Haven't forgotten this blog!

I haven't forgotten this blog but I've certainly been on an extended hiatus. Real life has thrown me a curve ball or two and once I knock those outta the park I'll be back to planning and posting.

Keep checking back!

Table Lamps for Living Room~

I was looking around for table lamps for the living room and stumbled across these at www.lampsplus.com I love them.

How does the shade look with the lamp? Opinions please!

*I tried to line the lamp and the shade up a little better but no luck...use your imagination :)

A couple of other design decisions made:

Over the front door I currently have a wooden oval with the word Welcome in gold on it. I'm thinking I'll replace that with something like this, which I like quite a lot:


I also want to replace the current wall sconces we have in the living room. They are nothing fancy but I'm thinking more of using wrought iron accents and I think any one of the below would be good. They are in order to my current preference:



I also want to replace the wooden wall clock with the heart shaped face. I found the following and thought they might tie in nicely with the wrought iron for the scones. Once again they appear in order of my preference.


What do you think?

Switching 'em up~

A few weeks ago I bought some pillows for our new sectional. I bought 2 of each...sand/beige color, green and pumpkin colors. I hated the sand/beige color immediately. Fell completely in love with the pumpkin and found I could tolerate the green though I wasn't all that jazzed about them. Here they are: (you can see the sand/beige ones in the left bottom corner)
I finally got around to taking the ones I wasn't keeping back to Pier One on Sunday.I hadn't really planned to get any others...until I walked in the door and spied these immediately:
The greens ones will be going back soon :)

With the purchase of these new pillows I think I have come a great deal closer in deciding on a paint color for the the living room.Top row, second color from L to R is Devine's Damask and the very bottom color is Ellen Kennon's Mushroom.

I'm thinking that I'd like to paint the wall with the quilt rack (which will be taken down and not rehung) in the Damaskas well as the short wall seen here with the television in front of it. The television also won't remain where it is currently.
all the other walls will be painted the Mushroom. There is no ceiling in the living room, but there is a ceiling going down the hall toward the master bedroom...that will be painted Mushroom as well.

So what do you think??? (If I go with the Damask...the beloved pumpkin pillows will have to go back to Pier One with the green ones! boo)

Hanging Around~

I've been looking through various sites I saved and came across this one again: www.jp33.com
This site showcases the art work of Jeremy Prasatik. You can purchase prints for $20.00 in 13x19 size. I love these 3 and I'm trying to figure out which one to buy. This one is called Majestic and it is my favorite. I love it. I love all the pastel shades in the background.

This one is called A Modern Twist and I really like teh circles behind the tree.
I really like this one as well and I'd absolutely adore it if it didn't have the rainbowy colors above the trees. I love the silhouettes of the evergreens and the orange shadows. The rainbows...not so much. Though they do make it interesting.

Decisions...decisions...

Adding one of these~

This is a Honeywell whole house humidifier. The hubby and I have been sick the last few days and as is typical this time of year we are suffering from lack of moisture in the air.

I sent the hubby out to get some over the counter meds and he came back with those and the humidifier!

Today he is feeling better so he is installing the humidifier. The video that came with it says installation should take about an hour. HA!

Almost 5 hours later and one more trip to Home Despot and he's almost there. Apparently this box had been open and was missing several very key parts. I'm worried that it won't work properly when the hubby gets it all hooked up...but I'm trying to not speak that thought out loud just yet. I think if he had not already installed the main piece to our furnace ductwork he would've taken the whole mess back but opted for just picking up the missing parts to carry on with the job.

I hope this works cause I really don't wanna have to say "I told ya to call the heating and cooling guy". The hubby is quite handy so it'll probably turn out fine. I rarely ever get to say I told ya so.

Here's hoping my poor, dry, burning, aching nasal passages feel soft and supple soon~

**2/13/07 update: My fears were realized...this humidifier did not work. The transformer was junk. In hubby's defense I'll have to blame the fact that he was sick himself and trying to do something to make us both feel better. Otherwise I know he never would've purchased a box that had obviously been opened. I'm assuming that this humidifier had been returned and instead of finding its way back to Honeywell it ended up back on the shelf. Damn the bad luck...ours. Hubby took the unit off our furnace and boxed it back up last night. However, we're getting a major snow/ice storm so I doubt it will be returned today...probably not even tomorrow. *sigh* The good news is that we're both getting better. I guess we'll have a whole house humidifier for the next time~

New Living Room Furniture Arrived!!

Well, here it is. Ain't it purdy?? I love it, but it sure did swallow up the room!
My beloved rocker/recliner won't fit in the room anymore! Dammit! At least until we knock that stinkin' wall out and give the room an additional 3+ feet to the right of the rocker. Doing that will change the configuration of the room and allow the rocker to come back. At least that is the plan.

When John gets home from work we're going to play around with the furniture and see how things will be when the wall goes down and new carpet is laid that reflects the additional living room space.

Oh and I'm going to whine about the fact that my old end tables DO NOT match the new coffee table (I tried to tell him that when we were buying the stuff but noooooooooooooooo he could not listen then he was sure they were the same...why can he NOT remember that HE is color blind???) Hopefully it's not too late to order the matching end tables...they were being discontinued. If it's too late...I'm going to be pissed.

I'll try to take photos of the furniture rearranging when we do it. It may not happen until the weekend. Depends on how we both feel at the end of the day if we're up to tugging furniture in circles :)

Think I'll go down now and lounge on the pretty new sofa :)

**Why is that we never seem to notice the clutter that is sitting around until we look at photos?

More paint sampling~

I finally got around to putting up most of the samples that came in the last week or so. Here they are:
From the top L to R: Devine Paints Fog and Skyline. Right below Fog is Devine's Agave. You can see a bit of Ellen Kennon's Gustavian Gray below that.
This is the purple section. The very top color is Devine Paints Shantung. This color is definitely out. It's way too dark for my taste. Below that is BM Wet Concrete and Silver Fox. Third row is Citrons Vintage Velvet and Monsoon. The Monsoon is off the list as being too blue. Final sample is Ellen Kennon's Lilac Mist, which I like a lot.
These two colors are: Top BM's Monticello Rose, which my daughter vetoed and below that is Ellen Kennon's Caribe. I'm kind of liking the Caribe and depending how it looks with the print I ordered that could be the paint choice. Courtney pretty much said for us to paint the room what we want since it's going to become a guest room once she has a place of her own.
These are some blues I tried out. The top color is Ellen Kennon's Slate, love this shade of blue. The middle and bottom colors are from Devine Paints and they are called Tide and Swell. Both are very pretty colors, though I prefer Swell as it is a bit more blue gray.This section is the more neutral/tan colors. Top L to R: Ellen Kennon's Bronze and Bark. John actually likes the Bronze which surprised me and I do have to admit the color has grown on me as it has dried more thoroughly. Second Row L to R: Ellen Kennon's Terracotta Sand and BM's Pecos Spice. The bottom color is Ellen Kennon's Mushroom.

I'll only be referring to the top 4 colors as the bottom 5 were in the above photo. The top 4 are all from Devine Paints. Top from L to R: Haze and Damask. The next row L to R: Brick and Mesa. I love all 4 of these colors and so does John.
This is what the wall looks like right now! ** I just clicked on this photo and looked at it. This photo once enlarged is the best representation of the colors as I see them on the wall. Closer to reality than the individual sample photos.**

I have 5 more samples of Devine paints in various shades of green. I'll try to apply those this afternoon and post photos.

My new living room furniture arrived this a.m. and I'll post photos soon. I love the color of the sectional. That will be a major determining factor is paint choice for the living room/dining/kitchen area. Stay tuned~