We like Orange!

Welcome to our home.  Take a look around.  The house was built in 1980 and is a fairly open floor plan on three levels.  This is the main floor which has the foyer, living, dining, bathroom and kitchen.  We removed a lot of carpet and some very dark and dated terra cotta floor tiles and replaced them with travertine (including on all of the stairs) and added wood floors in the living and dining rooms.  We opted for a color palette of orange and gray with accents of brown and teal.  It is always a work in progress and just last week we found a milkglass orange lamp from Pottery Barn on clearance!  Lucky day since we had been looking for one for some time.  I also framed two of my prints from my Etsy shop, Pictorialboom and hung them in the dining room.  We built the wooden stairway railing ourselves because the existing one was pretty hideous and part of it was removed before we moved in and nowhere to be found.  I know orange is not a color for everyone, but it is both warm and cozy as well as energizing and inspiring.  I hope you enjoyed the tour.

The fireplace...

Our house was built in 1980 which is both good and bad depending on how you look at it.  There are some great angles in the house which make it an interesting place to live.  It is also very dated looking, so we are slowly giving the place a new face!  The fireplace is a perfect example.  When we bought the house, it's  drywall surround and mantel were painted a dark chocolate brown and it had the expected ceramic fake logs.  We painted it a color called "pumpkin spice" to appease us until we could really tear into the thing and give it a proper overhaul.  When we finally did, we chose to sheath the entire surface with an Italian porcelain tile that looks like long strips of wood including a stylized but stylish and subtle wood-grain.  We went more modern and dumped the mantel entirely and just love the clean look of it.  The fake logs were banished and we said "hello" to shiny and reflective glass pieces made just for fireplaces.  The light is amazing when the fire is lit!