Apartment Therapy, Week Four, Five and Six

I'm all over the place for the last few weeks. But I think we'll manage to pull it all together when Week Eight finally rolls around. So to catch up, from Week Four, I identified where we need to increase color and where we need to increase softness. This house was suffering from too much hardness....ahem which normally I'd say was a good thing, but jokes aside, as you can see I've started identifying a color palette for our home. We've picked out paint for the living room, and for Addison's room. Doing this has made so many things easier! So just this week I made a list of everything I want for the whole house to pull things together. As for actually adding the softness (Week Five) I purchased a rug, which you can see in the living room.


This was from Cost Plus for $500.00. It's mostly wool, which is what I was looking for eco wise, and it's thick and feels good underfoot. so maybe another of these under the dining table, then with painting I should be able to find curtains, and that adds the softness we were missing.





From Week Six I did some lighting in the kitchen, it was always dark when washing dishes, but no longer! Additionally I hooked up and fixed up the existing in cabinet lights. I'll need to do some more work on those, but I like it! Also from week six, I went through and de-cluttered the bathroom closets and I brought some reds into the bathroom and worked on making it nicer for guests, putting paper out in an obvious spot, and adding washcloths. You can see the red as my accent color is showing up all over the house.

Week Six is also about painting, so I think here is where I will pause again, to prime Addison's room, and paint samples on the walls in the living room. The house is starting to feel really good! OOH OHH I also bought some plates so we have a set of 8 now, and we don't have to keep rewashing the two bowls we had! So that's back from Week Two!

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone. I like to remove this holiday from it's Native American connotations, just cause sorry, it gives me the willies to celebrate when that culture started to be dominated and eradicated. Sorry family for my deeply liberal stance! What I do like though is the gratitude part of this holiday. So for everyone reading, know that I am deeply thankful for our health, our home, our family. And thankful for you my friends.