EvY at HomE

I'm gonna do so much stuff. I'm gonna paint the office, build this fauxdenza thing, buy new outdoor seating for the patio, weed, plant some grass, re-do the closet, it's gonna be amazing. HA! Yeah right. My family's in town for the weekend and so we're gonna spend our time hanging out and being happy about the fact that Jesus rose from the grave. Maybe next weekend I'll have time to do this? I think this is the way to go in the office for sure. Build a long narrow cabinet for the tv/technical stuff and as additional storage and it would fit a big tv there. Well I truly hope you're all lucky enough to be surrounded by family this weekend.

We went from 4bedroom 3bath 2car garage to 3bed 2bath no garge. And yet everything fits somehow. Hmm. How did that happen? Seriously. How? The fourth bedroom before didn't have much in it besides an armchair and a table with records on it and we donated everything but the records. But the closet was full to the brim with a drum kit and a bunch of other stuff.  The guest room pretty much just had a bed and a desk and we donated the desk and the nightstand but that closet was pretty empty so they sort of balance each other out. The living room had giant bookcases and now we have new bookshelves in our bedroom. We found a home for the white dining table that was in there. Everything from the office made it. And the kitchen? I mean, dang, how did all of that crap fit in the smaller house? That kitchen was a monster! We got rid of a lot of stuff but it still doesn't make sense to me that we fit in here with one less room and one less garage. Was it bec...

Matt and I had our first drive to set today from our new house: 20 minutes. Do you have any idea how dang awesome that is? - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

The one hallway in our home is pretty boring and small. Here's from the kitchen, door on the right is the guest bath, door directly in front is the guest room. Here's the linen closet to the left of guest room. One of a handful of things I've hung up, our wedding photo by our friend Andy  and a cloud mobile. The blank wall across from the wedding photo looking into the kitchen. The linen closet to the right, my office straight ahead, the living room to the left. The only source of lighting in here is this sconce thing. I was thinking, hey this hallway needs something funky. Oooh... how about if I paint it teal, the same color as the back of the built ins in the dining room? Then I found this image: Ooh how about a cool overhead light and some dope wood planks on the ceiling too? Or wallpaper? What do we think? Teal hallway and light rooms all around it?

Three giant Parsons towers fit most of the Fredrich library. We're adding decorating things amidst the books to give it some fun. I enjoy having Bender by Sun Tzu's Art of War. Books are the best.

I think I've been living a land of denial. About how the layout for my current office is totally different from the layout of the last one. The furniture plan in my mind has been working off of the layout of a small square room and this room is actually a large long rectangle. The main part of my denial is my determination to hang onto or make this large cabinet work. It's not gonna work EvY, stop trying to make fetch happen, it's not gonna happen.  What this little world needs is, pardon my french, a big ass sideboard or floating  fauxdenza . Huge. Something that can take up the majority of the wall and where inside of it I can hide all these uglies and maybe even custom make a litter box for the critters to use that's hidden behind doors.  The elimination of this cabinet would lead to two things. 1) I'd be out of a file cabinet but that could easily be solved with the purchase of this beauty  (maybe even two of them) I've been plotting in my evil ...

From White: To Teal: As I mentioned before the camera just doesn't capture the color right, it's a lot more green. This looks blue but I promise it's teal, very blue-green. The yellow looks amazing with it. Oh it's Benjamin Moore Dark Teal . See that link shows the green better. What do you guys think? If all goes well I hope to paint the office this coming weekend. There was a coupon for paint at Orchard and I went ahead and bought the paint for the office, guest room, and living room to have and get that coupon action and then I'll paint at my leisure.

Matt, my dad, and Eric almost finished the shed this weekend. All that's left is the door, window, roofing and to paint it. But yay, I'm amazed by how much progress they made. I also started painting the built in. Finally got to paint something. The photo is not telling of the real color. It's very teal. Green blue. Perfect. I'll post it complete tomorrow. - mobile blog post. spelling irrelevant.

Our living room is a teeny thing so in addition to dreaming about blowing out the room and making it larger I'm turning my attention on the backyard because well first of all, we're hosting a bridal shower in April in it and secondly because ideally, since we live in California and enjoy beautiful weather year round, maybe we could do a lot more living outside if we make the backyard a lot more appealing to hang out in. And this image and pretty much the whole article from Sunset Magazine has encapsulated the whole vibe I'd like to go with. I mean come on with the two dogs and everything. It was from Sunset Magazine and the whole backyard was pretty spectacular but I was just really taken by the image with the firepit because it looks like such a fun place to be and I have such fond memories of sitting around Ali's Aunt Linda's house where they had a firepit and we'd hang and chit chat. And yes, I'm aware that we had a fire pit in the condo but we never...