House Updates

When Shawn and I moved into our new house in August we had an understanding that besides the nursery and a few decorations here and there, we would be waiting quite a while to fill all the rooms and put up too many decorations. Our house is brand new and we picked out everything in it, so there aren't that many things to do.

During the past few weekends, I was reading some pottery barn catelogs and looking online for some ideas on wall decorations. Since I had many of the materials to put everything together I went ahead and decorated 1 1/2 walls.


The first wall is in the kitchen/entry way. Our plan is put a buffet/wine rack on this wall, but it still needed something on the wall. The idea came awhile ago from another blog and I had everything that I needed in the closet. I put a curtain rod on the wall and used it to hang a wreath I made out of tissue paper. Above the curtain rod is a sign that I had in our old house...it reads, "And they lived happily ever after". On either side of the wreath I added hanging picture frames. The frames have baby pictures of Shawn and I in them, which may change once Madelyn gets here. Until we get a buffet, I put our small half table underneath.






The next wall is a very large wall in our dinette area. It is only half done right now, but just having a few things up there adds a lot. The idea came from a pottery barn catelog that had the word "eat" in the kitchen. I decided to get two shelves for the wall with one holding the word "eat" and the other for some pictures. I may add a few other things to make it more like a gallery wall, but I'm going to let it sit for now. The word "eat" is currently white, but I have the spray paint to paint the letters a brown color. When I came home with all of this stuff and asked Shawn to hang it, the first thing he said was, "Eat? Why do I need to be reminded to eat?". I think he just kinda goes along with whatever...such a great guy! :)





Besides the two walls, we bought two rocking chairs for the front porch. I don't have a picture on this computer, but take my word for it, they are adorable and add so much charm to the front of the house. I can't wait to sit and rock Maddie outside in the rocking chairs!

There are a few other things in the works before Maddie gets here. I have plans to organize the office and possibly hang some curtains in there. I also picked out curtains to hang in the family room. After that it will be all baby for a long time!