My House- Part One

One of my favorite things to see on a blog is a someone's home.  I love all things decorating/design and it excites me to see a creative and well put together room.  Through my blog browsing over the years, I've discovered that I love seeing a lived in, real person's home WAY more than magazine picture of some crazy expensive professionally styled custom home.  So for that reason, I'd like to take you on a little tour!  But first, a little background on me...

I think my love of decorating may have come from the 13 times I moved growing up as an army bratt.  We always tried to unpack and make "house" as quickly as possible, even if we knew we would only be there a few years (or 6 months!).  It didn't matter if we were renting the place, living in a stairwell apartment, duplex, or house, it always felt like our "home," and I am grateful for that. 

The home I live in now is the first and only house Paul and I have ever owned.  We've lived here for 6 and a half years now- which is about twice as long as I have ever lived anywhere!  Even though its a small house and we won't live here forever, we made a decision to really invest in this house and make it our style, instead of thinking "one day, we'll have a home we love."  This is where we live now and its important to me that it feels like home.  After arranging, rearranging, painting, and repainting, I think I have learned a lot about what my style really is.  Its definitely not perfect or magazine-worthy, and there are of course still things I'd like to change, but I can truly say I love living here and the way it makes me feel when I look around.

So to begin the tour, we'll start with a room that actually doesn't even exist in our house anymore- Charlie's nursery.  These pictures were taken back in March before we moved his crib out and made it into a "big boy room."  I just loved this sweet little nursery.  Can you tell there's a tree painted over the crib?  Paul painted that and it was beautiful. 

Oh look, there's little Charlie.  How'd he get in there?

This was a sweet little room for our sweet baby boy...  more to come!