IF I WERE BUILDING A HOUSE......

when i found this exterior shot this morning on pinterest, i was LOVING it! and it made me think.....if i had to start from scratch and build a house, what would it look like?
so here it is, a tour of my imaginary house......and thank god my husband doesn't read these blogs!

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that front door? GOTTA have it!!!
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and last but not least, my husband and i leaving for dinner in our weekend car............oh i need to WAKE UP!!

NAVY BLUE...MY OBSESSION!

ONE OF MY FAVORITE COLORS TO USE IN A SPACE....ESPECIALLY IN FAMILY ROOMS.... IT MASKS DIRT, CONTRAST BEAUTIFULY WITH WHITES, FEELS CASUAL AND COMFORTABLE, LOOKS CRISP AND COOL IN THE SUMMER AND COZY IN THE WINTER. I LOVE LOVE LOVE NAVY! HERE ARE SOME REASONS WHY....

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oh the lazy days of summer....AND MY HOUSE IS A WRECK!!

the culprits?....see below!

the only reason why the shelf is neat is because R cant reach!

the floor in H and R's toy closet-can barely even see the hardwoods!.....and to think
 that i had this totally organized last week! other people's
kids are like this too, right?

out of control shoe basket, and some random...ugh!

my bookcase is no longer mine, but rather a remote control helicoptor landing area and lego display and junk center.

lego central!

 everyone's house is like this, right??

Living room in Roman style decor

It is lovely to make up all room of our devoted house in diverse styles feasible. several akin to it simple even as several people would like to glamorize and make their room very dazzling and colorful. Greco Roman style is applied for residence decoration most regularly these days.

The blend way of the Romans and the Greeks present a extraordinary essence to ones home furnishings. As much as the living room is apprehensive, you will find a range of choice in this style. The fixtures, living room frills, carpet, mat, mirror and countless other furnishings fundamentals which are used for the living room are finished in some attractive Greco Roman styles.

The colors and mean utilize in this technique of is the key appeal. You want to exercise the right arrangement to offer that Roman technique appear to your living room. Go to the furnishings store and surf regarding this style to recognize extra.

VIRGINIA'S OPSAIL 2012: DAY 2

 ONE OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR EVENTS I HAVE EVER SEEN..... INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC SHIPS SAILING IN BOAT PARADE FROM THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INTO DOWNTOWN NORFOLK FOR OPSAIL 2012.

WE THOUGHT THE SAILORS WERE FAKE AT FIRST.....UNTIL THE SHIP GOT
CLOSER.....CRAZY!

SAILING DOWN THE ELIZABETH RIVER IN THE PARADE OF SAILS

JUST ANOTHER DAY ON THE BOAT FOR R? LOOK BEHIND YOU!!!

THE INDONESIAN SHIP WAS CRACKING ME UP-THEY WERE BLASTING MUSIC AND THE SAILORS WERE DANCING HIGH UP IN THE SAILS-GUESS THEY ARENT AFRAID OF HEIGHTS!

DOWNTOWN NORFOLK

THE MEXICAN SAILORS...GOOD TO SEE THEM WEARING A  HARNESS!

COULDN'T ASK FOR A NICER DAY.

SHIPS DOCKING DOWNTOWN

Furniture for Hosting Events at Home

Among the accurate furniture pieces, you know how to utilize your residence furnishings to create a liberty that is just right for pleasurable. embrace the subsequent living room and dining room equipment pieces to formulate your house the common midpoint of the neighborhood:

Big Dining Room Table and Accessories

The midpoint of every house planned to divert is the dining room. gaze used for a dining room table that is great adequate to bench all of your visitors. Whether you arrangement to horde a buffet-style feast or a sit-down banquet, your table should be flexible. A minute china dresser that can twofold as a allocation table is a different great accumulation, as it will liberated up space for position surroundings on the banquet room table. augment the dining room scenery with the great lighting and garnishes to compose it in actuality work for you!

Sofa with Matching bit

    A sofa will permit you to swarm outsized proceedings that are further unfussy right in your living room. Whether you are study the big competition with your neighbors or congregation a movie night with associates it is vital to have prosperity of seating accessible for each. has relaxed seating and a enormous visual appeal. The extra chaise compose it painless to happily fit a lot of people onto the settee. mingle it with an overfilled ottoman to amplify the sum of accessible gap yet more.

BEFORE AND AFTER: MY LIVING ROOM

OKAY, SO I AM KINDA EMBARRASSED TO POST HOW MY LIVING ROOM USED TO LOOK A FEW YEARS AGO......I KNOW THIS IS UGLY!!! WE HADN'T HAD THIS HOUSE LONG AND I KNEW IT WOULD TAKE A WHILE TO GET IT HOW I WANTED IT......WELL, 8.5 YEARS LATER, I FINALLY LIKE MY LIVING ROOM...YAY!

BEFORE

BEFORE

AFTER

STILL NEED SOME PILLOWS