1 year house anniversary!

It's hard to believe but we have now owned our house for an entire year! It's amazing how it can feel like we have lived here our entire lives and also feel like we just moved in yesterday all at the same time. We've done a lot but there are still many projects we want to do once we get the time/money. We were planning on using our tax refund to put in carpet this year but...that didn't happen so maybe next year. The carpets are still in decent shape so we'll live.

So let's take a little walk through time and see what we have changed, and where we want to go :)

The biggest change, in my opinion, is the dining room. Note the lovely green hues on the wall which took Scott back to his military days, the stained carpet, and the..well, generally attitude. I have a feeling an animal once lived in this room as well, because Katie frequently had accidents in here when she is very well house trained.

And our new and improved room. Thanks to a generous gift from my parents we were able to put in new flooring (laminate, super easy to put in and so far wonderful) and they also helped me paint the walls white and green. We actually eat in this room now, who would have guessed?

The front hallway was the 2nd biggest impact, although I may change my mind later and argue that it is, in fact, the biggest. Who doesn't love 30' (estimating here, could be totally off) salmon pink walls? Um..most people I would imagine. Also the lovely green...ish wall on front, which then goes down to the military green that you saw in the dining room lower on the wall (not pictured). These three colors are totally logical...

This is actually the same white paint as we used in the dining room! It's slightly, very very slightly, tinted with green so it actually reflects light differently in each room and has a slightly different appearance which is pretty awesome. We're going to hang small cafe curtains (red or black) on the windows for a little privacy at night as well as to give the room some color. One day I would also love to stain/paint the door frame a darker color as well as the wood that surrounds the small window. I also want to get a small stained glass decal to put in the small window. I think that would look fantastic and make the hallway really colorful.

Here is the living room. It just...was. Rather blah and not horribly exciting but eh, not too shabby. We did find it interesting how 2 of the walls were a different color though. We thought they were a very light lavender/beige type color. Um...not so much. Once we started covering them with the white they showed just how purple they really were! We used the paint with primer but still had to do two coats. Then again, two coats to cover purple with white is not something to scoff at. We also painted the trim green to give the room a little pop and added chocolate brown curtains.

Green trim, oh so pretty

(Purple/brown/beigey color)