The Handy Banker Has Been Busy!

My husband is a banker.  He sits behind a desk all day, "pushing a pencil" as they say!  Get that man home on the weekend, get him out of his tie and into a baseball hat, give him a tool...and BAM...he turns into..da, da, duh...."The Handy Banker!"  It's cuter than any transformation Superman has ever made!  The only thing Superman has on my hubby is the speed with which he's off to save the day!  We all know Superman is always available, always ready....my husband will more than likely wait until a football game is over to rush to my decorating rescue! :)

The Handy Banker was really busy this weekend...after the games of course!  (Can't blame him on this one though...can't miss those Auburn Tigers!  War Eagle!)  I've shown you our "ocean" bathroom and I promise we'll get to that bathroom...one day.  In the meantime, we have been working on our boy's bathroom.  We've already changed the "make-up mirror" light fixture, changed out the faucets and painted the cabinets.  This weekend's project for the bathroom was all about the tile.  HB got the tile partially down and the goal is to finish sometime this week.  I picked out the grout...I hope it's the right color.  Picking grout is so stressful!  The color never comes out exactly like the little color block on the bag!  I wish I had a before picture of this bathroom.  It started out peach with floral border.  HB installed the beadboard himself!  I told you he was handy!

A Room with a View

I can not believe that I'm about to go HERE...so soon!  If there is any room in our house that I wouldn't want you to see...it's this one!  Confession is good for the soul as they say, so let's just get real...shall we?  Okay...here it goes.  Our master bathroom has a beach scene painted on the wall, and it's been there for the entire two years we've lived here...ouch!  Yes, while we are...um...taking care of business...we do it with a view of the ocean.  That's better than any condo, right? How many condos have you ever stayed in where the bathroom had an ocean view?  Well, needless to say...this entire room (including the vanity) is on the honey-do list!  Maybe a little public embarrassment will move it closer to the top! :)

Pillows and Paint

Well, you've got to start somewhere...right?  Why not with pillows and paint?  These pillows and this paint color (the vase) are the inspirations for my living room's new, cooler, softer color palette.  I realize that I have picked the worst time of the year to try and transition my living room from warm to cool, because trying to find "cool" accessories as fall is approaching feels a bit like looking for a bathing suit during the cooler months to take on a honeymoon in the islands.  (If I sound like I've had first hand experience with this...I do...flashback 11 years, ha.)  Anyways, after digging behind all of the cute orange, red and brown pillows...I found these beauties!  It was love at first sight!  They were exactly the colors and texture combinations I had in mind.  Now I know that it will feel totally "against the grain" here for some of you to mix these patterns and textures...but go ahead and get outside of that comfort zone!  It'll be fine and you'll thank yourself later for stepping out!  I got them home and loved them even more! (Insert funny guy husband here...he said..."Well, I like them all except for that 'Homecoming Corsage' one", ha!)  Good thing is, my husband and I have an agreement...he handles the outside of the house...I handle the inside!  So the corsage pillow stays :)

As far as the paint color goes, I don't even know the name of the color because I randomly got a 3.00 sample of this from the home improvement store one day trying to match it to some curtains I had. (Yes, HAD..and not HAVE...stick around and you'll see I'm a crazy buyer/returner!)  I'll just call the color "perfect" because I love the way it compliments the pillows.  This was once a green vase and I've had to just make myself not paint every.single.accessory in the room this color!  Is there a rule about how many accessories can be the same color...if so...don't tell me, please!