As I await the closing date to receive the keys to the new home I can only scour the net in wide eyed ideas for how I want those pretty rooms to look when I'm done. We have decided on hardwood flooring through out the house but have yet to pick out the type of wood or color/stain.
My mind is already flooding with ideas for the exterior once we get it cleaned up and several soil samples will be taken and tested to get the yard back into fertile condition.
Einy keeps reminding me that we're going to be starting on the inside, most likely in the basement and then working our way up and through the rooms to fill the dumpster. I already know this but still it's fun to dream ahead. :)
Eventually we'll get a new porch along the front but for now I'm thinking Arts and Crafts style for the front door just slightly wider than the usual door size. I don't need all the side and transom windows around it but I find the door very stately and handsome on its own. Pair it with an old fashioned doorbell and the glitter of a welcoming porch light I think we'll have it made.
Then of course there's the exterior and its siding. The butter yellow color is cute but not for this house in my opinion. For Einy and I we've always been partial to the color blue and then there are the whites. But I don't want this tiny house to be seen as a typical broken egg in rehab nor as a cookie cutter white on rice. I want it to be my gem. So I believe that we'll settle on a DARK sapphire blue for the home with white trim. The picture below is kind of a close example.
The bottom one here is taken from a French magazine called Campange Decoration. While I can't speak a lick of French its got very pretty ideas inside of it. This of course is a bungalow beach house and looks black but in the larger picture of the magazine it's actually a beautiful dark blue.
The highlight of it all is going to be a steel roof. Who doesn't want to hear the rain falling on those comfortable nap weather days, or when springs rolling in and everything just smells clean and sweet with honeysuckle? I think the house would look very cute with it and even cozy in the winter time with the soft glow of candles coming from the windows and the traditional wreath on the door.
My mind is already flooding with ideas for the exterior once we get it cleaned up and several soil samples will be taken and tested to get the yard back into fertile condition.
Einy keeps reminding me that we're going to be starting on the inside, most likely in the basement and then working our way up and through the rooms to fill the dumpster. I already know this but still it's fun to dream ahead. :)
Eventually we'll get a new porch along the front but for now I'm thinking Arts and Crafts style for the front door just slightly wider than the usual door size. I don't need all the side and transom windows around it but I find the door very stately and handsome on its own. Pair it with an old fashioned doorbell and the glitter of a welcoming porch light I think we'll have it made.
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| Wants to have as Entry Door |
Then of course there's the exterior and its siding. The butter yellow color is cute but not for this house in my opinion. For Einy and I we've always been partial to the color blue and then there are the whites. But I don't want this tiny house to be seen as a typical broken egg in rehab nor as a cookie cutter white on rice. I want it to be my gem. So I believe that we'll settle on a DARK sapphire blue for the home with white trim. The picture below is kind of a close example.
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| Kind of close to what I want |
The bottom one here is taken from a French magazine called Campange Decoration. While I can't speak a lick of French its got very pretty ideas inside of it. This of course is a bungalow beach house and looks black but in the larger picture of the magazine it's actually a beautiful dark blue.
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| What I'm going for in terms of color |
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