The House We Built

Okay, so we really didn't build our house. We moved out to suburbia 2 years ago and got a great deal on a cape cod that a relo company owned. We moved from a 1600 square foot cutie-pie into a sweeping farmhouse (my view of it anyway) with a gorgeous front and back porch, tile and hardwood floors, huge picture windows and a master bathroom that made me cry the first time I saw it. Later on after we moved in, I found a list of things I'd wanted in a house and the Lord had given me every single item on my list! I hadn't even realized it when we moved! In fact, I'd forgotten I'd made that list, but God never did. He knew that I wanted a nice house and a happy family and lots of friends to fill it more than anything else in the world. He gives us the desires of our heart.

So here we are, two years later and I'm trying to, as inexpensively as possible, make it mine. We've done some major painting the past 2 weeks. The house was loaded with dark oak dentil molding, oak doors, dark oak wooden blinds....lots of oak. Yuck. It needed to be set free, so we painted all the trim in the living and dining rooms white and put a vanilla color on the walls. It's actually a Behr paint called Cottage White. It's gorgeous! The whole downstairs is light and airy and beautiful. I can see the whole side of my yard now. No more blinds! See what I mean?