I Don't Normally Like Change, but I Love This!

We have had painters here this week to update some of the areas in our house. We've only been here 3 1/2 years but with three little ones and the previous colors we had...well, let's just say that it wasn't workin' out. Just thought I'd share some pictures of what we had done. I LOVE the colors we chose and how they actually turned out!! (And thanks to my bestest friend Stephanie for the living room color...I actually "stole" it from her.)

Well, I thought that I had a picture of our living room before but I guess not so here is what it looks like now. The paint color is called Mississippi Mud by Beher. It is so different from what we had, but I love it! I joke that I'm afraid of color because you just never know how things will turn out, but this turned out great! It's dark enough that if..no..when little finger prints end up on it, they won't show up as easily as the other color we had(it was almost an ecru or khaki color).

Oh and yes, the walls and tv area are bare at the moment. I'm almost afraid to re-hang pictures on the walls, but all in due time...all in due time.


This is part of our stairwell.


The biggest change for me has been our bedroom and bathroom. They are painted the same color and it's sooo relaxing and automatically a calming color. The color is called Sonata and it's also by Beher. It's almost as if you are looking up at a beautiful blue Spring sky.

I especially love how the ceiling turned out!






We have also decided to get a new bedroom suite. A more "grown up" bedroom suite I should say. We decided to downgrade from a king to a queen. I know...you're probably thinking we are crazy for doing that, but we have had a king size bed for the last six to seven years and feel like we are on opposite sides of the room from each other. We want to feel closer together (as if we need to be any closer..HAHAHAAAA!!)..Does that make sense? Anyway, we are hoping to get the suite this weekend and I have already called and ordered our mattresses. We have a local guy that I used to go to church with, who owns a bedding store and he actually makes the mattresses there on site. He also is basically the only person still in town to have flippable mattresses. We have had a non-flip (aka: unable to flip) mattress and I hate it. It conforms to your body and has no where else to go so you are left with your "hole" and your spouse is left with his "hole" and then there's a hump in the middle. I like the flippable mattresses because after three or so months you flip it and things go back to where they are supposed to. It makes the mattresses last a lot longer. I'm soo excited and am hoping to be able to pick those up this weekend too!

I'm also excited about our suite because we will actually have a dresser and mirror. I have never had a dresser in my life. I've always had a chest of drawers and that is what we have now. It only has five drawers in it and all of my things are crammed into two of the drawers and David has the other three. No fair huh? Yeah, so I have told him that when we get the dresser, it's all mine and he gets the chest of drawers. LOL!!

When we went to visit my aunt and uncle back in 2008, my cousin had re-done one of their bedrooms. She had this comforter on the bed that I fell in love with. I found one at Bed Bath & Beyond but wasn't able to purchase it at that time because I knew we might be getting a new bedroom suite. Well, now that we really are going to do this I went in search for the comforter again. This time, I couldn't find it on their website and barely found it in the store. I saw one on the very highest shelf of the bedding area and asked the associate if she could check on it for me. She climbed up the ladder to only find a king and two double sizes. So I asked her if she could search the other local stores to see if they had a queen size. She told me that it was now considered a "discontinued" item and more than likely they wouldn't have one. And of course, they didn't. BUT she said she could order it for me and they would search the stores in other states to see if they could locate one and then it would be shipped to me. I said ok. So I ordered it and thankfully she said that they would NOT charge me for the shipping AND I had a 20% coupon so it ended up that I was going to be able to get what I wanted, which was normally $150 for only $88. I was soo excited and told her YES,YES, order it for me!! It came about a week later and I'm sooo excited.

I know it's going to look beautiful against the new paint color. I'm tickled to death!! Thank you Lord for GREAT deals!! :)