Four natural details in your home

When I was outside trimming some branches I decided to take a photograph of the texture of the tree trunk in our front yard, it called my attention for some reason. Then I took a picture of the leaf of a plant that's in front of the house. I don't like this plant very much, but looking at it in detail I began to see its beauty. I also took a picture of the tree, the tall tree that covers the lawn with its leaves and makes me sweep for an hour (but still is a beautiful tree).

Now, I know that a fence is not a natural element, but is made out of wood. I love how some of the wood looks blue in the picture.

 

(Top left) The fence. (Top right) The plant.

(Bottom left) The tree trunk. (Bottom right) The tree.

These pictures are great inspiration for color, ideas and who knows, maybe one of this could be an artwork to hang in the living room.

So next time you're outside cleaning, gardening or just mowing your lawn take a moment to look around you and you might find beautiful details that maybe you never noticed, right in your back yard.

The laundry room sign

OK friends, today I spent a few hours cleaning that shelf above the washer and dryer. They were DIRTY!!!! Finally I finished that. Yesterday I designed a sign to hang on the wall behind the machines. I came up with this:

I like the fact that I made it myself and its original, but then, today looking at that wall, I realised that I won't be able to hang anything there. It seems that this wall suffered some water damage and is a little fragile. Oh brother! Thanks to one of my readers and best friends, Vanessa, who suggested the idea of using wall decals I finally have the solution!

The lame laundry

Doing laundry is NOT one of my favorite things, but somebody has to do it.

I do laundry in the garage, that's where the washer and dryer are located. As you can see int this picture, that spot is not very inspiring, actually is very depressing. There's poor lighting in the garage, it's dirty (when we moved we missed cleaning it) and there are a couple of things we still have to get rid of, like our old sectional (you can see a picture of it here).

So you can imagine how horrible that garage looks (I didn't put a picture of it because it was too embarrassing, however I put a picture of the laundry area which is embarrassing too).

These are simple and affordable changes I want to do in the laundry area: