Selections Review

After school today, we had a short but sweet meeting to review our selections.  Remember the selections from this post and this post?  I love selections.  I think in another life, or maybe another career, I could have been an interior designer. For reals, people, I could have.  Maybe when I retire from teaching--maybe.  Anyway, we went back to this place,

and we started off with a few questions I had written down (see my sticky note below?  I couldn't live without sticky notes!) as well as a few items we needed to review. After about 2 minutes the table looked like this.

It's covered in all our house selections goodness.  Today our task was to choose our fireplace stone, look at the granite options again, review paint selections and a couple other details.  We started off with fireplace stone and quickly narrowed it down to this beauty:

We knew we wanted stacked stone and there were only three options. Marilyn, the interior designer, pulled out our carpet and paint swatches so we could see which stone would work with those choices.  And the winner is above! We like it because the colors are similar to the rest of the house--light, bright, and white, with some neutral tans thrown in for good measure. Here's another shot of the fireplace stone with the granite choice.

The granite colors tie in really well to those in the stacked stone.  The fireplace and granite will actually be fairly close together in the house, so it was important for them to tie together visually.  They're both very creamy, warm and light, which is exactly the feel we are hoping to achieve.  Speaking of granite, we weren't super in love with our granite choice, so another thing we wanted to accomplish today was to look at it again. 

And we were happily surprised to see how much we do like it!  The true color is actually really hard to capture on camera, but it's a creamy (not yellowy) base with lots of darker accents (this should go well with our darker wood floors) and some white, too, which will be perfect with our white cabinets and trim.  We're happy we went to look again to confirm our decision on this.

We finished up with a few more details and then we were done.  The kids did come with us, but they were kept busy with the Ipads.

What on earth would we do without Ipads to keep the kids busy at times like these?  Kidding, of course!

Marea was also entertained by this wall of beauty,

and so was I.  The girl oohed and ahhed over all the tiles, declaring how colorful or smooth or slippery they were.  Hey, maybe she'll become an interior designer and then I can live vicariously through her!  Nah, she's definitely headed down more of a diva path.

Anyway, we've got cabinet selections later this week, plus the framing continues.  Lots going on for our new home.  Hooray!