My Dream House Monday

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My favorite thing to do is go to stores like TJ Maxx, Marshalls, and Ross to look for home items. I can spend hours there. I love finding alternate and creative uses for every day things like lemonade pitchers, tea kettels, mason jars, etc. For example, I want a solid white, opaque, lemonade pitcher filled with flowers to match my living room. I have already found the perfect flowers, just waiting on the pitcher.

Something like this but with a white pitcher and blue flowers...



The idea behind My Dream House Monday is to entertain the interior designer/craft-loving part of me. Every Monday, I will feature a different room and decorate it the way I want (in photographic detail).

The first step of decorating my house, is to find out what house best mirrors my personality and preferences. One place I think of is a loft with exposed brick. This captures my 'artsy' side (I am not claiming that I can paint. I just like to be creative). I picture it being in Asheville, NC in the downtown area. The only problem here is I want to have a family and a loft downtown doesn't exactly sound baby proof.

Although it is gorgeous (sigh...)



So the second option is a more ideal home in a cute neighborhood. Something like this...

This is my idea of the typical american "starter home". I like houses that look like this because I see so much potential. Decorating schemes aren't limited by the architacture of the house. I absolutey LOVE the wrap around porch! That feature is a must on my house. I see rocking chairs and lemonade on summer evenings. When I picture my dream house, this is similar to what I see. Its functional for raising a family and also very pretty but this is about my dream house. Not the house I would settle for. I see something a little more like this...

Now this is more like it.

This is my dream house.