Our NEW House

We moved a couple months back to Clarkston Michigan... a few have seen the house but MOST have not! Soooo, I thought I would post a few pictures so you could see the casa....

My favorite..the Kitchen
It has beautiful ceramic tile, stainless steel appliances, cherry cabinets, and not to mention..it's HUGE!! We didn't have to do much, just a couple of touches here and there..like the Kiss the Cook sign over the stove!!

Our Dining room...
I fell in love with this table the moment I saw it! I told Joe all I wanted was a table that we could fit everyone around when family would visit...and we got it!!! : )

The great room....
Of which only half is done, the other side will be the gameroom/bar, where we will put a pool table ...ran out of money: (
In this room we have vaulted ceilings, cherry hardwood floors, a great fire place, and a huge picture window.


Our Basement...the kids domain!
we have all their toys and dress-up, the train table, tv, video games...
otherwise known as a child's paradise!
Its hard to see everything in the picture and the lighting is not that great..but you get the idea
When we moved in the base brick part of the wall was orange and the top white. So we did a TON of work getting the brown and blue color scheme

My paradise is ALSO in the basement...its my office/Scrapbooking area!
The kids and I even made the bulletin board


The Kids bathroom
It sooo nice we have three bathrooms now...but wouldn't ya know it of course the kids are like...why don't we have 4? We have 4 people in our house, what if we all need to go at the same time?... Kids...always wanting more!!
Anyway, for those of you who know me know I am obsessed with Pottery barn. So I found this cute line called Spring meadow. So we got the embroidered towels, the shower curtain, the bath mats,I even found an artist on ebay that handmade the name signs, and if you look close you can see the wall decals we added with flowers and butterflies,caterpillars and snails. so CUTE, love it!

Kaden's room
He wanted an all sports bedroom...So again, went to pottery barn and found this adorable basketball quilt..can't see from the pic, but there are basketballs embordered in a lighter shade of blue. Then I found the rugby stripe duvet and went from there. He has soccer pennants above his bed and varsity name lettering above the window, both from the land of Nod. Also the artist from ebay made a canvas of a football jersey with his name and the number 5 for his age.. it really turned out so nice.. he loves it!
And by the way.. I am a BIG fan of craigslist as well and HIGHLY reccommend it to those on a budget or those who just like finding a great deal... I got ALL of Kaden's furniture, his bed (we haven't attached his headboard yet),nightstand, a dresser, and 2 bookshelves....for 100 bucks..not bad right!! This is how I justify my pottery barn habit

Kara's Room
I LOVE this room!! Again I started with the quilt which is dark pink on one side and light pink on the other, the found the duvet which is called "surfside" which gave me the idea for the theme..Aloha, hula girl! She has a grass skirt bed skirt, a blow up palm tree, lantern light string on her headboard, and flower lei's on her dresser. Three walls are pink and the accent is green...and let me tell you, it took a LONG time for me to convince her to do the green wall...because after all "it's not PINK!!