I really need to start making headway around this house so I've picked the first room I'm going to spruce up...the dining room. You might think, "huh, that's weird you barely cook!" and while that's true I'm trying to turn over a new "cooking" leaf. And, when Loren and I ranked our house to-do list this room seemed like it had the least to do. :)

This is a picture from the house listing: 

And here's what we're dealing with now: 

Once I knew we were going to buy this house, I had started thinking that I might like to incorporate a little more navy blue into our decor. In the dining room I thought doing a dark blue on the upper portion of the wall and then adding some molding and a white to the bottom would be pretty. Last week while perusing Pinterest I found the perfect "pin" that had the blue I was looking for but a lot of my comfortable beiges.

The picture is from an old post at The Creativity Exchange and I just thought it was awesome! Unfortunately, the fabric pictured is a little too spendy for my budget but I'm hopeful I can find something similar that will work.

Here's the to-do list for the room:
 - paint walls & trim
 - add molding to lower portion of wall
 - purchase rug
 - make/buy curtains
 - purchase chairs (might be the most important thing!)
 - add art/personalization/flare

I actually picked up a rug from Ikea already and like it in the space. Might seem backwards to get the rug first but it's neutral and I was antsy to take out some of the echo in the room! Hopefully I'll be back with some progress next week. Hope you have a good weekend!

Love,
K

Moving In

Right after our busy trip to Washington, we scheduled movers to come and load up our belongings from storage and deliver them to the new house. It was a crazy, busy day but it was so great to see our stuff after a few months!

The movers did a great job getting everything into the house, and I started unpacking right away. Right away I noticed some damage to a few pieces of furniture but the majority of our stuff arrived in good condition. 

It has to look worse before it gets better right?! My unpacking method is basically to get things out of the boxes and then find places to put it away. I feel like it's easier to clean up when you can see everything instead of just having boxes everywhere.

Things are starting to look better...the garage still has some unpacked boxes, and some items that still need to find a home but in general it's making a little more sense.

Next up is getting some more personal touches up so it feels like we live here. I know the walls need to be painted but we love having pictures up so I'm willing to hang stuff up and take it back down. 

Anyway, wanted to give an update on things. As always, thanks for stopping by!

Love, 

K

The New House

We bought a house! 

I'm so excited to have a place to be able to settle into in the Chicago area. Living in our apartment has been fun, but it's been difficult not having our own furniture and decorations. Here's a few pictures from the listing. The house has good bones and we love the flow of the place. It's going to be fun making a new house home.

We're really excited for our Ruby girl to have a yard to run around in. Our house in Washington only had cement in the backyard and living in the apartment she hasn't had any place to run and play. There's big trees and she loved sniffing and running around when we let her in the yard after the inspection.

Thanks for reading, hope you'll come back to follow along as we settle into our new space and town.

Love, K