paint.

so as i said, i was at the lake this weekend. and all i did was paint.

i touched up all the white hand rails on the huge top deck.

i finished painting a new piece of furniture for our tv in the kitchen. i'll share that later.

i touched up a closet where we removed a shelf.

my dad finished painting the upstairs deck this same royal blue color as the picture above. this is a photo of the lower deck (the only photo i took all weekend). but i also painted the dingy white swing a cool shade of minty-light blue, behr teal ice to be exact.

everything looks so fresh and ready for the start of summer......

but we also picked something else up while we were down there.

my dog got fleas.

i'm freaking out.

i've vacuumed my whole house. doing lots of laundry. we bathed her last night at midnight with flea shampoo. poor thing.

she even had her flea and tick medicine on but i don't think it's doing/did its j-o-b.

i have been hearing this summer is going to be awful with all sorts of bugs because of our mild winter, but now i believe it.

ick.

so gross.

so sorry i don't have any more fun pictures.

the fleas ate them.

JILL

  

kate.

and maybe my favorite look of hers so far.

jenny packham. teal. lace.

that back is amazing.

absolutely.

JILL

if a dress could kill...

this one would do the job.

i can't decide if its the ammmazing back and color of this dress...

or it just being on a model with perfect porcelain skin and rockin red hair?

but it's an outstanding dress.

i found in on the sidetab of a website for an ideeli ad...

i belong to ideeli, and granted i don't visit everyday, but i missed this sale!!

i tried googling around to find who makes it but i'm strapped for time and couldn't find it in my preliminary searches...

anyone know?

spill it.

JILL

teal front door

from wah wah....

to ta da!!



i got this b from here.

i didn't have a great spot on the door to put the 4 brass #'s of my address like i had wanted. but i did really want some more brass on there other than the kicker and the door knob... so i found this! 

comes in all shapes, sizes, finishes and fonts for any front door out there.

the brass kickplate hails from the home depot.

and just because i overshare...

here is some of what i used as inspiration when coming up with the door color, and the whole house paint scheme we plan to go with when it happens:

(lamer collections)

 i'm in love with the way it looks with gold and brass.

scrumptious.

and neutrals.

 via apartment therapy

via h&m.

it's such a friendly color. and it's not the same teal we knew in the late 80's and early 90's. with neutrals like crisp white, black, navy, gold, leopard-- it looks current.

i still smile when i walk up to my new door.

and those are the best kind of diy improvements...

not expensive in the slightest but packs a HUGE punch.

happy monday.

JILL

come n knock on my door....

because now it's pretty.

before:

it was not so much.

i am embarressed to say that it took me over 2 years to paint my front door.

that is the first impression of my home and it was so blaaaah.

i blogged about options here because i was really going to do it then, but it took me until now to settle on a color.

shame on me.

here were/are my issues:

we're tackling the outside of our house in phases. first phase was to spruce up our front door.

so.....

we removed that heavy aluminum (useless) storm door and stuck it on the curb for craigslist... gone in 20 minutes, no joke.

now just the door was exposed. i was pleased because the solid wood door actually has a really pretty shape. i just didn't love the flesh color it was painted, and it was flat paint so it scuffed, and grass clippings would even get blown into it and they would stick!

behr aqua waters, in exterior high gloss to the rescue!

like i said, the house is in phases. but our goal is to paint the entire exterior. so in order to pick out a door color, i wanted to pick out the whole house scheme.

we love ourselves some white painted brick... so we're either going to paint the house white or lime it.

but either way, it'll be white.

then we'll paint the trim a mushroomy-brown-grey color and our shutters are getting a new coat of dark navy.... with a bright teal door. and brass accents to polish it all off.

this is all i have to share with you at the moment.

i actually finished the door! and added some new brass accessories to her but after removing the old storm door, we need to repaint the trim on the outside.

and i haven't done that yet.

i'll share the finished product on thursday :)

JILL



a particularly wonderful combo....

via martha stewart

via bright.bazaar

elle, hope you're enjoying argentina :)

(so jealous.)

JILL