Choosing a paint color for your walls isn't easy. There are just SO MANY options, and narrowing it down can be overwhelming and even a bit paralyzing. Somehow you have to pick just one, and have it not look like hot garbage on your wall.
So how do you do it? How do you choose a wall color for your interior? Like anything, if you break it down into baby steps, choosing a paint color isn't that scary or difficult.
HOW TO CHOOSE A WALL COLOR (and get it right the first time!)
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Modern Fireplace Inspiration and Tile Selection
We've talked about the fireplace before, and how I basically designed my entire house around this one photo...
I didn't want this home to have a wide open floor plan like my last house did, I was after something more compartmentalized and cozy. When I stumbled upon the above picture during a late night phone scrolling when I should be sleeping session, I knew instantly that plopping a double sided fireplace right in the middle of the house is how I wanted to accomplish that …
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Interior House Tour (Drywall Stage)
Ok, time to jump into the interior of this house, which I know is where we all want to be. This is Wildfire INTERIORS, after all. I'm not going to write posts about all the mechanicals (plumbing, electrical, HVAC, insulation) because it's boring and I want to get to the pretty stuff. Instead, I'm just going to show you a few pictures of the interior progress so far.
These are all of the kitchen, here is what it looked like at frame stage -
Here is the same view with the roof, siding, …
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Breeze Block Wall – Price, Process, and Photos
The exterior of the house is almost complete, and the very last piece of the puzzle is the breeze block wall! This is the part I've been the most excited about, since it's probably the most unique feature on the front elevation and really gives it that mid-century flair I'm after.
Before I show you pictures of it going up on my house, let me answer a few questions.
What is breeze block?
Breeze block is a decorative concrete block that was popular in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. …
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That one time my house got painted the wrong color
Instead of the usual intro paragraph, I'm just going to direct you to watch this video -
In case you can't watch the video or hate videos or whatever, here is what happened. I wanted a teal house and picked the color Sophisticated Teal by Behr for the exterior. I also chose the color Tricorn Black from Sherwin Williams for the trim color. Just the eaves and soffits, that's it. The window trim was supposed to be teal, same as the walls. So like, pretty much an entirely teal house.
The …
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6 Blue Exterior House Colors (and the Winner)
I love paint colors. I don't think anyone is surprised by that statement, but I thought I'd clarify just in case someone thought I was secretly really into monster trucks or something. I'm not. I think a large percentage of the population would rather claw their eyes out (or worse, talk about monster trucks) than read a blog about paint colors, but I'm not one of them. And I'm thinking, that if you are here reading this, you just might be right there with me. Either that or you are just here to …
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The Blog Post Where Framing Happens
You know what's insane? Framing a house. Because one day a pile of wood gets delivered...
And then like two days later, BOOM. House.
I don't know how they do it, but it's very satisfying. Especially when the resulting house looks exactly like the the one you designed. I know it's supposed to and all, but it's just so cool to see the thing you've created in your head come to life before your eyes.
Before we move on, here are some clips of the process …
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Mid-Century Modern Exterior Finishes
Alright, let's talk about what I have in mind for the outside of the house. Here is what the front elevation looks like on my blueprints....
And here is a mood board I put together of everything I'm planning for the exterior.
I would love to play it cool here and tell you that when I look at that picture I'm like "Yeah, that's nice...it will probably look good or whatever."
But honestly, when I look at that photo, I'm 100% this girl...
I …
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Concrete Slab Foundation; What are the Steps and Cost?
If this morning you woke up, rubbed the sleep out of your eyes, and thought to yourself "Self, you know what you should learn more about today? Foundations!" .....then holy crap do I have some amazing news for you. Today your knowledge-craving dreams are coming true and you get to fill your brain full of information about pouring a residential post tension concrete foundation on a sloped lot in South Central Texas. That's right...life is good and dreams do come true. Woohoo!
So let's jump …
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9 Mid Century Modern Homes that Inspired my Custom Build
If someone would have shown me the elevation to my house before I had dug into research and inspiration photos about mid century modern home design, I would have told them that it was the ugliest thing I'd ever seen. Well maybe not the ugliest (because there are some truly hideous homes out there), but the below elevation would absolutely not have been something I was excited about.
I mean...it looks flat. Boring. I love simple and clean rooflines, but this takes it to a whole new …
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Designing a (Mid Century) Modern Home; Part II
Welcome to part II of designing a modern home...which has now morphed into designing a mid-century modern home. At the end of the last post, I left you with my final floorplan sketch....the one, that after many other attempts, felt like "the one".
