A Final Farewell

It's official, I give up and surrender. I surrender to baby gates, jumperoos, exersaucers and everything else that comes with having a little one. I mean he is totally worth it after all. I just wanted to take the time to say one final farewell to having a nice, clean and perfect house. Being an Interior Designer it has been very hard to let it all go. But go it must!! To all of you who I have planned on having over and you haven't made it, here is what I spent years decorating and this is the only way that you will ever see it. At least for the next several years, then maybe I can have nice things again and put out things that little hands don't want to grab or pull over!

This our main living room right off the front door. I guess you could say it is also our foyer since we don't have one. I painted the wall black just to create a seperate spot marking the entrance area. I hope to eventually create a tone-on-tone diamond (harlequin)pattern on the wall just to create some pattern and interest.We are also planning to repaint the living room a richer color of tan but for now that is on hold.

This is our kitchen. We don't have a formal dining room in this house. I made the window treatments and the chairs were given to us out of an assisted living facility in Gallatin where my mother-in-law works. They are great chairs but they needed some serious TLC. So Jason stripped and refinished them and we had them reupholstered. I love taking old things and making them new again.

This is our Master Bedroom

This is our Downstair's Guest Bathroom

This is our Half-bath for the Bonus Room and Design Studio

This is my Design Studio/Office Area

Jason built this shelving unit for me custom with sliding drawers to hold drawings and project boards. Above I installed a wrapping station for gifts.

This is our Upstairs Bonus Room. We finished this entire part of the house ourselves. I think it best shows my true design style which is a more transitional style of design. My downstairs is much more traditional.

Jason also built in the window seat. It has tons of storage in the bottom of it and I made the window treatments, the boxed seat cushion and most of the pillows myself.

This is Leah's Bedroom. We decided to go with a Bohemian style for her room since she is a teenager. Her headboard is an old 5 panel door that I found at a salvage yard and stripped and painted chocolate brown. The message board beside her bed is an old shutter from a house that I also found at a salvage shop. I cut out the top slats and covered a piece of plywood with corkboard and then upholstered it. This way she can hang pictures and cards and I made sure that the bottom slats were turned up so that she can slip magazines over the slats and they would be held in place.