Home Decorating

Today we hung window treatments for all the rooms except for the kitchen and eat-in-kitchen. The house definetely looks different with some color in each of the rooms. It makes it feel even more like "home".

But the kitchen ... I love natural light and big open windows. Matt likes to be able to shut himself off from the outside world and make sure people cannot see in the house. I can understand in the bedrooms and bathrooms, but it isn't like we ever walk naked through the kitchen areas. He wants to cover the windows. I want to leave them open. And we can't come to an agreement. I was thinking maybe roman shades would be a good compromise, but the size of the windows would require custom ordered shades. Matt would like blinds, but would settle for curtains that will close all the way.

What are your thoughts? Here is a picture of the windows. (ignore how dark the picture is) I would love some ideas.

Lights, Lights, Lights

Matt and I made an agreement that we were not doing any decorating outside this year. We even talked about not putting up a tree, but with three kids that probably isn't the best decision.

So last night I am driving home from the girls' gymnastics practices and as I drove down the street to our subdivision I had to do a double take. Clearly the house I was seeing all lit up in lights could not be my house. Afterall, Matt and I agreed that we were NOT doing any outside decorating. And as I drove closer the kids confirmed that it was our house.

So what if we were known as the Krank's to our neighbors. It's not like the HOA would be coming after us for "lack of holiday spirit". But no, Matt fell to the pressure of the others in our neighborhood and put the damn lights up. So I have to admit they look pretty good. (even if I would have never mixed colored and white lights together, but hey he did them so whatever) The only thing that stinks is that we can't get the very top of the house because we don't have a ladder that reaches the top peaks. But oh well. It still looks nice anyways.