Anyone Interested?

[toodles]

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

[Forgivenmom5]

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

[Marilyn]

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.

[toodles]

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!!

[Marilyn]

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!!

[toodles]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

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!!

wow, thanks I really appreciate that. It really means a lot since this is my first house.