I Need Your Help with My Bedroom!

Little by little I am adding accessories to each room and trying to make them look a bit more "finished" or at least like we're not still living out of boxes! (You should see our gargage!!)  So, our bedroom is on the first floor and of course everyone can see it as they come in the front entryway.  I have always been one of those people that makes the bed, as soon as my feet hit the floor each morning.  So, keeping it neat and straightened is not an issue.  My issue has to do with the wall above the bed.  This is where I need your help!

I like having the bed on the wall across from the door, so you see it when you walk in.  I have now realized that we need better nightstands to hide some of the light cords that fall behind them.  Your eye just goes there when you look into the room (at least my eye does).  But besides the nightstands, I have run into an issue with the wall above the bed.  As you can see from the photo, there is small window on the right side.  It is cute, it brings in light, it has plantation shutters (my fave)...but of course, it is not centered.  What do I do?  The window is on the right, the bed is in the middle.  Do we hang photos, a decoration, some kind of wall hanging above the bed?  Do we leave it blank?

In our last home, I had a cute arrangement of black and white photos from our wedding in black frames.  There were four of them and they look perfect above the bed.  But I feel like here it might look odd to do a photo arrangement above the bed with that window on the right! 

So, what do you think?
*Leave the wall alone.
*Go for it with the photos, it's okay with a window on the right.
*Hang something on the left side of the wall and leave the center open.
*Or you have some wonderful and creative idea I haven't even thought of with fabric or curtains or something!! Thanks for your help!
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How I Met My House!

So, I am linking up today with Our Suburban Cottage and a little "How I Met My House" Party that Ann Nicole is having over there.  Since buying, selling, moving, and decorating our new home has been such a huge part of our lives recently...I thought this was the perfect party for me!  I love to write and this is a topic that it's good for me to share about because our home is so important to our family.  So here goes, how I met my home...

This story begins not too long ago, just 4 short months ago to be exact.  I'll never forget how the conversation started.  My husband and I were laying in bed having some pillow talk when he said to me "I think we need to sell our home."  I turned over and with tears in my eyes told him that I couldn't even talk about that, let alone think about it, because I had my dream home.  He agreed to stop the conversation and let me forget about the topic.  But I couldn't forget.  Over the next couple of days I prayed that God would give me the strength and openess to just talk about the reasons my husband felt we might need to sell.  And within a couple of days I was ready to listen.  We discussed our priorities, our desires for our family, and dreams of more days spent together.  We realized that in some ways we were holding onto a house that was much bigger than we needed and it was requiring us to work much more and be stressed out financially.  My heart softened little by little.  After days of tears and more openess, I realized that my husband was right.  Somewhere along the way we forgot what was important and what we hoped and dreamed of for our family.  We wanted to free ourselves up to serve, to love, and maybe even for me to be able to stay home with the kiddos while they are little.  We needed to make a huge change and that meant putting our house on the market.  So, I cried some more.  I thought my home was everything...wrapped up in each memory, providing stability for our family, and decorated with love.  But within a couple of weeks I had come to terms with saying goodbye to this home and trying to find a new "forever" home for our family.  It actually became an exciting adventure! 

So, we listed our home about 2 weeks after this emotional conversation, in the middle of December.  Were we crazy?  Homes were not selling in this economy.  So many were just sitting there in our neighborhood.  The holidays were around the corner and who wants to buy a home at Christmas time?  But God was taking care of us because on December 24th, Christmas Eve, we went into escrow on selling our first home. 

Now a new search began.  Where were we going?  Would we find a home that met so many of our wish list items my husband and I wrote down, and still be in our price range?  Well, guess what...we found it!!  My husband somehow stumbled upon a home (not even listed in the MLS listings for some crazy reason) in our dream neighborhood, the perfect size, with a gorgeous backyard, in walking distance to school, with a front porch, and even less than we expected to pay!  It was the house for us and met every single wish our on our list...every single one!!  From the moment we walked in (rang the doorbell and the owner let us in) we knew.  We actually mouthed to each other "This is it!" We had fallen in love, even amongst the faded paint, stained carpet, clutter everywhere, and outdated fixtures.  We saw what this home could be and we knew we could do it!  (And we are beginning to add our touch little by little.  Here is some fresh new yellow paint in the living room that makes me so happy!)

Just one week later on December 31st (New Year's Eve) we were in escrow on the new home!  But we had an adventure ahead of us.  This was an approved short sale, which meant we had to have a lot of faith in our realtor, we had a lot of paperwork to do, and we had to have a lot of patience that it would all work out.  And it did!  On my birthday, February 11th, we had the keys and we were floating on air!  Within two short months we had talked about selling our beloved home, we sold, we found a new home, and we made it ours!  We have a "to do" list a mile long but it doesn't matter.  We love this home and we know we have so many happy years ahead of us here!  It is better than we expected and sometimes we pinch ourselves that this all happened so quickly and perfectly.  We feel blessed to have "met this home" and to have made it ours.  Home sweet home!

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More Than Laundry in the Laundry Room!

So, one of the things we realized with this new house is that the kitchen is quite small but the laundry room (right next door) is huge!!  I am a believer in finding a use and organizational system for every area of our home.  With all this space in the laundry room, it is used for much more than laundry!  After using some other crafty bloggers for inspiration, I got started on my own laundry. 

It's got it all...baskets for odds and ends, hooks for jackets, a magnet board for menus and important notes, a calendar for the month, cubbies for shoes, mail sorters, and even a space for wrapping gifts!  I love it!  Take a peek at my new and organized space.  Little by little this home is becoming a bit more of ME! 

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