We built the house out of white cedar and it is a pretty typical log home look. It is, however the very essence of compromise. DH wanted a log cabin, very woodsey and rustic. I wanted a nice traditional, but modern "stick" home.

The inside walls here are sheetrock so I can paint them and change the colors on a whim. And the main decoratining theme is...color. Many times people have remarked that it doesn't look anything like they expected inside.

I have a large great room with a 17 foot ceiling. Three of the walls are exterior which are, of course, cedar. The fourth wall is really huge, 35 feet long and 17 tall. It is sage moss green. The curtains are a grapevine print, the upholstered furniture darker green. There are 6 large windows, icluding a 6 foot bay window (without a curtain) that has a collection of colored glass on the sill. There is a large black player piano (which unfortunately doesn't work) and two floor-to-ceiling bookcases. I have 10 big houseplants in there right now. The end tables are mission style oak. The only thing on the walls are a huge collection of family pictures, mostly candids, in a hodgepodge on frames, and a large oil portrait of my mom at age 5 which is quite casual considering.

The adjacent kitchen is egg-yolk yellow with bright blue Tuscan print curtains and an Italian tile backsplash. The floors in this part of the house are maple, but we still havn't sanded or sealed them, and they are looking pretty nasty. The appliances are white and cupboards oak.

The hallway is a light purpley-brownish called sea urchin, and it is empty right now.

The shower bathroom paint's name is water bubble, the floor is fake stone looking tile, the shower black and white tile. There is a watercolory tropical fish shower curtain.

My room is moss green and dusty blue with white accents and it is kinda Asian with some bamboo leaf lampshades and Indian sari inspired curtains. Master bath has a clawfoot tub, more fake stone tile, and the walls are the same color as the hallway. There is a really cool print curtain in there and the accents are brass.

The kids rooms are ticking blue with a map theme (DS13) purple-blue with a fairy there (DD4) and white, denim blue, and black (DS14).

There is no rhyme, reason, or style in here other than comfort (DH's ratty old recliner), practicality (bookshelves), or cheapness ($10 clawfoot tub that was a cattle watering tank in its former life). Actually all of it was cheap, but it still all comes together pretty well, is inviting, and I would not be too upset if most of it got broken, stained, whatever. We can really live in here.

If I won the lottery I would finish the floor, change all the carpeting in the bedrooms, get a funky big rug for the LR, put an island in the kitchen, and build a linen closet at the end of the hallway. I would also have a professional landscaper come and put in a couple more flower beds, a raised veggie garden, and some nice, big, trees.

Wow, I just read back over what I wrote, and did I ramble! Sorry!
-Jo