Yup. No more of this rental apartment nonsense. A house with an honest-to-God mortgage and sidewalks and a yard and, if I have any say in the matter, a garage.
I love interior design and looking at magazines and websites and real life places for inspiration for my one-day home. Unfortunately, because we don't yet know what home we'll buy and because we don't have money for renovating, I don't want to fall too much in love with anything so grand as a granite counter top. Granite is a one-day thing. But things like paint and a new sofa are achievable in the not-so-distant future, so that's where my design sights are set presently.
I find myself drawn to bright, airy, beachy interiors. Cold and sparse is not my thing. I love built-in bookshelves, and heaven knows we'll need them, as the husband and I are both former bookstore employees and serious bibliophiles. Here are a few pictures that are inspiring the heck out of me right now:
These bookshelves make me drool.
This is a beach cottage at The Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego. We visited the hotel on our honeymoon at my insistence, because that's where Marilyn Monroe filmed "Some Like It Hot." I love yellow walls with white trim, grey furniture, and of course, the ocean out the window ;) I love Marilyn Monroe. I love hardwood. If I could just live there, that would make me very happy.
Hydrangeas just make me happy.
Since a porthole window is likely unachievable, a porthole mirror would work in a pinch. I love me some nautical elements, especially in prairie suburbia ;)
So... when can I move in?
xoxo,
Gillian
