{"id":2465,"date":"2017-04-26T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/havealittlefaithblog.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2017-04-25T22:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:09:28","slug":"the-itchy-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/havealittlefaithblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/the-itchy-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Itchy House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you believe it’s already the end of April and next week it’ll be May already? Just where has this spring gone? I can almost see the end of the school year fast approaching and that wonderful season of summer almost here. I’m super excited for next month because I have been working on a whole new series on one of my favorite topics — Mason Jars!\u00a0Every week in May I will be showcasing a new project featuring mason jars and I hope you’ll love them as much as I do.<\/p>\n

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This post is a tricky one to write. For me, it’s tricky because I want to be honest with my readers, but yet, I’m a little embarrassed to let you all in on a little secret….my house is starting to itch.<\/p>\n

You know that expression referred to as the 7-year itch? Usually it refers to 7 years into a relationship when you start to get the “itch” to move on. It was even made into a movie in 1955 by the same name starring Marilyn Monroe – the one where her infamous wind-blown white skirt made its first debut.<\/p>\n

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But in my case, this 7 year itch is related to my house. The one in which we’ve now been living in for 7 years, going on 8.<\/p>\n

I remember when we first built this house, I was head over heels in love with it. We had a 2 year old, I was pregnant with our second child and I had more square footage than I knew what to do with. Fast forward to today and we’ve got a bit of a different story. Either my house is shrinking or I’ve just got a rather endless amount of stuff finding its way through the front door.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, there’s not a day that goes by where I don’t thank God above for the roof over my head and the blessing that our home truly is. This is not a matter of gratefulness. This is a matter of itch. An itch that I haven’t quite figured out how to scratch just yet.<\/p>\n

I’m not certain if it’s an itch that’s telling me it’s time to pack up and move to a new house….or just an itch telling me to pack up some STUFF and move IT outta here!! Or it could be an itch telling me to totally start re-thinking the spaces in my home and how I’ve been using them.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty good at doing that actually. Several of the rooms in our home have “functioned” as more than one purpose over the years. An office that used to be a playroom, a playroom that used to be a dining room, a rec room that used to be a yucky basement. But there’s really only so much room-shifting you can do in a home before you realize you just can’t do much more than meets the eye.<\/p>\n

But in the meantime, I’ve often found that if I can’t re-invent the wheel, I can still re-design it. And this is another area I tend to excel in. Most of the rooms in my house have been painted more than one color over the years.<\/p>\n

When we first built our home, every single room in the entire house was white. Stark builder-grade white. It literally was screaming for some color! Like a blank canvas beckoning to the brush.<\/p>\n

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Back then I really loved warm tones. I painted our dining room a dark burgundy red, our den a warm Arizona rust, and our master bathroom brown. Yup. You read that right, brown.<\/p>\n

Through the years those rooms – and those colors – have all changed…except for that master bathroom. Why did I keep the brown around for so long? Beats me. But trust me, its been long overdue for a change.<\/p>\n

When the itch starts to itch, you gotta scratch it. My hubby and I decided it was time. Our master bedroom and bathroom are some of the last rooms in our home of 7 years that have yet to be redone. And they just got scratched big time.<\/p>\n

I’m excited to show you the end result, but it’s still currently a work in progress. Actual it’s more like a tornado disaster in progress. I will sleep a whole lot better at night when this project is finished. And we’re almost there. Can’t wait to show you the progress in before and after pictures!<\/p>\n

Until then, I will leave you with this quote from one of my favorite bloggers, Melissa Michaels, “A well-loved home will always be a bit of a beautiful mess.” I just recently finished reading her book, Love the Home You Have,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which I would highly recommend if you are prone to an itchy house like mine. I loved taking her 31-day Love Your Home Challenge which is included at the end of the book. It really inspired me.<\/p>\n

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