Wallpaper. I LOVE Wallpaper. Love it or hate it, it is here to stay. Whether you want to use it on just one wall of a room to add a small statement or paper a whole room for a bit of drama, you can’t go wrong adding wallpaper to rooms in your home. Good thing […]
As I type this exactly 1 year has passed since we received the keys to our home (Our Emerald Nest) and moved in. And, we love it just as much as from the day we received those keys (…well really since the 7 months before that watching our house come to life being built). A […]
Builder Basic. That was our backyard. Grass and bark and no more. Topping that off our yard is the size of a postage stamp with our neighbors’ homes just a few feet away, literally. When we moved in we had a vision of creating an outdoor oasis (as private as possible). Although the yard was […]
Mood Boards help people see your vision. I can walk into any room and have a vision in my mind of how the room should look and function – it is one of my superpowers. But, to help explain this to Leon, friends and family and help them see my vision, that is where creating […]
Drywall going in is a big milestone in the building process. Seeing the vision for a room is difficult, if not impossible for most people while a new home is in the framing stage. Seeing all of those 2×4’s and 2×6’s that you can see through to the other rooms can put you at information […]
Does your home have a name? We’ve never named ours until now. There are many reasons why we named our house and I would be lying if I said one of those reasons wasn’t for social media – Instagram to be exact. Hashtags are a thing. People create social media hashtags for important things in […]
This was my Superbowl. I prepped. I scoured Pinterest and Instagram and created folders with my most liked inspiration pictures. I then showed Leon my “likes” and we went back and forth narrowing our selections down to ones that we both loved. 4 hours. We made our appointment with the builders design center showroom. A […]
Let the countdown begin! We asked our builder representative before purchasing our home, “how does one of your homes take to build?” The answer we got back was about five and a half months from lumber drop. So imagine our surprise and excitement when we drove by our new home to see our walls going […]
Congratulations, you bought a home … You now have five days to list your home. Our offer for buying our house was accepted … Yay! And, now the clock begins – we have 5 days to put our home of 16 years on the market to sell … yes, you read that right … 5 […]
Well right now it is just a pile of dirt but soon it will be our dream home. We weren’t looking to buy a new home. We were only looking to refinance our house of 16 years. Buying a new home at this exact moment wasn’t in “the plan” we had just laid out for […]
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I am a Color Lover, Art Lover and Designer of Many Things. Putting my Interior Design Degree to use with the build of our new home - turning builder basic to beautiful. Follow along our new home's Instagram hashtag #OurEmeraldNest.