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.
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.