The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Flu

Our house is currently plagued by flu 

 during a season in which all mankind seems to be in acquaintance.

It started with the kids

because all sickness and germs begin with them and their inability to not touch,

and has moved on to Hubs 

who was up all night retching and hunched over the toilet bowl.

My today will be about blankets and movies and low key hang time

 while zoning out to 'The Fantastic Mr. Fox',

which has become our favorite comfort movie during veg fests.

Side note:

I follow a funny being on Tumblr called kanyewesanderson
who wittingly combines the

lyrics of Kanye West songs to Wes Anderson movie stills.

If you are a fan of the two which I am very much,

it's a must see here.

Benjamin Moore Hale Navy

Hubs spent the last two days painting the family room and kitchen.

It looks crazy good.

We decided to paint the doors and surround trim the same navy as the walls.

I wish I had the words to describe how much I love it.

While attending Abigail Ahern's masterclass this summer 

the ideas that stayed with me most were

1. Go to the dark side with paint

2.  Paint walls, doors and moulding the same color

When everything is painted the same color,
the stuff you purposefully put in your home is pushed to the front--

furniture, art, books, rugs.

All the doors and trim in my house are painted white but not for long.

Why would I want the first thing people see be the doors?

Look at the art!  

I carried it home from trips abroad.

Look at the books!

Every museum I've ever visited has a book in the shelves.

Look at the furniture!

That was my great grandparents.

Don't look at the doors. They builder grade and they ugly.

A round of applause needs to be given to BM Hale Navy.

It envelopes you and its cozy and its exactly what I was hoping for.

Home

Are rooms ever really finished?  

Life {like people} is constantly moving and changing and evolving.  

Our house is going through a metamorphosis.  

The baby phase of child rearing is ending. Toys no longer dominate every room.  

I can begin to relay, through the interior of our home, how we are as a family--

traditional, modern, casual, diverse, traveled, well loved.  

These are pictures of the family room. 

It's a work in progress. 

Still needing a floor rug, wall art, table accessorizing.

 My desk, which needs serious accessorizing.

 Dizzy Gillespie, aka Diz, aka DJ Wizard

Hall bath in high gloss black.