:: flowers & painters

Woo Hoo, it's Friday.

Another quick week has gone by, I can't believe it.

I picked up the flowers above at my farmer's market last Saturday,

and they are still holding up all except the white dahlia's.

I love the green milkweed pods, I think they look so interesting.

I have painters here again today, 

so lots of changes happening around the wren's nest.

The kitchen has been painted...

the keeping room...

the laundry room...

the dining room,

and they are working on the foyer & the kids loft as I type.

That's a lot of painting that would have taken me days...

possibly weeks....thank goodness for professionals.

They finished up the kitchen & the keeping room yesterday,

and everything else they have done & are doing today.

It's so nice to have a freshly painted & cleaned space.

All of this moving things out of the way has gotten me excited

about ridding myself of a lot of clutter & things I no longer love.

My how we accumulate stuff we don't really need.

So, the rest of my day & weekend will be spent getting things

back in order around here. I so needed a fresh start,

and this has been the perfect catalyst.

I'm so excited about my new light & bright spaces.

I can't wait to share them with you.

Happy Weekend!

{peace, love & hugs}

Carrie

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:: countertop vignettes

Happy Monday my sweets. Wow, how quickly and busily last week passed. 

I was too busy to get back here to post a thing. 

I spent my one free day {Thursday} cleaning my house, well at least my kitchen. 

I pulled everything off of my counters and piled it on the table & gave everything a good scrubbing.

That's alot of stuff huh. 

I really don't like my kitchen's backsplash, so I always try to hide as much of it as I can. 

Someday we'll invest in a new one I suppose, but there are always more important things to be done. 

I think I'll wait until I decide to do a whole kitchen renovation, 

like painting out the cabinets and I would love to have butcher block countertops. 

It just seems so wasteful when you already have granite....I should be happy with it I suppose.

We always seem to want what we don't have.

I'm in the process of choosing a paint color for the kitchen and adjoining keeping room. 

I've gotten the painting estimates and all I have left to do is decide on my color and give them a call.

Why is it so much easier to make these decisions for someone else's home? 

I have been mulling this over for months now.

I really want to keep my custom curtains,

so I'm trying to find a color that will work well with them.

I have my color choice narrowed down to Sherwin Williams Macadamia shown above, 

and it's lighter counterpart Softer Tan {which I recently used in my clients home & love}. 

I'm so ready for a change, but I'm also scared it will look all wrong when it's done.

I'm kind of afraid that I'll miss my warm bold red walls.

On the other hand....

I'm really looking forward to a lighter brighter space, 

and the illusion of more of it.

Anyhoo, that's what's going on around here, and here's what my countertops look like now.

I just love baskets, and you'll find them all over my kitchen....

anything natural and woven is good in my book. 

I also love vintage goodies too, so you'll see plenty of that as well. 

Most everything in this vignette was found at a Thrift store, minus the lampshade {Target}, 

and the vintage cookbook & wooden mortal & pestle which were both inexpensive antique store finds. 

I just adore my vintage brass lamp with it's cute candlestick look & pull chain switch.

On the left side of my sink & directly behind my island cooktop I have my vintage tool caddy. 

This was a local antique store find which I have had fun filling with vintage wooden utensils.
Will you just look at how clean and shiny my countertops are, wow,

that's a perfect reflection of my vintage look coffee grinder lamp.

So, what do you think about my red walls and new paint choice?

Do you redecorate your countertops very often?

What is your favorite kitchen accessory?

Hope you are having a wonderful Monday : )

{peace, love & hugs}
Carrie

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:: master inspiration

I stumbled across this image on pinterest today,

and this is exactly the wall color I want for my master bedroom.

I'm absolutely dying over those walls and that color.

I love that the headboard is brown which mine is also,

and I've been thinking of painting our nightstands/chests

a pretty gray color to match the marble tops.

I never wanted my nightstand to match my bed,

but our bed is so high, and I was playing it so safe back then,

that I just ordered the same one my husband did.

The color of these pieces is perfect....and those lamps.

I adore EVERYTHING about this room,

and now I just need to find out the source for this image

so I can figure out what color that is on the walls.

Unfortunately this was pinned directly from Google,

and I can't find it through any of my searches.

I 've asked the original pinner if she knows,

but if you've seen this room, or know who it belongs to do tell.

I hate to use it without a credit, as this is poor web etiquette,

but I just had to share it today.

Oooh, and I will most certainly paint my vaulted/trey ceilings a lighter shade,

and find a beautiful chandelier to top it all off.

I'm so ready to finish our Master Bedroom.

So many projects, so little time & extra cash ; ).

What rooms are you daydreaming about making over?

Happy Monday!

{peace, love & hugs}

Carrie

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