Let's talk about floors, baby!

My favourite chair on our floorboards (still unsure what colour to reupholster the chair- book pillow from society 6).

We got some new floors and boy are they making me smile. I would have taken a before photo with our furniture but from the moment we moved in the room has been a storing place for all the junk we weren't sure where it should go. The front wall has already received a coat of silver dollar and I have replaced the pink curtains in the front room with some cheap sheer ones from kmart until we have painted and can sew up some cute ones- I want some time first to decide on the right kind of fabric.

See Before and After

It's a shame the after photo is not clearer. The light was awful for photographing the room all day and I had to leave back to the country at 2pm so this was the best I could do to capture the change. The hallway wall still looks kind of pink but it is definitely a nice grey colour now.

And from the other angle you can really see the beauty of the wooden floor.  This front room will eventually be called the library but right now all we have is a small thrifted white bookshelf in the corner. I can't wait to see the change giving the room a nice fresh coat of white will make. For now though I'll just enjoy looking at my shiny new floors :-)

Lisa x

Choices, choices, choices!

I have decided to be more adventurous with my paint colours for our new home. For the first two homes we lived in (and still currently live in) I simply went for white walls (which is always lovely) but this time I've been thinking let's experiment.

The first room we are going to tackle is the hallway. We have already added blackwood doors and now it's time to change the walls from the delightful pinkish colour they are.

From the above picture you can make out the marble trim which is also in the hallway and guest room (none of the furniture in this photo is ours). The marble trim is amazingly painted and I know getting a professional painter in to add a marble trim would cost a bucket load. I don't really love it but we're going to paint the walls first and see how it looks with the marble still there. For colours we have chosen 'silver dollar' and 'cray grey' by Taubmans. We are just going to paint the hallway and if it looks fabulous then we will paint the library the same colours too. We have just done a little paint test but once the walls are prepped, then we will paint the rest.

Another thing that we desperately need to do the hallway is to change the white carpet. It is so easy to get dirty and the hallway will be such a high traffic area. After looking at wooden flooring for hours we have concluded that we're going to go for laminate flooring for the time being...then when we're suddenly rich we can add wooden floorboards to the whole house :-). My Dad has kindly agreed to put down the laminate flooring which will save us a bunch. After looking for hours it seems like 'blackwood' from Lecornu is the winner. It helps too that it's 20% off at the moment too (blackwood is the middle one).

I'm feeling excited now that we're making some choices and just going for it. Hopefully it will end up amazing and if not, I can always go back to my love of white.

How do you go about making house choices?

Lisa x