House Pictures Part 1- Livingroom, Kitchen, and Porch

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  Sorry it has taken so long to get them up but I wanted to be a little further along in the decorating process before I put up photos. We still have a LONG way to go as you may notice in some of the photos. We are still purchasing art work and knick knacks for the house. 

I am going to break up these posts into two parts. This one will be- Living room, Kitchen and porch photos. Part 2 will be our Master Bedroom and Bathroom. After that I will be working on a closet tour. 

If you followed during the building of our house you know that I was going for a southern coastal, beach-y style. I think I have been able to accomplish that so far but it is still a work in progress. I am still trying to figure out what my house decorating style is but it is fun trying new things in the house. As my MIL likes to say - "Everything is returnable" So why not experiment a little. 

Above is the "study" which turned into Shane's man cave. We are going to make one of the spare bedrooms into an office for now. 

Light fixture above the entry way. I love the birdcage look. 

This painting is SO special! It was a wedding present from my grandfather and it was painted by my deceased grandmother. She painted this many many years ago and my grandfather was so kind to gift it to us. The CRAZY part about it is he chose this photo without ever looking at photos of the house or knowing the decorating style that we decided on. This painting was meant to be in our home and it is priceless to me. 

Do I need to say it? But I am obsessed, over the moon in LOVE with my kitchen! #dreamcometrue 

Bar area

Exposed double farm sink {I had to fight for this one!} 

The rest of the photos are from our summer kitchen and porch area. The BEST thing about our porch is that it has retractable screens. If you know anything about summers in Florida you know that the bugs are a nightmare so we just could not NOT have screens. But I wanted to be able to have useable entertainment space and the retractable screens give me that. If we are just sitting outside for dinner we leave the screens down but if we are hanging out by the pool we often have the screens up. Its the best of both worlds! 

Thank you so much everyone for reading! 

xo, Alina

Building a House AKA THE MOST STRESSFUL THING IN THE WORLD!

As many of you know from some previous posts my fiancé and I are building a house in Naples. I honestly had NO IDEA what I was getting myself into when we embarked on this journey. It is a million times harder than planning a wedding. I have been so decisive about what I do and don't want for the wedding but with the house one day I like something and 3 days later I have changed it to something else. Shane has been on internship ALL summer and will be back at school this fall so its has been REALLY hard doing this on my own. Thank god for my future mother-in-law who has been AMAZING during this entire process. She literally knows everything about building and decorating houses and without her I would be lost and probably crying my eyes out after every appointment. After some long hours and looking at tons of magazines and trips back and forth to here and there I think we have some final FINAL decisions on things. Just wanted to share some pictures of things for the house and vent a little. As hard as this all has been when you find that one piece of tile that matches everything else and makes it all work it is 100% worth it!

So here we goooo

This is what CHAOS looks like. Carpet, wood, tile, paint = OVERLOAD

Ok for whatever reason the floors look different than they do in person but trust me they are to die for!!! These floors will be throughout almost the entire house except in the bedrooms and bathrooms. We found these floors at Southwest floor design in Naples. 

y'all have NOOOO idea how much work we put into this guest suite. I picked out the tile floors, shower walls, and shower floors for our master bathroom in like 10 minutes it was a piece of cake. But this guest suite has been so hard! This bathroom will also be the powder bath for people at the house to use and for anytime we have guests staying over and I really wanted the shower accent to be very dramatic. I picked out the shower wall accent first and we picked everything else for the bathroom around that piece. That is dedication! We went through 5-8 different pieces of tile flooring trying to find something that would match the shower accent since it will also be the shower walls. Finally today my FMIL found the tile and it was so meant to be I was doing cartwheels. Not really but I was sooooo happy!

Below I put all the pieces identifications haha 

The shower floors for the guest suite is a tumbled marble and it is amaze balls {side note my momma said amaze balls the other day.. I died} and we are using it in the master shower as well for the floors. 

All the tile for the house we are getting from DeMarco's in Naples. 

Now onto the "kids" bathrooms. This kind of just fell together and I love it. Agreeable grey is the possible cabinet color and with the shower accent piece and the tile floors/shower walls I think it will be gender neutral but still coastal. 

Do NOT even ask me about paint colors. All I know is I want the house to have varying shades of blue and turquoise. Why are there so many darn shades of the same color. Its exhausting. All of this is really. 

Shane and I are so blessed and so lucky to be able to build a home together don't get me wrong but all of this + planning a wedding + looking a for a job + a part time job + an internship I feel like I have barely any time to do anything but those things. Okay I guess that is enough complaining for one blog post haha. Let me know what y'all think! :) 

 xo, Alina