house tour

i love real estate. therefore, it should be totally unsurprising that i started this blog as a diary of my house hunting journey.  even though i have been living in little orchid for a year, i still have a slight obsession with home-buying.  enter my DVR, overloaded with house hunters, my first place and property virgins; thank you HGTV.  while i still feel there is so much more i want to do with my home, i originally intended to document the transformation process, and so here is the first sneak peek:

in first looking at pictures online of the listing, i was in love with the purple walls!  in person? not so much...  so in came my paint brush, down came the shelves anchored into the wall, and i ushered in some new furniture courtesy of my favorite store ever - ikea!

i was most excited about getting bookshelves to display things on and add color to the room; i went with pecan sandie as a base color for most of the house, and it was perfect for adding pops of color!  you will notice (if you know me personally) that those are not the original couches that i moved in with...

these two decided to eat them!