Getting Inspired

I am starting to get SO excited about our new house!!! We settled on our lot this week, and we just got the floor plans back from the architect as well! Chris drew out the main idea for the floor plans, and they are wonderful. Each night after Bradley is in bed Chris will spend hours fiddling with the floor plans, and drawing up different ideas. He is so talented, and I can't wait to get started on this new house....whoooo hoooo!!

I have become obsessed with our new kitchen, and what I want it to look like. I want to do a bright, white kitchen with distressed cabinets. I found a few pictures online for inspiration...

Of course our floor plan is totally different, but I love this kitchen...the pulls on the cabinets are gorgeous. I love all of the detail on the kitchen island as well. I would like to do a brown granite for the counter tops.


This might be my favorite kitchen!! I love all of the cabinet lighting. I was also thinking about doing a white subway tile as our back splash, just like this photo. The different colored island is a great idea too. Chris and I were talking about our island having all glass cabinets across the front for displaying china. Choosing everything is the best part of building your own home...it can also be overwhelming too!

I love this country white basin sink.

Chris and I have talked about doing this in our new kitchen as well!

This weekend I got the new pottery barn catalog. I found lots of great lighting ideas. I love these simple pendents for our bar area in the kitchen.

I am in LOVE with these hanging lights for over our kitchen table.

Last but not least is the office. I hated the set-up of our old office. When you walked it you saw all of the cords from Chris' laptop and printer. It was not appealing. Our office will be laid out a bit differently in this house. One side of the office will have two columns of built-in shelves, with a large desk in between. That is going to be my stampin-up, gift wrapping, crafting area (remember babe?). The other part of the office will be for our computers, etc. I am thinking about selling our dark office furniture and replacing it with something bright and white....can you tell there is a theme with this new house?? Bright, white, clean..........