I send it off to the draftsman (again) and crossed my fingers that this one worked better than the last one. And...it did.
Ok, so let's walk through it. As a review, here was my list of wants for this house -
New house wants …
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Designing a Modern Home; Part I
Let's start at the beginning... the very beginning.
I'm Ashley. I like houses. I like designing them, decorating them, working on them, just looking at them, writing about them, all of it. I used to have a really nice house, but then I got divorced, sold it, and moved into a little apartment. And while I love apartment life for a multitude of reasons, I also have four sons that need space and I would like something more permanent.
So, I decided to design and build a house.
Why build a …
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hard is not the same as bad
I'm not quite sure how to come back to a blog after ghosting everyone for two years. I've spent a lot of time thinking about it, procrastinating, deciding not to come back, changing my mind, deciding to rebrand first, and then procrastinating some more. I'm really, really good at procrastinating. It's kinda like my superpower.
So what the hell happened?
Well...sometimes life gets messy.
That's not true...if you are alive and breathing then life will be messy. And mine...well, it's been …
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Breezeway Reveal – Our Quarantine Project
*Thank you to Article for providing the furniture to complete this makeover!
There are a lot of things I love about our house, but one of the biggest design successes is our breezeway. The breezeway is priceless...we hang out on it constantly; it's party central for our monthly potlucks, and it catches the breeze coming off the hill perfectly.
These pictures were taken a few years ago, right before we started our monthly potlucks. This is not what it looks like all the time... …
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Our Tiny Home Office Reveal!
So I finally have the office reveal post finished, but I can't just dive in and show you the finished product without addressing the elephant in the room. Ummm....what he heck is life these days? I feel like I'm living in a history book. My kids school is canceled, Adam is working from home, everything is closed, I can't see my friends or family, and I'm on week three (Four? Seventeen?) of being at home with my kids. You would think these circumstances would lead to me cranking out the projects …
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How to Build Thick Floating Shelves from Plywood
Alright everyone...if y'all are looking for a fun and entertaining blog post then you came to the wrong place! Today I'll be sharing a detailed tutorial for the floating shelves we have been installing all over the house, most recently in the office and bathrooms.
I love these shelves because they are simple, functional, and budget-friendly. The thickness is my favorite part...they look like they cost a lot of time and/or money, even though that isn't the case. They are made from plywood …
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Our Tiny Home Office – Part 1
Who's ready to dive into another room remodel? I know I am! This one should be super quick and satisfying too, since it's a teeny tiny room. Also, just to throw things off track right at the beginning of a post... I have no idea what to call what we do these days. We are not remodeling, since the house is new. And it's not a room makeover, since we are starting from scratch. Help me...words are hard.
ANYWAY, the room we are conquering next is our home office. I'm really excited about this …
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2019 Review and 2020 Goals
Hey everyone, happy 2020! So each new year I write a post about our house goals for the year and look back on how we did on the previous year's goals. I like having goals, lists, and always having something to work on...but I'm not that type A about it. For example, it's January 14th and I am just now thinking about this, haha. So let's jump in and see how we fared last year.
2019 House Goals - The Verdict
So How did we do on our 2019 house goals? Not great, honestly.....even worse if you …
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Christmas Bedroom Tour
Merry Christmas Eve! So I'm a few hours away from hosting our family Christmas, and while scrubbing all the things I usually don't scrub I realized I never posted about my Christmas bedroom decor. Fail, Ashley....fail. Anyway, let's get right to it, because this Christmas enchilada soup isn't going to make itself.
So if you have been around for a while then you have probably noticed I have never been into seasonal decorating. You would think I would love it, since....you know....I've been …
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Vertical Christmas Banner
Remember the good old days of Domestic Imperfection where I would do a mediocre craft project and post about it, crappy pictures and all? I miss that. So today we're going to get nostalgic and show you a super quick, super easy Christmas project, posted way too late in the season, using dark shadowy phone pictures. Get excited!
So here is what we are making today -
This project was actually 100% my husband’s idea. I told him I wanted to really decorate the bedroom for Christmas …
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Oil-based vs. water-based sealer – which to use and why
Imagine you spend forever sanding, priming, and painting a beautiful piece of furniture you found at a garage sale. It looks fantastic...you breathed new life into it like a freaking pro. Go you! The last step is to protect the paint so it looks this amazing forever. You grab a sealer from the hardware store without much thought...because sealer is sealer, right? Except it's not, and your entire project turns yellow and streaky, completely ruining it.
As you can see in the above photo, …
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