Style Evolution!

Color, Color, everywhere.  :)

I'm participating in the Style Evolution Link up party at Jenniferrizzo.com.  Party link HERE. I suggest you link up too!  I see a common thread with everyone's photos.   We've all lightened up a lot over the past few years.  :) 

My photos are a bit different when it comes to comparing.  Since we've moved houses, you're not going to be seeing the same spaces and the way they've changed as my tastes have changed.  However, we still have a lot of the same furniture, and you'll be able to see how I've adapted our look, despite keeping many of our larger pieces.

Let's begin, shall we?

This was the kitchen of our first home.  We (okay, I) was so happy to choose colors for the first time, and we went really bold in most of the rooms.  The result was dark, but this was around 5 years ago, and darker was in and bold.  It did make it very cozy and part of me misses that house.

You can see peeks of the living room, facing the front of the house (it was a classic shotgun layout), and you can also see peeks of my exposed brick on the wall.  Oh yeah.  Remember when that was really in?

The other side of the kitchen.. with a better view of that painted brick.

Our RED living room.   See how I carried that green from the kitchen into the livingroom via curtains.  Oh yeah.  Decorating genius I was.  :)  haha.

Our furniture was big.  Our furniture was Brown.  Honestly, it had to be.  We had SO much color on the walls, that we had to have neutral furniture so we wouldn't go crazy.

Recognize the couch and the ottomans?  We still have them.  We just bought a new white slip for the couch.

The photos I have on this computer are limited, but here is a peek at my youngest son's (youngest at the time) room.  Once again, I insisted on painting things on the wall everywhere.  However, I pride myself now that we had chalkboard walls before chalkboard walls were cool.  haha.   In hindsight, I do think they may have made the house hard to sell.  When you skim coat the wall flat before you paint, and liquid nails/nail trim to the wall, it becomes semi-permanent. 

We had another large one in our only eating area, attached the kitchen.  Not a direct shot, but this one shows a peek of that chalkboard.

Like a lot of people at the time, we were really into our grape/wine theme/Tuscan look.

Lots of red, green, and gold.

Our bedroom went through several phases, and thankfully I don't have photos of most of it.  haha.  We painted it a deep brown when we first moved in, then I added stripes, then we painted it out neutral.  The neutral was really my favorite look for the room, and led us to paint the house we're in now more of a lighter shade.

Here is the way it looked right before we moved.  This is definitely a sign showing my style was changing.

Loved those curtains.

Our bathroom then:

Very theme-y.

Actually, our whole house was pretty theme-y.  Wine/grapes.  Tuscan.  Vintage Yellow Guest bath (no pic), Paris master bath. Firetruck nursery, log cabin bedroom.. which you can see a tiny peek of here.

I won't go too in depth with my style now, because most of you are familiar.

Here are just a few photos of our home now.  Once again, notice a lot of the main furniture pieces are the same, yet the look is completely different.

This already looks different, but we'll go with this photo.

See a blue trend here?  We had no blue at our old house.  :)

The boys share a room here and while we still have a theme for their room, it's done only with things that can be easily changed.  Although, who are we kidding?  We all know I'd repaint anyway if we changed the room.  Most likely, :).

Thanks for dropping by!

:)  Courtney