come and knock on our door.

we've been waiting for yooooou.

actually, i've been painting for you.

so you know how you're supposed to change the locks on the doors when you move into a new house? well, turns out to be easier said than done, at least with our door. so long story short, we had to buy a new door.

so this was the inside of the door when we moved in.

it was just plain wood on the inside and the outside was the same maroon/burgundy/red/whatever you want to call it that the siding on the house was.

and i figured if we had to get a new door, might as well paint it some fun bright color!

so i was thinking yellows. austin was thinking blues.

so, naturally, we combined them together to get a green! valspar's beach grass, to be exact.

so here's our new front door! the color doesn't really look all that much like the paint swatch, it's a little more teal/turquoise-ish. and i love it!

and if you were to look really closely, you would see that i definitely need to put another coat of paint on the door. but, if you know me, you also know that i am lazy. sometime soon i will maybe put another coat on. sometime. we also plan to paint the entire room {and more than likely the paneling, if i can convince austin to let me} but we gotta pick some colors, make some money, etc.

but while we're talking about our hallway {or is it a foyer?} let's discuss this shelf situation i gots going on.

so when we moved in there was this odd little cabinet/closet thing in the hallway, built in to the wall {crappy cell phone picture, sorry}.

i couldn't really figure out what to do with it. both doors couldn't open all the way because of the doorway into the living room and with the doors shut austin just kept shoving random junk in there to hide. not ok.

so i took the doors off. and now i just pretend it's a nice little built-in nook for books and pretties and things.

but considering the new bright front door, i thought this little nook could use a little loving, too. so naturally, i painted it.

do you love? please tell me you do. and if you don't, well, nobody asked you. because i love. and it's my house. and i do what i want.

with austin's permission, of course. :)

now that that's done, i've got to go scrub paint out of my hair and off my skin. apparently i'm a bit of a messy painter...

february birthdays.

i know, i know. it's already march and i'm just now posting about some february birthdays. it's been pretty busy around here...

anyway. so way back at the beginning of the month we celebrated austin's 26th birthday.

i stopped by the cupcake kitchen to grab us some delish birthday desserts.

italian creme cupcake for austin and a red velvet one for me. yum.

and then austin opened his present from me. i got him a subscription to this old house magazine.

and yes, i realize we are just like old people. oh well.

then we met up with austin's family at biba's restaurant for some dinner. and by dinner, i mean garlic. because i think that's about all i ate. and it was awesome.

then later on in the month we celebrated steve's birthday.

and yes, this is a typical heard family photo...

pinterest inspired.

you do know what pinterest is, right? {careful: you might get sucked in.}

so a while ago i found this pretty little idea on pinterest, originally from here.

and since our bed now has a big window right behind it, i needed something to cover the window, but regular old curtains weren't going to cut it. and i happened to have some really long white curtains from the guest room in the old house...

so i reused them to create this:

how fun is that?

and pretty long curtains for the second window, as well.

i also found inspiration for my nightstand on pinterest, originally from here.

a few trips to goodwill and now i have this:

the middle one is my favorite one. i'm considering painting the other two in some neutral shades, since they are the hard plastic kind of suitcase and i figure paint would stick to them pretty well. i also need to actually secure them all together somehow since i have a sneaky little cat who likes to climb on anything and everything he can, as evidenced here, before we moved. can you find him in this picture?

yeah. that's him on top of the cabinets. silly cat.

anyway. those are a few of the pinterest inspired things that have been going on around here. we've been working hard the last month, working on turning this house into a cozy little home.

and just for fun, a few sneak peeks of some other house-related happenings.

and our nice little neighbors, bryan and kara {or maybe brian and cara?} baked us some yummy welcome to the neighborhood cupcakes. how sweet is that?

and now i had better get to work. these shelves aren't going to build themselves!