Mood boards

We are renovating our home and as we get closer to painting the walls and decorating, I have been working on some mood boards to help us pull each room together.

I have in mind an outdoor space for each room. The living room is the glade. We will have a floral rug and plants in the windows. I am hoping for a leather couch (for wear-and-tear) and a large map table type coffee table to store our collection of posters. The walls will be stone colored and the ceiling a lighter stone color.

The stone colored walls will continue into the dining room. This room will be like a fairy house found in a pine forest.

Our kitchen will be a light and bright meadow. There will be more plants in here. The cabinets and the backsplash tile will be white. The counters will be dark; we had considered wood but I think we’ll go with a dark stone instead. Instead of a table, we’ll have a workstation with stools.

The bedroom will be our secret cave. The walls will be dark stone and the trim even darker. The ceiling will be a soft muslin color and the rug and the linens will be exotic and colorful like a stash of treasure.

Aerogarden

I received an Aerogarden as an early Mother’s Day present and I’m surprisingly pleased with it. It’s a tiny hydroponic garden meant for your kitchen counter and it comes with a set of herb seeds. The seeds are wrapped up in special sponges and set into plastic plugs and the plugs fit into holes in the Aerogarden. A pump inside the basin directs water through the plugs. All you need to do is keep the basin filled with water and add a couple of nutrition tablets to the water every two weeks. Then, when the herbs have grown, harvest them once a week to keep them full and growing.

It’s been fun watching the seedlings sprout.