things i learned...

I wasn't planning on letting the "house" blog bleed over into this one....  but we have decided to have THAT blog (see the new button to the right?) made into a book at the end of this reno project so I can't put personal observations over there...

So this is a post on what I learned last week...

• i can live without the internet
• my hubby secretly likes cats and will make a trip to the store to get cat food for them
• we get along better when we are working together
• you can't take too many trips into town
• i need to make a list so i don't forget something at the store
• it's EXACTLY 9.5 miles from our house to town
• we can hear the trucks on the highway at night...even though we are two miles away
• if we don't talk to the stray dogs and don't feed the stray dogs and IGNORE the stray dogs they might go away....then again they might not
• i can cook with only a microwave...an electric skillet...and a bbq pit  
• and we only used the microwave for hot water...
• I am really bad at decorating..

so...I could use some decorating help.  We will have dark hardwood floors in the living room, kitchen and dining room.  We will have carpet in the bedrooms.  I own two regular size dark chocolate brown sofas, one dark walnut end table and one dark oak coffee table.

I need to figure out...

1. wall color
2. trim color
3. carpet color
4. accent colors
5. kitchen cabinet colors and counter tops and appliances and everything in the kitchen (can you tell we are gutting the kitchen ? lol )

The house doesn't get a lot of sunlight because of all the trees, so I need to stick with a lighter color palette.
So....any ideas?

I think tonight is the last meeting of my Civil War Love Letters group.  I haven't gotten any further along than last meeting so I hope to remember to take my camera and take photos of what everyone else has accomplished. 

Nancy