Dreams & Ideas...plus an update

Hello everyone! If you are reading this and you know us, that means that you have received our Thank You notes from the wedding! Thank you for joining us on our new blog. We are still in the process of getting our house set up...everyone told us that this was going to take a while and they were right! We have started our blog as a place to document the changes that we want to make to our house and to show our Before & Afters. Right now, we have a ton of Before pictures and not too many Afters! This is really just a place where we can gather our ideas and dreams to form an online inspiration board to help us design our 1957 ranch and to let you know about the family happenings...

Family Update: We are all doing well and enjoying our new family life. Reese is in kindergarten and loves it. She is beginning to read and is quite creative and makes us laugh all the time. Josh recently started a new job and is really enjoying it. I have been at my place of work for a little over 3 years and feel blessed to work with the awesome ladies that I work with! We are looking forward to the summer & working on our house!

So, here are some ideas & inspiration that I have found on the web...this is what I really love to do. I love art & design and I know that this will be something that I will eventually do for a living. Josh & I have very similar preferences when it comes to design, furniture & style...good thing! haha

Here is a partial shot of the front of our house (I will post a full photo soon). A brief history of our house: The builder of our neighborhood built this house for his own family in1957. A year later, he traded homes with another family, who lived nearby. They moved here in 1958 and lived here until about 2 years ago. The house went on the market in June & just a few days later, we put an offer on it...THANKS TO THE BEST REALTOR EVER. We didn't move in until September 1 (yes, a week after Reese started school and 3 weeks before the wedding. Yes, we are crazy!) The house was in need of updating, but the bones of the house are in great shape. The house has the mid-century charm that we love & that we will keep, while updating other areas of the house. Before we moved in Josh installed bamboo floors throughout our house, mostly by himself. He did a great job and we love the floors.


We have been dreaming and imagining what we could do with our house. What is life without dreams? Here are some of the things that I have found that I love:


{Before & After} from this amazing blog





{ohhhh, I LOVE these laundry rooms...now if the laundry could just fold itself!}

{I like what these rooms represent: modern, livable, comfortable & stylish}

{Below, Right: This is our sofa from Scandinavian Designs,
only ours is a darker shade of brown}





{This is part of an outdoor sectional sofa. Love it!}




{Some girly-style...maybe for my craft room?}




Well, we hope that you check back once in a while to say hello. We loved every minute of our wedding day and we are so happy that we shared it with you! Thank you for visiting our blog!

Josh & Elizabeth & Reese