What a beautiful home you have Marilyn! Looks like something you would see on HGtv! Do you mind me asking why you have built and moved so many times? I would never want to leave a house like that.

I think that the building and moving have to do with her husband being a contractor. I can see where you would want to live in a very up to date home for your husband to be able to show clients what he can do for them.

Marilyn, your home is beautiful!!! I love your front door!!! Mine is really plain but it fits with the house. And your kitchen cabinets are absolutely beautiful!! What a kitchen!!! Everything looks so very nice!

I would love to have moved a few times more than we have, but with my husband being a farmer we're stuck in one sparse area. We built our home 8 years ago and tried to incorporate as many ideas as we could to make it comfortable in our old age. (Handicap doorways, washer and dryer on main level, pull out shelves in the cabinets, and etc.) Once is all that we plan on building but I love to decorate and moving a few more times would have been fun for me. The last home that we lived in was an old farm house with a trailer house attached and we lived there for 19 years.

Marilyn Your house is gorgeous. I love the tranquility of it. The faux wall treatments are stunning did you do those yourself? I love to paint. I can't wait to have a place where I can.

Marilyn your home is absolutely gorgeous.

Marilyn, you have a BEAUTIFUL home. I want it. lol. :)

how cool...here are some pics of the inside of my home.
1. my bathtub after I painted
2. my bedroom
3. my living room/kitchen/dining room
4. my fireplace

here are some of my daughters bedroom after we painted and decorated it (we later added some more pooh stuff on the walls...it looks really cool now) :) we bought her new furniture and painted her room for christmas...which is why you see the little Christmas tree in her room :)

You did a really good job of decorating, Toodles. Tell your little girl I like Pooh also. Her room is really cute.

Thank you ladies for your kind comments. Yes, we move a lot because my hubby is a home builder, and he keeps getting new ideas he wants to build for us. Hubby says the key is to not spend a million dollars but make it look like you did. ;) One of our homes was one he built to sell but liked so much we moved in. The colors were okay, not my favorite, but it was a very nice home.

The home we are in now, we worked together on, but I got to pick the colors and the tile, granite, etc. (Actually, hubby is color blind, so he has to trust me on some of this stuff.) Hubby did the faux wall finishes. An interior designer painted the decorative fruit, leaves, and such. We actually have a mouse eating an olive over one of our doors. It's our "house mouse". (He also built our church building, and had a "church mouse" painted over one of the doors.)I did a faux finish on our wrought iron stair railing that looks really cool, but no one notices the faux finish there which is as it should be. It was done to match a light fixture hanging in our entry.

By the way, the leaded glass entry is one of my husband's signature features. If you drive through certain neighborhoods, the homes with leaded glass entries are the ones he built. Now the entry doors are getting much larger and have decorative wrought iron behind very simple leaded glass.

I could go on and on. I may sell valves, but decorating, HGTV, and home design are actually what I would like to be doing. Hubby would like for me to be helping him, but he says he can't afford me. :D He pays people less than I make to do what I would do for him. I don't think he realizes what we could do together.

Toodles, you have done an excellent job with you home!! You have selected a nice color palate to work with. It's a nice sophisticated look.

oh, thank you guys. It is nothing too fancy but this is our first home and we are learning a lot about decorating. So this has been our "guinea pig" home LOL. It is a small home, very modest, but it is perfect for us right now. Our next home will be more elaborate but we are not very big on HUGE houses...we only want what we need. Our next home will be at least 4 bedrooms with a bonus. We have 3 + bonus now and can't imagine bringing a baby into it :) so I guess that means we need another bedroom. Plus, I want to raise Danes again so we need a bit more room for that. We are also looking for 5 acres or so to build a house on...so I imagine the house will be a tad bigger than what we have now :) I want a LARGE bathroom and master bedroom and an open kitchen. Those are my big things. The living room needs to be at least as big as what we have now or our furniture will not fit LOL. ah...who knows what we will end up with...only time will tell :)

I love looking at your houses...you all have lovely homes!!

Toodles, hubby took a look at your pics, and he thinks you've done a great job, too. Hope you find the right property for your next project!!

Janet, I was trying to come up with a color palette that would work well with your blue accessories. I found this website: http://www.behr.com/behrx/workbook/
It allows you to select your blue as an accent color and offers color palettes that you can choose from. I picked a blue similiar to yours and it came up with about 8 different palettes.

If you visit a Sherwin Williams store, Home Depot's paint department, or any other major paint manufacturer's store or website, they have sample palettes and offer color coordinating assistance. Sherwin Williams helped me with the palette for our home. I fine tuned it because I wanted more tranquil colors, where they wanted us to use bolder ones, but their suggestions helped a lot!!

Bottomline, you need to feel good in the color that surrounds you. Wishing you much success with your redecorating efforts!!! :heart:

Marilyn said:
Which I think is one of the truest statements there is in decorating.
If you look in your closet and pick your favorite outfits, you'll see what you lean toward and what looks best on you. You want to feel that same way about your home. With my skin tone I look terrible in orange, and turn green in lime greens. For that very reason you will never find either in my home.

Well said Marilyn!

Toodles I love your home. I love the earthy feel to your colors and the fireplace is beautiful. It is very close to what I want someday. For now most of my decor is from the dollar store :eek: . Someday we hope to make it look much more elegant. Good luck on finding your new place.:goodluck:

Thank you Marilyn for the web-site. I played with it a little while and I really like it. I saved it in my favorites. It will take some time, but I'll get it done. I usually have to do everything myself, so maybe this summer or fall I can get it done.

I didn't show my bathrooms, one, I'm pleased with, but the other is horrible. I won't be able to do anything with it really unless I change the tub, toilet and sinks. When we first built the house, harvest gold was 'the thing.' Now it makes me sick just to go in there. I would love to get that changed too and hopefully sometime I will be able to.