Dreaming of home ownership - living rooms

I'm all about comfort and live-ability.

Inspiration images found here.

We'll keep our two current couches for a while because they're in fine shape, but eventually I'd love a sectional like this one. I love couches with a chaise - so comfy!

We have this coffee table

And these matching end tables

So we might get this coordinating media stand,

but we're waiting on that purchase. It's possible that we'll have a fireplace and mount our flat screen above it. We'll see. It often seems too high for me, but in some rooms that's what works best.



As for specifics about the actual room... I can't think of anything that's a must-have besides just enough space! Carpet or wood doesn't matter much to me and a fireplace would be a plus but not necessary at all.

Dreaming of home ownership - bathrooms

Our bathroom situation right now is... not the best. For starters, we have only one. In our next house, I'd love to have at least 1.5 bathrooms. James says we need two but I've convinced him to look at houses with 1.5 if they're in ideal neighborhoods.

In addition to having only one bathroom, it's a small one at that. There's room for approximately one body in there, which is why I do my makeup in the hallway, with the mirror I mounted there. A master bath with two sinks would be fantastic.

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I forgot to say in my kitchen post how much I love mosaic tile. I actually imagine it more as a kitchen backsplash

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but I'll put it out there now that I'd love it in a shower as well!

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A nice shower head is a must too. I've replaced the standard shower in almost every rental I've had - although 5'9" isn't that tall, it seems like showers are made for people who are 5'2"... I can't stand having to bend down to wash my hair!

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I admit that this detail is kind of silly, but I like it okay?! We've stayed at several hotels that have this curved shower curtain rod. It feels like you have so much room when you're showering, and I want one :)

My cosmetics storage is a bit of a cluster currently because we have a pedestal sink. It's really cute but the only storage in the bathroom is the small medicine cabinet. Drawers = a dream come true.

I like calm, relaxing paint colors like blue and gray.

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Dreaming of home ownership - bedrooms

I like our current bedroom a lot. It's nice and big, and has two separate closets for James and me (mine's a little bigger :) I love the size and the neutral tan wall color too. In the future, I'd love to have a walk-in closet.

And nice matching furniture (I say the next bed we get should be a king!). Now let's not kid ourselves by putting up a photo of fancy schmancy thousands of dollar furniture when I know well that I will never spend that kind of money on anything! I've heard good reviews of this line of dressers from Ikea and that works for me!

We already have nice side tables that James got me for Christmas a few years ago, so I want to match those (they're dark brown).

I'd also love to find and renovate an older piece like this this beauty by the amazing John and Sherry at YoungHouseLove. They bought it like this

And made it into this! Love them!

  

Our bedding is kind of worn out, but I'm waiting to move to buy a new set. Hey, maybe we'll decide to put our bed in the new guest room and need a king for ours - then the bedding would be a different size!

I'm loving dark browns for bedding, but of course the one we registered for is no longer online so I can't show you :(

This one from Bed Bath & Beyond is so pretty right?

Overall I love the feel of these pretty rooms (source)

Dreaming of home ownership - kitchens

Since we're now starting the house hunting process, I want to share some of the details I'd like to find in our next home, or in some cases my dream home (some details are small, some aren't!).

Today... kitchens. I actually really like our current kitchen. It's big enough - although I wouldn't mind a little additional counter space, I'm pretty happy with the amount of cabinet storage available.

For a long timed I've dreamed of a kitchen with a nice apple green paint color.

We currently have linoleum floors in the kitchen. Please, anything but that! It's not even the way they look - it's SO hard to get sparkly clean no matter how hard you scrub it!

I have a magnetic knife rack from Ikea that I love, and that's definitely coming with us!

An under-cabinet wine rack was gifted to me at my bridal shower,

but it doesn't have the bottom part for the glasses, so I hope to complement it with a wine glass holder as well!

As for large details, I really want a kitchen island, but unfortunately most of the homes in our budget don't have them or room to add one.

Many of them also have old, dated cabinets that I'd love to paint a crisp white! I think white cabinets make a kitchen so bright and clean-looking.

A walk-in pantry would be fab... we have a small one currently and I'm hoping our next one will at least be comparable.

All photos from Yahoo images