The living room...
so i should have closed the armoir doors, but you get the idea. this is the new sofa, i haven't taken a picture of the chair and 1/2 because i am usually always sitting in it, but it is the same as the sofa, just one cushion and not 2. (this picture is already outdated. my roomate bought a flat screen this past weekend. loving the 40 inches!)
to the right of the armoire is the walk way to the kitchen. if i put wood floors in the living room to match the kitchen, i would fear that the living room would be orange also. so i have thought of changing the color to a darker, less orangy color. i have had some floor companies give me a quote. i about fell over dead! $4000 to do approx 400 sq ft! that is $1000/sq ft. thank goodness one of my best friends husband works with a builder and has offered to come and give me a quote and i found a mennonite family that cuts wood floors, and are realitively decent price.
The Kitchen...
these were pics that i took when the previous owners were still in the house, however the basics are still the same. orange cabinets, orange floors, and blue counter tops. i have painted the walls yellow, and have black accents so it looks a little better but still VERY orange.
notice that the floors, and cabinets are all the same color! UGH!
i have toyed with the idea to paint my cabinets. there are 27 of them and that would take a ton of work! i have thought of paying someone to paint the doors and i would do the frame of the cabinets, but the one person i consolted said that oak does not paint up nicely because of the grain in the wood. i don't know how much truth there is in that. my mother suggested that i maybe think about redoing the counter tops. i hadn't thought of this before. i mean, i HATE the blue counter tops. They are the whole reason why i painted the walls yellow, i mean, common, what goes with blue nicely. with the yellow walls came the chicken accessories that my mother got for me. i used them because i didn't know how to tell her i didn't want a county kitchen.
here are some samples that i am heavily contemplating.
i would repaint the kitchen color to green and possibly install a tile backsplash in neutral colors. I would love to change out the appliances to a brushed metal, but unfortunatly they are too expensive.
Here are pics of kitchens that I really enjoy...
(courtesy of HGTV- designer Beth Haley)
(courtesy of Layla)
i would love to hear your thoughts... Thanks for looking!
over valentine's weekend, my neighbors and their little girls moved. i am really going to miss them. they were great neighbors. i got to know them shortly after they found out they were pregnant. her and my sisters due date was only three weeks apart. it was fun to see ally grow, especially since my own neice was 3 hours away. regan always has a playmate whenever she comes to visit. 
i think we watched ally when she was about 1 1/2 years old. I remember walking up to the high school playground and ellie was just a pup and wouldn't walk. we put her in the bottom basket as we walked home. after we got home, i put ally in the bath tub to wash away the sand and my roomie thought that it was weird to bathe a neighbors child. i am going to miss the summer days when i would take the dogs out and ally would come out to play with them. i am going to miss the little knocks at the door to see if amanda was home or if she could come out and play. in october we got to meet ally's little sister emerson. i am going to miss seeing emerson grow the same way that i have seen ally grow. i can't wait for them to move into a new house so we can come over and visit. 
