May 16, 2013

Passion

 

One of my many passions is our home.  I want to take our home a place that feels comfortable, homey & of course I want it to look beautiful.  Not just for myself, but for my family and guests who come over.  I want them to think well of our home, obviously.  I want our home to have that wow factor.  With this passion though, I find myself wanting to change things constantly.  I'll put something up on the wall, or put something on a dresser or the counter and if it's not exactly how I envisioned it, I won't like it & it will legitimately bother me until I change it.  This drives Creag crazy!  With trends that come and go, spicing things up, it inspires me.  If I like something, I want it.  Who could blame me and I think everyone is that way.  The white furniture, with the grey walls, the colorful patterns, all of that is gorgeous!  I follow blogs and see photos of all of these crafty women who transform the ugliest mirror or the most hideous piece of furniture into a masterpiece with just a little paint.  I get very envious and wish that I could pull that kind of stuff off.  And if I tried, maybe I could.  Then there's Pinterest.  That's a whole different story.  I get on there and I lust over the Pins that I see on there.  I pin a bunch of things to my boards & I think to myself, I'm going to do that and then I never do.  Well.....I'm gonna start! 

 

Yesterday, just for fun, Creag & I walked through a house that was for sale in our neighborhood.  It was basically our dream house!  Something that we couldn't afford unless we cut out a bunch of other things that we don't want to, but would be nice to have with our large family.  It had 4 Bedrooms, 4 Full Baths, a finished basement, 3 Car Garage and the list goes on and on.  It was a custom built home, so the details in the house were incredible.  I looked around and just loved everything about it.  The wheels were turning in my mind the whole time.  How do we make our house look like this??  After dinner that evening, I found myself looking around our house, inspired to change a few things so I decided to just tackle one room.  Our Master Bath.  I changed just a few things, and really like the feel the room got from just a few minor details.

 

 

 

 

We recently made some updates in that room.  We tiled the wall that the tub sits on and painted the room, but the minor details of the room just hadn't come together yet.  We have a double sink, and I can never find anything to set on it that I like.  I'll put something there, and in a few days think it looks bad.  I had a candle tray & some potpourri that was given to us the other day and candles that were sitting on the side of the tub so I put it all together on the tray and really like the way that it looks.  The green & white with the brown matches the counter top & the wall color perfectly I think.  The three pictures on the wall have been sitting in our bedroom for months ready to be hung, so I finally took the time to get them on the wall.  They look great.  The top & bottom picture we've had since our wedding in New Orleans.  The top one is the front of the Court of Two Sisters where we had dinner after our ceremony.  The middle one is a wedding picture that was just sitting on the vanity & the bottom is of the Super Dome where we watched the CATS win the Championship the day after our wedding.  They're sentimental to us & I love the way they look.  The brown cabinet was something that we had in the loft holding DVD's that the kids never watch & probably didn't even know where there.  I emptied it out and put it in the bathroom & I think it adds a nice little touch to a space that was once empty.  It now holds some of my miscellaneous stuff that was cramming up my dresser.  I had the orange vase sitting on top of it already, but it was just sitting on the floor.  The mason jar is holding the rest of the potpourri leftover from what I used on the bathroom sink.  I like it, and hope my feelings on it last and I did it all by shopping my own home which is even better!!  Eventually, I'd like to trim out the big contractor mirror above the sinks & get a new light fixture.  It'll get there, it just takes time, love and a lot of passion.