My husband and I are having our house worked on. About 1/3 of it is being redone, and while I'm incredibly excited about it, there's one part that I absolutely hate.

This. Room. Is. Too. Big. I call it the extrovert room, and while it also encompasses the kitchen, it's just a monster of a room. And so to mollify me, I get to choose the colors. Sort of. Keeping others in mind, I chose three blues that looked fairly light. The fourth I was thinking would be the master bedroom color, but I think we're going with purple instead.

Obviously the house is in rough condition right now. So far two rooms (kitchen and the "smoking room" which was where the previous owners smoked cigarettes) and the previous front entry way have all been demolished to make space for a bathroom, laundry room, master bedroom and great room (combo of kitchen and living room). Luckily we have a beautiful table that can fit 16 people (literally) to fill the great room.

So there is the paint in the sun and in the light. The lightest blue is pretty close to grey, so I think that'll go on three of the four walls. One of the blues I think is too...Little boy colored, so that's out. I think the wall with the sliding doors will get the second darkest.

Luckily it doesn't all look like crap right now. The new front doors look phenomenal. Not a great shot because the outside looks bad since we're doing shingles on the front of the house.

And finally my favorite part of the house, the deck. It's finished, and it looks amazing. I think the glass panels really make it pop, because we live in such a nice area, you really don't want to see the deck. You want to see nature, damn it.

So that's the quick tour of the construction of my house. Maybe once it's finished I'll dislike that room less. Once it has kitcheny stuff, and comfy couches, and the built in book storage so that the room doesn't look and feel so much like a cave. Either way I'm grateful for the updates. There was no insulation before we started, and the walls were stripped to the studs to make way for it. Now it's nice and cool in there, on a 90 degree day like today.