last year...

we purchased our first home. we'd been living in a smaller bungalow type house of my great-grandmother's for about 3 years and before that, a few small apartments. so, as you can imagine, we have been thrilled to be home owners. this house is large and is a huge blessing to us. however, i am beginning to wallow in it's size and how many rooms there are to decorate.

for some awful reason the previous owner, a realtor (flipper), thought it necessary to paint ALL of the trim and walls a terrible 'smoker's yellow'. (as we so lovely refer to it as)

at the end of last summer we decided to start painting. i didn't put much thought behind colors, i was just so excited to have something of our own. so... we began painting.

and the living room became blue....

but first was a horrid teal color because i'm terrible at figuring out colors. so, we re-painted the walls with this baby blue that i still hate but decided i hated it after we'd finished the whole room. so... we went with it. these are very big walls and it took a lot of effort thanks to my sister and brother-in-law. the living room remains the same... a color that i hate....

however, i do like our decor...

just not the color of the walls. it's very limiting. i want to be able to incorporate more colors. my style is more eclectic i am learning. i can do matchy-matchy (as seen) but i don't like it. my husband understands my dilemma but really likes the way our living room is. however, i've convinced him to let me re-paint eventually and try to find my style. i've been showing him photos and explaining what i'd like to see done.

i was so pleased to see this post yesterday over at young house love. i showed it to him to further explain myself. i think he agreed...

i want to re-paint the walls a shade or two lighter then the couches. i want to change out some of the pillows to incorporate more colors. i want to possibly re-do the footstool (we made it using this tutorial, but now i am beginning to see how we could have made it better) i want to change out the curtains that i made for bamboo shades. and i want to put more art on the other walls. i'd like to find a round mirror to put above the radiator and we have some floating shelves that still need to be hung that will go above the right side of the couch.

the whole house is calling out to me but i cannot seem to get past my decorating block until i fix what i already did. and that applies to the 6 out of 10 rooms we did paint, starting with our living room... sorry jess! i am my mother's daughter... i just cannot continue with this ugliness staring at me. my fear is to move on to the rooms we haven't touched yet and continue this madness so i must first fix what i did wrong to learn what not to do... right?

so i wonder how he'll feel when he sees this...

love you, babe....

i know what we're doing this weekend!

i'll be sure and keep you all updated.