Home Sweet Home

Well life as a married couple is wonderful!  The only regret would be waiting this long to become one!  Our first order of business as a married couple was to make the house our home!  Paul put enough trust in me to let me pick the color we would paint the living room and I chose green.  And this green isn't just a plain green, its what our friends affectionately refer to as "Kermit the Frog" green, but fear not it actually turned out okay!  Once we got all of the furniture in the color was much more soothing.

But from painting this whole room ourselves we learned the value of paying someone else to do it!

Thankfully we didn't have to do  much to the kitchen, I just added so pops of color on the counter.

Here's the other side of the kitchen looking into the dining room.  The little black buffet on the left is going to go to the guest room with baskets on the shelves for storage.

Now Paul was gracious enough to let us paint get a couch in the room before he abandoned all decorating whims to move on to the fish tank.  Now this fish tank was quite a feat to move in.  We built the stand ourselves (with the help of my handy dad) and it weighs over 200 pounds so once we picked its spot it is staying there till we die, because now that it has all the water and rock in it, it weighs over 1,000 pounds!  But I must say, it looks marvelous!  It is so soothing to come home to the sound of trickling water and just watch.  We have learned that even fish have personalities! Its adorable!

Now the next big task to tackle was the office, and boy was it ever a task!  During the wedding and moving process this became the catch all room.  It was utter chaos!  But after a few hours of dedication and perseverance I came out alive and with an organized office!

My favorite part is the built in shelves to hold little knick-knacks!

An a helpful organizational tool was an old hanging shoe rack that I used to hold art supplies, camera chargers and other small (often lost) things. 

Decorating our house together was such a fun experience and really solidified the reality that we are married because at first it just did not feel real!  But now we have a routine to things and life is wonderful!  

Enjoying our real simple kind of love!