If I had a Million Dollars...

...I'd buy ALL of this! I was flipping through my new Southern Living this afternoon and found a web site: www.leontinelinens.com. I decided to check out the site as I thought the monograms in the article were really great. This stuff is GORGEOUS. But, be prepared to drop some money. No, I haven't ordered anything, and chances are, I won't be anytime soon. However, I'd love to see my (or our!) monogram in these gorgeous appliques all over bed linens, bath towels, and napkins. Fantastic! I just had to share!

Brighter and Better!

All of you know that the house was a dark, dungeonous cave when we bought it. So, anything we can do to add light makes me excited! These pictures are all out of order, but you'll get the idea...new paned glass door from the mudroom into the kitchen, and then one between the "official" mudroom area and the laundry room. I'm excited because we're so close to being done with this room. We went to Ikea a few weekends ago and found wooden shelving that we're going to use around the fridge out there. Of course, we didn't buy it there (we wanted to make sure all of our measurements were just right) and then got home to order it online and found out that most of the pieces were only avialable "in store." Why? Oh well, we'll be back down to ATL soon and will purchase all of the pieces then. After that we'll be putting up countertops and other than "decor," it'll be done! Yea! Another thing to check off the list. Then, on to ripping out and re-doing the downstairs bathroom and painting the exterior. We're re-financing the house and have an appraiser coming tomorrow. Let's hope that all of this sweat equity has paid off and that the house is actually worth more than when we bought it! :)

New french doors (to be painted white!).

And, the finished product. SO much better!

Still some scraping to be done..

Before paint..

The old solid wood door. No light and boring!