house/yard updates

I was in the process of painting our family room the last time I took pictures of our house...the painting's been done for awhile, but we finially put the last of the pictures up on the wall. I'm really pleased with how it turned out! Eddy wasn't sure about the orange walls at first, but he's come around.

This is the view looking down from the formal living room.


Standing by the piano, looking back up.


Under our family picture, my intent is to have a bunch of frames with pictures of all of our family members. We're missing a few, but will be filled in soon.


And this is the project that has been on my mind since we moved it (and laying on the floor for the past several days).


Eddy's been busy working on the grass and the landscaping/flowers are my thing. It's been amazing to look out onto our back yard and see how much it's changed. It will be fun to see flowers actually bloom next year (I think a lot of them were too crowded-out by weeds to flower this year).

This is looking out, off of the sunroom.


The section with the rocks was completely covered by weeks a few weeks ago. With Eddy's help, the weeds were pulled to expose the rocks, and more rocks were moved from where the wood chips are now. The wood chips make a small circular path around some landscaping. I planted two blue hydrangeas and one hosta in the rocks. The ground cover near the bird fountain had completely taken over the back yard landscaping. Some of it is ok, but it was getting overgrown.


This is a partial view of the center section of landscaping that is encompassed by wood chips. I was able to get some perennials at a garage sale down the street and have "discovered" many plants that two owners previous to us had planted.