Home Matters

Rowdy and I have lived in our little house for almost three years now. We've had ideas about how we wanted to improve things, but neither of us are particularly design-oriented. We know what we like and what looks good, but we couldn't put it into practice.

We had our living room and stairs carpet removed and lovely maple floors put down last spring.



Then we hired an interior designer. We found Christine online, believe it or not, and we've been very happy with her. She's helping us unify things--colors, furniture, etc. Right now, we just have hodgepodge. And our walls, as you can see from the floor picture, are white, white, white.

We chose some colors yesterday. The living room is mainly going to be "barely beige" (the lighter color on the left), but around the fireplace will be a faux finish (the sample square in the second photo). The painter is also going to paint the "tile" around the opening of the fireplace to look like the travertine in our kitchen/family room.






We're having shelves put into the alcoves in the family room (where the ill-placed bookcase and entertainment center are), and painting the wall behind them and over the fireplace chocolate brown. The most of the rest of the upstairs is going to be a color called "Ladyfinger", that's a little darker than "Barely Beige".


Finally, our barely-visible hutch area is going to be painted "Tucson Red", to show off the white cabinets.

Johnny the Carpenter will do the built-ins sometime in the next couple of weeks, and Andy the Painter will be able to paint the last two weeks of January. We'll finish it off for now with new window coverings.