New-to-you homes can be kind of a pain, don’t you think? You finally find The House, only to have to dump a ton of money into painting it because the previous owners decided to Subway gold was a hot color for the entire house. Oh, and dark green ceilings. Bleh.

Darin spent A TON of time painting. TONS. First primer, then a color called sandstorm.

Oh how nice, our eyes are no longer bleeding. This is typically what our house looks like close to Christmas. Football is the only channel we get when it’s cold.

I subscribe to a lot of DIY and decorating blogs and hate my house a little because it doesn’t feel like a home. It’s not really decorated. Why? Too many decisions. And also the little expense of feeding, clothing and housing four kids. Plus daycare. I rarely get to make home decor purchases.

Last summer we splurged on a roll of fabric for curtains in our living room. Over Thanksgiving my mom and grandmother sewed them and when we tried to hang them, well let’s just say it wasn’t pretty. The back half of our house is crooked and trying to situate the curtains just so, so the crooked-ness was less obvious, was stressful. And I had the wrong size rods. And our curtains were extraordinarily long, or so we thought.

On Sunday my parents came over and gave hanging them a shot. Obviously, it went a lot smoother because we finally have curtains! They definitely change the room, I think. And they definitely make me happier. We have this perpetually summer theme going in our house, I think. Beach-inspired, but not ridiculously so. It’s casual and airy with beachy things.

We’re still not finished, of course. (I would love to have an endless supply of money so I could afford all kinds of things.) We are looking at coffee tables and end tables, because we literally only have one table in this room. And I want a jute area rug, but first we have to remedy our puppy pee-pee problem (sigh).

But there you have it: curtains!

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