Decorating a Home in Real Life

My mom's shop has all kinds of great stuff for the home, and every time I go I rearrange my home (in my mind). I have a lot of ideas about my house of what I would like to change here and there. Most of my ideas take a lot more time and money than I usually have. I love color and have lots of it in every room, except my own bedroom. In the past two years I have been trying to create a calming peaceful sanctuary in there. It's really hard to keep it clean and picked up but it does seem to be my favorite place to be. I took out all of the patterns and colors and painted the room a creamy color, trying to keep everything off white and cream with a few touches of pale turquoise blue. There is a comfy chair for reading and some of my favorite pictures.

I have looked at hundreds of magazines and thought at times that I could use some of the ideas, then real life enters, and it hits my bedroom with a vengeance. The air is out downstairs in Ray's office so he is spending most of his work time in the chair in our room, along with all of his paraphernalia. And the stacks of stuff every where...? There is a huge pile for Goodwill, so that doesn't make things as peaceful as I'd like. Then there is the location of our room- it's right off the main traffic of our house so there is a lot of noise going by. Lately, I have used the Bailey trick and have been running a fan to block the noise, which is something you never see in the magazine pictures. Even with all of the extras in there, I still love to be there. And in November, it will take on a whole new life with the addition of a crib and a Baby's things.

Nothing in my house is really magazine ready, but I love to spend time creating a place where my family loves to live, which is why we have a home.