The White House

Last May we bought a family membership to the Bronx Zoo which also allows you to visit the aquarium on Coney Island and the Central Park Zoo (CPZ).  We want to get the most from our pass so on Sunday we went to The Central Park Zoo.   It was a cool but sunny Spring day and the park was full of people out enjoying the day.  Flowers were starting to peak out of the group and Spring was in the air.

At the zoo our first stop was at the Snow Leopard exhibit.

Then on to see the polar bears.

The Zoo is on the southern end of Central Park and it is pretty amazing to look up and see that you\’re smack dab in the middle of NYC.  

The zoo also has a small children\’s zoo which was alot of fun for Quinn.

Both the CPZ and the Children\’s Zoo were small enough that we could navigate them easily on the same day although Quinn crashed on the way back to the car.

When Don and I first saw our house in NJ we loved almost everything about it.  We seemed to share a similar contemporary style with the previous owners so we immediately felt comfortable in our house.  One thing I was never happy with was the mustard color of the master bedroom and the avocado color in the master bath.  In the bath even the ceiling was painted green so it had a dark, cave-like quality to it.  I finally got around to making some changes and am pretty happy with the results.

Here\’s our bedroom before.

And here is the after.

I really love the softer, quieter colors.  I was inspired by the colors in the duvet cover from West Elm.  From there I picked the paint color.  The art work above the bed is from a Seattle artist who I found on etsy.com.  The art is a photograph of a rocky beach, Golden Gardens, in Seattle.   I love the non-matching lucite lamps from Target.  I also found the curtains at Target — I only had to go to 4 Target stores to find 3 sets.

In the first picture you can see a peak in to the bathroom.  It\’s painted a grayish blue to accent the colors in the bedroom.  And there you have it.  Our bedroom makeover.

Sorry for the poor quality photo.  Does anyone else see alot of Don in this photo?