Interior decorating

This is definitely too early to be thinking about this stuff, but I've been contemplating colours today for the rooms in the house.

I already have our bedroom / bath picked out. We always promised ourselves that when we moved into a house we would decorate our bedroom first, since it always seems so 'blah' in the apartments. So, our bedroom will be a raspberry colour with lots of white accents ... hmmm ... sounds like the outside of the house. Oh well!

Peter is in the process of making us a four-poster bed with one of the other men from our church (this was started before we realized we were going to build - Peter's not really that much of a glutton for punishment!). The whole master bath will be white (with little splashes of raspberry colour ...), and we bought a tile that is mostly white with little silver patterns running through it for the floor of the bathroom and around the tub. So, I think I can do that room pretty easily.

I'm having the hardest time deciding on a colour for the kitchen. I had originally thought a sage green colour, but now I'm thinking that it may not look great with the cupboards (which will be a cherry stain). I'm not really sure about that yet, and since this is our first attempt at painting / decorating an entire house, suggestions are welcome! The tiles are a very neutral colour, so they will match pretty much anything.

The living room I'm thinking of doing in that mustard yellow colour, but again, that's subject to change! It definitely wouldn't match our current furniture, but I'm ok with that, as the furniture is almost 20 years old. Some day we'll be able to get new stuff to match the decor of the house!

Anyway, I'll be enlisting the help of my interior design-savvy friends and family members to try and make wise choices on decorating schemes. Once everything's painted we're going to focus on one room at a time until they're all decorated the way we like - starting with the bedroom of course. So - if anyone comes for a visit within the first little while after we move in - you'll have to come see the bedroom - it may be the only room in the house that's coordinated!

Anyway, back to the real world of studding walls for tonight! Hopefully we can get completely finished upstairs tonight. Peter met with the electrician at the house today, so I'll find out how that went tonight as well.