House Tour- The Living Room

So, I thought to get started I would show you what our house started out as and what it looks like now.  We still have a LONG way to go!  At this point, we still have some rooms that aren’t even painted… YIKES!!  Here’s what we’ve got so far.

Let’s start with the front living room, this is the room with the front door, so it’s the first one you see when you come in.

These pictures were actually in the “construction” phase of the house... scary, I know.

Then we painted…. and it wasn’t much better….

That’s the hubby J

This was what the living room looked like until about 6 months ago.  I DESPISED didn’t like the color, but I made myself live with it for about a year.  I really wanted to think about what I didn’t like about it (plus, Chris wouldn’t help re-paint it that soon after painting, I don’t think he wanted to move the piano).  I realized that I still wanted to go with green, but not that slap-you-in-the-face green.  I also realized that green was basically the only color in this room.  I was having a hard time getting away from the green and brown.  So… we started over.  This time I went with a different, lighter shade of green.  This new green is Sherwin Williams Grassland in eggshell finish.  I also added some pops of red.  I wanted to go red and green without a Christmas vibe.  I think by going with the lighter shade of green it looks less holiday-ish.

So there you have it... my living room, or as I like to call it, the green monster (at least it was when I painted it the first time).  Tomorrow I'll show you my kitchen... I better go clean it- you don't want to see my clutter!! 

-Brooke  Y

The Beginning

Welcome!  My name is Brooke Gillespie.  I am married to a wonderful, hard-working man name Chris.  We live off a little gravel road in the beautiful mountains of West Virginia.  The road ends not far after our house, so unless we invite people to our house, no one ever really sees it.  We moved into our house in January 2010, and are still trying to finish little odds and ins to make it fit to our tastes.  I wanted to start this blog as sort of a photo-journal; documenting the projects we complete on the house.  This way our house can be seen, even if it is on the little gravel road.  Honestly, I wasn’t too fond of the gravel road at first, but I am learning to love the solitude that it brings.  Lazy days in the hammock wouldn’t be quite as nice with the sound of traffic in the background.  Maybe one of these days, my kids can look back on this blog and see how we made the house on the gravel road a home.

-Brooke  Y