Garden clean up

So, during my pregnancy, well for the major majority of it, it was crazy hot outside, so my outside garden fell at the waste sides and eventually become overgrown and an eyesore. After a month of giving it the stink-eye every time I would walk out of my house, or pull into my driveway, I finally got on it and cleaned things up. Lucky for me, the major issues were just overgrown grass, which is usually pretty easy to rip out. Also, the ground was still a little damp from the night before's thunderstorm, so that also made for easy weed pulling.

I didn't think to take pictures of the before yucky garden till I was half way done with the front of it. What can I say? I was finally pumped to get it done and over with.





And when everything was done.





Love my elephants! Yup, they are even in the garden.



This week we got sidewalks put in our block. Every other block in my community had them expect us! So glad we finally have them.



Annnd here is a wide view of my house. Isn't that screened in porch awful? It's getting ripped down in the Spring and let me tell you, I've been waiting for that day to come for years! We'll finally have the money to get that project taken care of, I'm secretly counting down the days till it's gonzo.



So my plans for next Spring is to attach a Pergola to the front of the house, after taking down the porch. I also would like to repaint the house a light gray and paint my front door a fun color. I'm thinking either green (obv!), teal or coral. I have a while to think about it and lots of paint colors to look at until it's time so I'm sure I'll pick something fun. I also think it will be easier to change the front door color every couple of years or whatever than having to paint the house because I get sick of whatever color it happens to be at the time (aka: I'm sick of my house color right now).



I also changed things around in my living room. I'll share all of those shots in my next update. Happy Hump Day!

Always changing my mind.

The title of this post describes me perfectly. The minute I think I'm set in my ways on something, I see something else and my mind instantly thinks, 'wow, I like that more!' I know, I have a problem... a interior design decorating problem. I just can't stop!

More recently, like the past few months I've had my mind & heart set on painting all of the cabinets in my kitchen... top & bottom. I wanted the top to be a light cream coffee color and the bottoms in a nice dark brown, with dark brown woodblock counter tops. Doesn't that sound lovely? It was all sounding so great in my head until I started to realize that there's nothing I can do about the fact that my living room/kitchen are a big open area and the dark colors I wanted in the kitchen, just wouldn't mesh well with the light grey & blue/yellow theme I'm doing in the living room. So, back to the drawing board I went...

My main issue was, what color will I paint the walls?! All that dark warm browns, just didn't help me visualize a happy wall color to bring the two rooms together. So, off to pinterest & google I went to get ideas & inspiration. This is what I've come up with...

I've decided to keep the top of my cabinets in my kitchen, white, like they already are & paint the bottom in a rich dark blue. The wall color will match the grey in the living room. It was all starting to make sense! Now I can incorporate greens & yellows & blues in my kitchen without it looking like waay too much. Here are some images that got my mind busy...


This is the basic idea. White on top, color on the bottom. Obviously not this color.


Dark wood block counter tops. This idea ain't changin'! I love it so much!


This image has been embedded in my head for a couple months. I love it & it ultimately helped me make my mind up on using blue.


Only a couple more months & my kitchen dreams will be a reality!