beware: cat on face

Our little home is finally coming together. Actually it's pretty much finished. Just need a couple things and then it will be completely finished {for now. is it ever really finished?}

This entry will be all about our home; it's one of those necessary "talk about your home, show pictures once you move away so the family and friends can check out your new dig" posts.

The kitchen is amazing for an apartment. Or really, its just plain amazing for any home. We hope one day our house's kitchen will look similar. Layne loved the fact that it had a great big island to cook and bake on. Kyle loved the fact that Layne had a place so she would bake.

we are totally obsessed with these bar stools. saw some similar

from WestElm we wanted, but didn't have all the dough

to spend on them. so we kept searchin', and we finally got lucky with these.

bar area.

amazing painting by Haley, Layne's cousin, to remind

us Tulsa is Home, and always will be.

instead of a man room, Kyle got a man area. this is the bar

cabinet Layne's parent's made by restoring an old record cabinet.

joe put in all the shelves, wine glass and wine bottle holders.

works great! {it's truly not as purple and pink as it looks.

it's much more of a purplish-grey and pinky-red-orange. got it?}

dining area.

these are old handkerchiefs mostly from Layne's grandma,

great and great grandma. she saw a similar idea on the amazing pinterest

and thought it would be a cool wall piece. it was a biznatch to hang up. long story.

living room. mix and match furniture and styles. totally us.

that's the ottoman we DIY-ed in the previous post.

not too shabby with all our other furniture.

other side of the living room or, aka, the mirrored wall.

once we get curtains it will be finished. for now.

Our guest room/office/studio/craft room has the Travel theme {trying to fit all of our stuff in a two bedroom apartment was a true challenge. so when you come visit {and you will}, sorry that you stay in a room full of random things. hopefully when we move back, we'll get a place with more rooms so we can have a craft room and music studio and then also a guest room andoffice. dang, just realized we will obviously need a 7 bedroom house.} We decided to bring home a cool painting or map of a place we visit when we go on a vacation over seas. We started this on our honeymoon and then also got some from on a cruise we went on this past summer with Kyle's parents. Our favorite place that we've been to is London and we have an amazing map of Old London and an awesome painting of Big Ben that we need to get frames for, then we are going to put them above the bed. They are obviously not in this picture so when we do find frames in the right size and put them up we'll put a finished picture up. Sooo, soon there wont be a huge space above the bed. Also, we still need curtains, which Layne is going to make {will be a post later on, we're sure}.

guest room. hi Zoe. and hi blatantly blank wall.

painting of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona and

maps from Naples and Cinque Terre.

Our master bedroom is definitely mixed and match of styles. It's still a work in progress, but we guess the whole apartment is. We also still need... whadaya know... curtains. And to hang up some pictures, but mostly its finished. Layne and her mom painted the stripes, which brings in some texture. It was going to be chevron striped, but they figured too much work for only a place to live for a little bit. The regular stripes still give us what we wanted. We may actually change it, perhaps to just grey stripes instead of navy. Not as nautical looking.

diy project Layne made last summer.

the best way to start each morning reading this.

Char loves her dog bed....

but so does Zoe.

And now for one of the best parts about our apartment: our amazing balcony. It's huge, and Charlie and Zoe love it {it's nice not having to worry about Zoe running off out in the 'hood. she can't really go anywhere seeing as we are not on the ground floor.}

our courtyard. we grill out there and just hang.

we want to get one of those seemingly comfy outdoor

couches so we can drink coffee and read.

So that's our home. Obviously there are bathrooms, a laundry room, closets, storage closet, water heater closet, miscellaneous plumbing areas, linen closets, and pantry. Sorry there are no pics of those important spaces, but we're still working on decorating them...and it's becoming a long post.

Catchya skeezers. Getcha butt down here and come stay a while at the Culhane B&B. Honestly, we will give you a bed and a breakfast. But beware, you will have a cat sleep on your face and one incredibly adoring aussie following you around.