a roof, a color palette, and flooring selections

We have the beginnings of a roof!  After raining all weekend, it'll be good to get that bad boy covered up and dried out.

Week 10: the start of a roof

You can now see the shape of the house on the front and the back.  I love how the back has a lot of character.  You can see it from driving down the road, so it's nice that it looks good from a lot of angles.

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We took Friday off to make some paint and flooring selections.  We spent about an hour and a half at Sherwin Williams picking out our paint colors.  Below is our house color palette!  I think it looks quite pretty all together. 

Top: Warm Stone SW7032 (with Rustic Red SW7593), Creamy SW7012, Tiki Hut SW7509
Bottom: Sand Beach SW7529, Smoky Blue SW 7604, white dogwood SW6315

Warm Stone is our exterior color, with Rustic Red on the door and Creamy for the trim (inside and out). It's a little bit gray and a little bit brown, and a lot warm and inviting. It's also a darker version of our garage door color (which has a lifetime guarantee on the finish if you don't paint it!)  

Tiki Hut is for our island retreat of a bedroom.  We were drawn to this color, and it turned out to be the color from the model's master bedroom. Kismet.

Sand Beach is our main interior color (living, dining, kitchen, hallways). It's a pretty neutral and will go great in what I'm hoping is our beach cottage-y living/dining room area. 

Smoky Blue is for Big E's room.  His current room is a denim color and it really looks great with his furniture and bedding. So we're sticking with what we know and love

On the flip side we're going pink for Em's room!  White Dogwood is a beautiful soft pink, which will match her shabby chic floral decor perfectly.  She currently has a light blue room, which is what I was searching for again, so imagine my surprise when the hubs pointed at the pink and said "I really like that."

I love seeing all the colors together! Special props to the hubs and his eye for color!

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On to carpet and tile! Apparently it's a Midwest trend to carpet your stairs different than the rest of the house.  Works for me!  The brown/black/tan stair carpet with a vine design is super durable and it'll make a big statement when you walk in the front door.  The living area and bedrooms will have the carpet in the bottom of the photo.  We'll also have a hardwood floor for a lot of the downstairs.

Carpet for stairs (top) and rest of house (bottom)

The kitchen backsplash tile is very similar to what we have now, however I want to make a pattern out of 4x4 and 6x6 tiles.  We needed a light color since the cabinets will be stained walnut and our granite is dark.  The pattern and texture of the tile will give it some depth.

Kitchen backsplash tile

The backsplash for the downstairs powder room is a little cray-cray.  The photo doesn't do it justice. It's made of silvery/rusty metal pieces, frosted glass, and stone.  It's a small area so we wanted to do something a little different.

Powder room backsplash tile

The master/hall bath tile has a lot of tans and grays in it.  The photo here doesn't do it justice either.  The deco piece is mixed with stone and glass.  The brown glass should look great with the wood stained cabinets.

Master bath & hall bath tile

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We also managed picked out doorknobs before going to pick up our sick baby at day care.  Vacation days aren't quite what they used to be! Still, it was a good productive day.