Wednesday, September 4, 2013

House closing!!

Well, it's official.  We have accomplished all of the wickets of adulthood in the eyes of the American public, as Rob would say.  We have careers, got married, had a baby, own cars, and now we are officially home owners!  I'm not sure if I'm excited or terrified by that but nevertheless we now own our very first place.  We purchased a 3/2 condo on the far east end of Louisville.  It's spacious, beautiful and move in ready.  We have actually been living in it for the last month and a half but now it's officially ours.  The people who owned it before us are close to the same age as us and it appears that they had similar taste and so we really have very little we need to do in order to make it work with what we have.  Of course there are projects we would like to do as money allows to make it exactly what we want but really what it needs right now is some simple paint in a couple rooms and that's about it.  We are going to start with painting the master bedroom and both bathrooms.  The master suite is a light green color at the moment.  There isn't anything particularly wrong with that but it does limit how I can decorate our bedroom and I would like some more flexibility to change up the bedding and do some interesting things without needed to repaint in the future.  It's a rather large undertaking as the room is huge and has vaulted ceilings throughout, but I think it will serve us much better in a light gray color.  Still soothing but a little more neutral and flexible.

This is the current layout and color of our bedroom and bathroom:

I am thinking one of these two colors would be a nice alternative.  Haven't decided if the bathroom should be the same color as well or if I should go a different route with that.  Our bathroom doesn't have much of a design at the moment.  What do you think?  Bathroom the same or different?  Which gray seems more "master bedroom" to you?



 The other room that needs to be painted desperately is Alythia's bathroom:

It's a very bright blue color that is rather hard to work with and doesn't really go with my beach/kiddie idea that I have for her space.  It's somewhat difficult with this bathroom as I want it to be mostly kid-like but it is also our guest bath so it needs to be still put together.  I have some adorable pink frames with sea life sketches that match the ones over her crib that I intend to put in there but they definitely do not work with this wall color.  Can't decide what it should be though...  Any thoughts?  Her room is so intentionally designed and laid out that I would hate for the bathroom to not be up to par as well.

It is somewhat daunting and exhilarating to actually be able to think about these things and to know that I don't have to ever repaint it if I don't want to!  I can actually think about how things will grow with her as she ages and know that at least for the next few years, this is where we intend to be.  I'm so excited that I can actually start to do some interior designing!

What are your thoughts on my dilemmas?  


Becky