Welcome to Our Cafe

It all started when Ari said it would be fun to move in downstairs with Xanthe.  Scott moved all her furniture out, including the light switch covers.  Yep, it was time to repaint.  The walls were pretty hashed, and we all needed a change.  Since Coco had bought so many cute accents for the red-black-and white Paris room, we kept the black and white and painted the shutters yellow so we could use all the same things.  I mused over colors for a few days, trying to get excited about grey.  Grey is hard; I didn't want blue, pink or purple undertones, and I didn't want to go too brown.  I think we found two colors, a light one for me and a dark one for Scott, that are pretty true to black-grey, with just red and yellow oxide in the recipe.  I'm happy; it looks so tailored and sophisticated, the rest of our house just looks silly now.  (Uh oh!)

Now that the room is empty and adorable, everyone wants to move into it!  I still have a lot more ideas for the space, (songbirds...Holland...tulips...trees...bicycles...) but for now it's our spacious cafe.  It's so fun to hang out in a new, clean, empty space.  We just need a small fridge, a black love sac and a yellow couch.  Maybe Ari can move back in someday, but she's going to have to battle everyone else for the honor.

So for the summer, we have a new hangout.  Come on over to our cafe!  This morning, we're serving bread and hot chocolate...just like in Holland.  I'm still thinking about that theme...