Oh, Rachelle, I'm so sorry, after all your research and planning and bravery!! Well, there's is nothing wrong with cream, but I completely understand how you wanted to climb out of that box of one colored crayons, lol. It is what it is, I do hope that you'll be able to build your pergola and I also hope you can introduce a bit of color with your door, this color is from sherwin Williams, it's SW 6480 lagoon, it would be beautiful with a cream house color and a terracotta roof. Good luck, and I'd love to see your final result, please post a picture at the end of project. And I'm glad you're upbeat and looking at the "sunny side" :)

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I still want to kill my DH over the guest bathroom décor. I wanted an "Italian vampire raises from its tomb" theme: large black tiles for floor and some walls, the shower and rest of the walls in these superb handmade glazed Italian mosaic tiles I found, similar to this: I had my eyes on this black high-gloss bathroom vanity, with red toilet seat - it would've been glorious!! I paid for everything, came home excited with samples and... disaster: hubby went ...red, he called his brother and mother, even my sister, as reinforcements, and started the attack! Apparently, it was 'too scary', too much Dracula or kitschy brothel like (they couldn't decide and made me wonder how do they know what a brothel bathroom looks like), too "dark and gory" and they were all "genuinely horrified", as the guests would've been (in their opinion) ... boring people.... Anyway, I went back with hubby to the bathroom shop, to find "light and classic" and, as a joke, I showed him the 'swimming pool' glass mosaic - he liked it and, as they say, the rest is history. So now we have a nice, practical and totally boring guest bathroom, that apparently doesn't horrify the guests (just me!)

Thank you Minnie. Yes it is a beautiful house and we are very much in love. With dogs, 3 kids, pool etc, we've decided not to put down any rugs in summer. Maybe can in winter months. I love the way you have styled the first credenza with artworks and lamp. Your photoshop skill is better than mine! Plant in the corner is beautiful too. One lamp on each credenza makes the best sense -- I didn't even think of that. Terracotta head is not us but I'm hunting out beautiful pottery from this region so I will try and link the themes on each -- that is what you mean non? Merci!