Because this is all further down the line, and dependant on water damage/repairs, I’m less set on how this will all be done up, other than purpose-of-room. The furnace will get replaced next month (crosses fingers), the other stuff will get hauled out, and then it’s a waiting game. When I’m finally ready to revamp it and bring it up to snuff, that will involve finishing the ceiling with something that is not stapled fabric, enclosing the water heater/furnace properly, painting, carpeting, and tiling the laundry area (or something). Right now, once we haul out the nasties, we’re just going to seal it with special paint that my mom recommends (I forget what it’s called…). But it’ll just look white.
Back up the stairs we go, and hang a right through the breakfast nook and to the back yard. There is a LOT of potential, but it’s all getting run over at the moment. The lawn desperately needs overhauling. The old garage foundation will be modified with paving stones or acid-etched cement or something, to be a nice patio with an awning, patio furniture, a BBQ and a funky fire pit. I’d like to redo the steps that lead to the backyard for a more finished patio and portico, with stepping stones curving over to the BBQ area. I want herbs, veggies, fruit and a chicken coop, as well as lovely plants like roses, lavender, pansies, and lilies. Maybe a clothesline for drying my clothes in the fresh air in the summer (saves on dryer!).
This concludes the virtual tour of my yet-to-close house! Thanks for joining, and please do come again and often!