The Beach House - BEFORE PICTURES!!!

It's official - we have a beach house!!!

We signed the papers this morning.

It stills seems a bit surreal...how did a 5-10 year

dream/goal happen "randomly" within 2 months time???

I'm calling it a blessing.

How often does THIS happen??? Are you ready? We put in an

offer to the bank...someone (not sure who) doesn't

get the papers in on time to the right place...whatever.

SO, they come back to us with a house price that's LESS

than our offer!!!

Wait now.........not just a little less.

Like $60k less.

WHAT???!!!!!

Yup...I'm calling it a HUGE blessing,

because stuff like this deosn't just happen.

This is an example of just one of many things I've

wanted to share with you, but had to be patient and

wait for everything to go through.

Now it's GO time!!! YAY!!!

This is going to be fixed up to be a vacation rental, so

get your beach gear ready and come out for a visit! ;-)

I'm SO excited I finally get to show some pictures I snapped

on my phone the first day we went out there to

"take a look". :-)

WELCOME!!! Lol :-D

Looking from entry into the living room and kitchen.

Pretty good kitchen to work with here!

Main Bath

Looking out from the dining nook.

Wouldn't you LOVE to grab a book or magazine

with your coffee, tea, or whatever, sitting

on a built in bench and enjoy the view???

I know I would!!!

That's my hubby coming out from the kitchen onto the patio.

Looking at the lower patio from the upper deck.

The upper deck and garage to boat launch.

A personal boat launch (that sold my hubby!)

This upper deck is HUGE!!!

A crazy panoramic pict. from my phone! Wow!!!

If you're looking for a place to stay this summer, well

here you go! We're going to whip it into gorgeousness!!!

If you are interested in supplying your products in The Beach House

anything from art, bedding, pillows, kitchen supplies, rugs, well...

ANYthing that belongs in a beautiful beach home

please feel free to e-mail me with questions! I will be putting together a

Design Resource Book that will be in the Beach House for rental

parties to look through as well as on the final webpage.

Be thinking of some great names for the place too!

I may run a contest or something and

the winning name gets a prize. Sound like fun???

I can't WAIT to get started and share this transformation

with all of you!

Here's to SUMMER!

~Anneke

A few things...

Well, I've obviously been a little MIA lately, but plenty busy. :-) We're just coming out of a big snow "storm", and I'm not sure I've ever been so happy to see rain! I have not been out and about since Monday...seriously. With three kids in the house - hello???!!!!!  Here's what we've been up to (and sorry...not editing photos tonight):

Obviously...it's been snowing!

Say hello to McConnell's Mukilteo Snowman!!! :-)

It didn't snow once last year (that I can remember), 

and the last time it snowed more than a couple inches 

was a few years ago!

Annabelle was out of school ALL week! We're talking

no school, gym class, mommy groups, play dates. :-/

Have you SEEN our driveway??? 9 out of 10 people

HATE

just walking up our driveway,

let alone driving.

Anyway..I digress.

I am thankful for my home!

And this guy. ;-)

Soooo, I was bored and decided to switch it up in our house.

Sometimes this can be bad, but we couldn't be happier with our decision

to change our office....

into play room!

It's on the main floor right next to the powder room,

kitchen, and living room.

Then our son is moved into the former play room

and the office is now in his former bedroom.

That was A LOT of hauling up and down stairs!

Another day while daddy was gone I cut up some

muslin fabric and let the girls use mommy's

big girl brushes

(OH THE EXCITEMENT!!!)

to paint whatever they wanted.

Just acrylic paints.

I cut and screwed together some 1 x 2 boards, wrapped the fabric around,

and stapled it with my new compressor and staple gun from the hubby

So we have.....

Lauryn's

Mine

Annabelle's

(The freaky eye!)

Michael's

(with mommy's help)

He just wanted to do this....

He had a little brush and kept painting little stripes on his arms and saying,

"I a tiger mama, I a tiger!"

Cute??? YES! Love that kid!!!

(Yes...I was freaking out not wanting the

paint to get on the chairs!)

Ok...as for work  fun:

I pretty much have 3 pieces done and waiting for hardware

and photo shoots

1. One of them is this piece.

Here's a sneak peak:

2. Another piece ready is an expandable table with a coastal finish.

3. The last piece is that pretty armoire that's been

"In The Works" up on the above right of the blog page.

Yeah!

ALMOST DONE!!!

I found this table at ROSS for $80 when shopping for my sister's studio

(pictures coming, I PROMISE!!!)

and keep wondering if I should just return it 

(because she didn't use it)

or PAINT IT????

What's your vote? 

Ok..there you have it in a nutshell!

Just a head's up, I am active on the Facebook page nearly every day

as well as Twitter and Pinterest. I love blogging, but have found Facebook

to be a more practical way for me to interact with others!

Please consider liking any of these pages, however

when I reach 500 Facebook fans I will do a 

giveaway. Why???

Because I LIKE you too!!! :-)

Thanks for stopping in today!

~Talk to you soon~

Anneke 

This Weekend's Big Find

Well, I'm not quite ready to reveal the hutch to you today, BUT I am excited to share with you what will be next in line.

Meet "Ava" (a beautiful name I love, but never made it to one of my daughters!)

My schedule has presented you with this night time pick, but I'll definitely get a brighter one for the sidebar. :-) Just wait until you see the inside - can't wait to get started!


I hope you had a great weekend.

Anneke

Need Some Design Ideas PLEASE :-)

So I've been "struggling" over our family/tv room, well, literally since the design stage of building our house. We've recently been talking about liquidating our couch, because the kids are going to destroy it, and I'm increasingly big on refurnishing from what you have every few years. But what to do instead???

We built our home with an open concept...kitchen, dining, family room all in one. LOVE it!

No....I didn't "clean" for picts. :-/ That's for afters, right? :-)

I'm open to everything except demoing...paint, furniture, I'd love to move the tv to the large wall, but what to put above the fireplace???, and then there's this wall....

This weird, angled, but necessary wall, that's bugged me since design stage.

That angled wall, with the large "focal" wall  where I'd like to put the tv (the wall and ceiling have specifically been wired for surround which we currently do not have), and the angled fireplace all have me slightly stumped. And don't mind that bench; it is temporary from the bridal shower! For reference, that art plaque thing is 47" x 47"!

So your ideas, PLEASE!!!  I am asking for any colors, textures, furniture, arrangement, fireplace, decor, whatever...I will listen to it ALL.

The other opening goes to the "formal" space, closet under the stairs, and out to the garage....

Here is a close up of the fireplace....

And currently, ahem, "working", on the dining space, but here it is looking back from the wall.....

I'd love for it to feel more inviting and open, but still cozy. I'm not a big fan of microfiber couches (no offense!). I love the idea of a sleeper couch and the hubby needs some sort of recliner. We always had movie nights and slept out downstairs on the sleeper couch growing up. Fun memories. :-)

So...either here on blog or facebook, please share!

Thanks and have a great weekend,

~Anneke~