April Showers

Well, as they say, April showers bring May flowers... except not to the Little Yellow House, 'cuz I haven't planted any flowers!!! I have big dreams for the future, though. I love plants and flowers of all kinds, and am planning to have a great big garden to grow my own food. (The garden may or may not happen this summer.) But I can't wait to do some of my own landscaping, with trees, flowers, fruits and vegetables, shrubs and bushes, flowerbeds... the whole shebang!

A lot of the existing trees in the yard have been cut down already, because they were dead, ugly, and/or in the power lines. Cutting down trees makes me sad, but in the long run it will improve the overall look of the place. I can't wait to start planting new things!!! I don't have a lot of gardening and landscaping expertise or knowledge (thankfully my family does!), but I know some of what I like!

What are your favorite kinds of flowers and bushes? Here are some of mine!

bushes

lilac

hydrangea (oak-leaf hydrangea is my favorite!)

rhododendron

peony

annuals

gerber daisy

perennials

iris

tulip

daffodil

crocus

poppy

Hello, yellow!

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Check out some of the lovely yellow photos from designer Anna Maria Horner's blog!

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Preserve the "Yellow"?

It's time to pick siding!

Currently the exterior of the Little Yellow House is... yellow. :) But it is in pretty bad shape, as was the rest of the house! My mom mailed me some samples so I could pick the new color.

Don't you just love the names they pick for these things? Cypress, granite gray, sterling gray, silver ash, heritage cream, autumn yellow...

I did like the gray shades -- apparently I have a thing for gray right now, because that's the carpet color I picked. Also it's much more fun to write it the British way, with an "e". Grey. See? It looks so much more elegant.

Anyway, I ended up going with autumn yellow! I mean, how can I keep calling it the Little Yellow House if it isn't yellow??? It's the shade on the far right in the photo, if you can't read the names. I took the picture outside to try and get the true color, but who knows how the computer monitors change these things...

The Little Yellow House lives on!

Living Room Color

I picked out a color for the living room! I knew I wanted a bright teal shade, but we picked out some tile for the entryway that was a dark green, so the matching was a bit tricky. The carpet in the whole house is a light gray, and later I'm hoping to add dark brown wood and purple accents. We're going with the left shade -- it's called Teal Bayou.