A Wall of Windows

Here they are in all their glory.

When we drove out to the farm yesterday, we couldn’t get there fast enough. We knew the crew had been working all day the day before on framing and setting the windows, and that they would be in by now. And they were!

I wish I could show you in person how good they look. Pictures don’t do it justice because it’s hard to see the scale in photos. They make the room feel 20 feet tall and so much wider than it is. It just feels bigger all around and like you’re truly outside; one with the hill and the mountain. I can’t wait to see all the walls covered in the vertical boards and the windows trimmed out. It’s all going to look so good!

The view from where the kitchen sink will be is stunning. PJ purposely aligned the living room windows with the kitchen so that. the view from both rooms would be straight on:

The new windows are a bit taller than the old ones, allowing for about a foot more of the mountain view than before. Here’s the view now:

And here’s what the living room side of the house looks like from the outside:

I can’t imagine ever wanting to leave this place.

Moving Furniture Around for a New Look in the Front Room

Do you ever move furniture around your house just for fun?

After five years of the same front room setup, I decided it was time for a change. So the other day while PJ was at the farm, I moved the rug, the couch and two chairs for a completely new look. It feels so much bigger now!

This is what it looked like before:

The new arrangement is actually the same setup as our front room when I was growing up here. My family had the couch under the three windows and a chair by the bookcase. It feels like a special little nod to my childhood having it set up this way, and I really like it.

PJ likes it, too, thankfully. I first told him we could live with this new setup for a few days, as I was on the fence about it, but I’ve grown to really like the new layout. We had Matt and Beau over last night and the new setup made sense in a conversational setting, which is the real test on if a seating arrangement works or not.

Growing up, I was always rearranging rooms in my house, much to my family’s dismay and annoyance, but I didn’t mind. It brings me joy, and life is too short not to do things that bring you joy, right?

I honestly didn’t mind the previous layout, I just wanted a change for the new season. It feels good to switch things up every now and then!

These Tulips Are Fake, But You Would Never Know It

A few months back, Nancy Meyers posted a photo of her den with a vase filled with beautiful tulips and it completely stopped me in my tracks. How stunning is this entire room?

source: nancy meyers’s ig

I’m sure they are real and expensive and they look so perfect just sitting there in her drool-worthy den. Color me inspired! I had been wanting something for the dresser in our bedroom, just a little something to make it look finished. We have a lamp and some books, but it needed some greenery, as every room does. The only problem is our room is so dark and never gets direct sunlight, so real plants aren’t really an option in there.

After a quick search on Amazon, I found these fake tulips for under $20 and I am in love. Don’t they look so real? I through them in a vase we already had while PJ put a little water in it and separated and bent the tulips to make them look even more real (a trick he taught me!).

So there you have it! The cheapest, best looking fake tulips out there.