Digital cameras have become increasingly popular and highly affordable. You don’t have to be a photographer to use one, they’re also pretty user friendly. Something some people don’t think of using the camera for is for the home. If you’ve ever seen a look you really liked you know that you try to keep it in your head until you can adapt it to use in your own home. Forget remembering, we’re human and our memories aren’t always clear. Just take a picture and you’ll have every detail. Then when you’re ready to design you’ll have a picture of your inspiration to work from.

Need an affordable and stylish storage option in your kitchen? Maybe in another room? Consider a bakers rack. I got one at Target a couple of years ago for the kitchen and love it. I love it so much, in fact, that I got a second one for the living room that is part of my work area. I also picked up a second smaller one for the dining room. My husband calls them bread racks, and teases me that one day he’s going to just fill them all with bread to shock me.

A while back our living room ceiling fan broke. I loved that fan, it had tiny lights in the top that worked as a nightlight and regular lights in the bottom. When it dies I went out and bought the exact same ceiling fan to replace it. My Dad installed it and guess what? It’s not the same, they changed it! It looks the same but they changed the actual lighting. The tiny night lights are still up top but they are now brighter than the regular lights on the bottom. The room looks dim and I hate it. I really want to replace it, and saw a couple of Minka Aire fans that might do the job nicely. The replacement won’t happen right away, we have a couple of other things that take financial priority over replacing a new light that we don’t like.

I found the type of window I’d like to put in my kitchen. Whether we ever get to remodel or not, we definitely will be replacing the window in our kitchen because it’s in sad shape. I found a beautiful garden kitchen window online and fell in love. I’m sure it isn’t the easiest thing to keep clean but I really like the way it looks. I have to start pricing.

I’ve always dreamed of living in a big house. I mean a really big house. Right now we live in a smallish to medium sized ranch. We do not have enough room. What I’d really like to do is remodel and add on. I’d like to add on a second floor, and move all bedrooms up there. I’d turn our bedroom into a small office. I’d turn CJ’s bedroom into a playroom. I’d change TJ’s bedroom into a combination pantry and storage area. I’d like to enlarge and enclose the back porch and turn it into a rec room, with a pool table, a pinball machine and a couple of game tables. I’d knock down the wall between the kitchen and the living room and make it one giant eat in kitchen. I can picture it all in my mind. It’s nice to dream, isn’t it?