Pictures of the new place

Well, despite having been here for a month (or because we've been here for a month...), I haven't been able to take many pictures of the new place. It's been exciting to start putting a home together, trying to make base housing look like 'home', finding places for all our stuff, deciding what furniture is necessary and what furniture is 'nice to have'.

One of the first things I decided I wanted to do when we arrived was to paint. I chose a nice light linen color for the 'majority' and a light robin's egg blue as an accent color. These colors go spiffingly well with our general decor and with our comforter set. According to a book I was perusing through recently, it's important to buy all furniture/decor that will go together when you're in the military because you can be sure that eventually, it will all end up mixing together. SO, apparently linen, taupe, robin's egg blue, and dark wood is our basic decorating scheme.

Along those lines, we've purchased couch, arm chair, and dining room chair covers to disguise base furniture in linen and taupe. They are quite lovely, although we haven't quite figured out how to make the covers stay in place sufficiently. I'm debating taking pins and pinning them in place on the cushions... If anyone has any better ideas, feel free to let me know!

While I had such wonderful intentions of painting as soon as we arrived, thus far I have only completed painting the kitchen and one wall of the dining/living area. Both of these projects were using the robin's egg blue that I am such a fan of. The plan is to paint the other three walls of the dining/living area in a light linen color, then paint the bedroom as well. We'll see how that goes... Anyhow, here's the kitchen and dining room:


Clearly I cleaned up for you prior to taking these pictures ;) (just joking - I promise it gets cleaner than this...).


We also have a lovely view from our front door - we can see the Ferris wheel in American Village across the way from us. At night it changes colors :D Apparently it takes 15 minutes to make one revolution. I suppose it's meant to be romantic...














We also have absolutely gorgeous sunsets here occasionally. This picture was taken this evening, capturing the gorgeous fall sunset. The weather here has been lovely - in the 70's almost every day. While the rain sometimes gets in the way of plans, it usually isn't too bad. I suggest if you're planning on visiting, you make plans for the fall!