Let's talk paint

Mary is hosting a wonderful Design Time carnival over at her blog. (click here to read about the inspiration behind this great idea. Then click here to check out how other bloggers like to decorate)




Ok, to be honest. All these pictures are of my old house. We currently live in an ugly rental. The walls are white. It's dull. It bugs me. So I'm going to show you some pictures of my house in TX. Right now I can only manage to dig up pictures of Joseph's old room and the bathroom. The living room was my favorite paint color, I'll work on trying to find that. But for now....

This is (was) Joseph's room. You might want to put on your sunglasses.

Bright enough? His room only had 1 window. This room was painted a dark green when we moved in and it was way too dark. Having only lived with white walls in the past we were ready for some color. This room took care of that need. :) His crib bedding was whirligig so I painted cute little bugs all around the room as a fun little border. The sad looking valance above his crib was supposed to get a mock window frame with a pretty painted outdoor scene behind it. Never happened. But that was the vision. :) We had an old ent. center that we painted to match the room. It worked to hold toys, though it wasn't the best in decorating style. But hey, he was 1. This room was a lot of fun. It was hard to walk into his room and NOT smile.


It is now safe to remove your sunglasses.



This was my bathroom. I really like this color. We added the 3 white shelves. The bathroom was rather small and we needed a spot for the every day kinda stuff. So I bought some cute glass jars to hold q-tips n' such and they became displays. I'm classy like that.


Ok, thats all I can find. What I can tell you though...
my (old) living room was a beautiful shade of red. I don't like my couch. This color made me like my couch. Oh, what a little paint can do. I know you're dying to see what color can do such a thing. Sorry. No pictures. Found old pictures that had some cute 14 month old baby buns, but no living room paint. Where were my priorities?! :)

My current house...
We have no cabinets in our bathroom. So over the bathroom door we have a shoe organizer. It houses our shampoo and bath type items. Not pretty, but practical for a small space.

I was SOOOO wanting something like this from pottery barn. We don't have even a little bit of space for it. So instead I went to Target and found a 2x3 cubby and bought pretty little baskets to go inside. They now house our shoes and hats n' heading out the door "stuff".

Ok, I'm out of ideas now. Be sure to head over to Mary's for some more decorating tips and ideas.