Wrong Day to Want to be a Canadian

but I so would love to be today...

I stumbled on to the following website for HGTV Canada... I would love to see this show/be on the show...

Colin & Justin's Home Heist

and the before and afters are just full of inspiration!  And today I need it.  After a marathon of Bug's Life yesterday (remember Emily is super sick - and this is the only way to keep her calm and reduce tears-  I am not a terrible terrible mother... just slightly not the greatest), today we have moved on to Lion King - and my heart has grown cold and numb to the ever predictable killing of of a parental figure that Disney has perfected... I don't even shed a tear...

So now on our fifth viewing I at least have some eye candy.  Some of it I totally love... Some I can honestly say I hate but there are some great arrangements and color combos that I would love to try, even though I know I would get vetoed right away by my better half...

I don't know how to steal (with credit of course) these images to pass along yet (maybe when the hubby comes home he can help me with that) but go check it out get inspired!

I am now convinced that I need to paint my piano... there is an image of a before and after piano dark to white...this might help my visually challenged husband come over to the "light" even though he has already said no...

Also, Col-bolt Blue - Royal Blue seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the home and it almost has me rethinking my green living room.  Bryan better get prepared for some more paint chips....

I am slightly in love with the darker blue - but can I pull it off? Can I convince the Hubby?  It is just paint after all - and with a few buckets of primer it too can disappear like it never happened... But just imagine it with my new/old/need to be re-upholstered couches ... I need to be brave!!!

 Disclaimer - not my couch - yet... but very close to what I want it to turn out to be - the chairs and love seat in the houndstooth bellow...

and then this zebra rug... It is the only way I think I can get this pattern into the living room without B freaking on me (sent him the link a few days ago and had to explain that he should view it as a neutral)

West Elm

And then I have been searching for a coffee table - and really haven't found a solution I absolutely adored unit I saw these ....

Yeah - in love.  At first I thought I would need an antique table to go with the couch but then - why should I try to be matchy matchy? And plus I think it would have killed all coolness I am trying to achieve with the new couches and paint...  and it isn't visually overwhelming which
I don't want... I want an open feel and think this is just the ticket!!!

Now I must return to reality and sing along with Simba, Pumba, and Timone.  YAY me.  Thank goodness B is on his way home :)