My (future) Secret Garden

We're really getting into things at our new place!!  One of the biggest changes is the full wall of glass sliding doors in our new bedroom.  Here's the bedroom before we bought the house:
 

We planned to replace the closet seen (above) with a small master bathroom and to open up the bedroom to the small courtyard just outside. 

So...  the door arrived and here's what it's looking like right now:


I'm soooooo excited!!!  All weekend, we kept going in to stare at it.    The courtyard's between our bedroom & the garage and once we put in our patio & plantings in, we'll wall it in.  Here's the view from the outside right now...

 
A little maple tree is centered in the garden...  I'm going to trim it slightly & can't wait to watch it change throughout the seasons from my bed...
 
We're adding an outdoor shower in the right corner and I almost don't believe it!!  When I was a little girl, planning my dream house, it always included an outdoor shower.  When we found the house and I saw that we had a spot for it, I was so excited!!!!
 
 
I'll share more details on the shower itself as soon as I get to planning it. 

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I'm planning on growing vines all over the future wall - which will be metal....   I'm going with Virginia Creeper...  Again, because of the way it changes throughout the seasons...
 
 
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I'll probably grow a less invasive evergreen vine on a trellis on the garage so that in the winter I'm not looking at a little barren place & then also try to add in dwarf hollies or boxwood for more winter greens.  I can't wait to dig in!!

And on another note- The hardwood floors from Mountain Lumber (more on them later = AMAZING!!)  are going in today!!! wahoooo  I'll keep you posted with pics!!



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greige and white kitchen..



It was nice to take a day to rest this weekend because this week is going to get moving quickly!  We are starting our renovation this week on the kitchen finally and I am excited, I would be more excited if I did not own four million glasses that I have to wrap up!!!  I know that I am obsessed with glassware and apparently bowls but really I did not know I was that bad (note to self: do not buy any more glasses).  Aside from that I am still undecided on a color for the cabinets and the walls, I will try to get some pictures up to get your opinion on them  this week.

So I thought I would start the week off with some pictures of what my kitchen does not look like to give us all some inspiration about the subject.  

Happy Monday!

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Don't mention the C word but...

Hej hej! Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Do you know what I did? Bought my first Christmas present (eeek did I just mention the C word?!) - yes really! And I'm not even an organised person. I have a 4 and 2 year old and I promised myself not to have another December like the last one so this year I'm going to buy my pressies from online shops  - like my wonderful sponsors - L'Affiche Moderne  and LET LIV. And like the Sweden based Artilleriet, in case you need any encouragement, here are Artilleriet's inspiration images:






Photographs: Artilleriet

A show of hands for those who'd be happy to receive a present from this shop please?!

Do you have any great tips for some 'to cool for school' online Christmas shopping tips?

PS although I mentioned the C word I have made a vow to myself that I will not actually post any Christmas pictures until at least mid November - son don't worry!

PPS this is not a sponsored post  I just love the pretty pictures :)
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