New Beginings

My husband and I recently purchased our current house.  Over the past few months, we have been busy with many tasks.  In that time we have managed to have the main living area painted (by a professional, I do not have the skills or the tools to paint a wall that high), purchase a kitchen table, hang a few pictures, and paint a hallway. 

We painted the main area with Behr's Sandstone Cove.  Once the walls were painted we could start hanging some pictures on the walls.  My husband has a hobby of photography which makes for some great images to hang.

I find myself struggling with a desire to just pick things and fill up spaces (as many who know me will tell you, I am an inpatient, sometimes impulsive person – I like to have a task and “get her done” as they say).  I do not want to fill my home with stuff, I want to decorate, pick a theme, display items that are meaningful to me.  I have a few ideas and a laundry list in my head of tasks I want to accomplish but along with a  new home comes a new mortgage and I have to remind myself that I need to space out projects and do what we can afford (Did you know a gallon of Behr Ultra Paint is 30 dollars?!  Not that I think it is too much but if you have to buy multiple gallons it starts to add up).

I want this blog to be a way to share projects I am working on and things going on in my life.  There is no set theme, just discussing tasks around the house and activities that make our house a home.  Here are some more pictures just to show you around a little bit of the house.

That red splotch on the wall is a paint sample.  We're having the dining room painted soon to be ready for Thanksgiving. 

The bedroom walls will be getting a fresh coat of paint soon too.