Planning for our new house...

So we're getting closer and closer to our closing date. Though we still have the Co Op board interview to get through, and I know that technically its not ours yet, I can't refrain from planning out where the furniture might go, what items we'll need to purchase, and how I want the feel of our home to be. I'm in nesting mode big time! Here's some pics that I found that have great ideas I want to incorporate into our home...

I want to accent with color and leave the walls neutral. I love the brightly colored lining of this curtain with matching pillows! That will be perfect for the reading room! (We're going to be calling our living room the reading room because it has an entire wall of built in shelves.) I've also tossed around the idea of cutting the reading room in half with a curtain, as shown in this pic. Sometimes I love the idea and sometimes I think it would make the room too crowded.

for the dining room we have a few issues that need to be dealt with creatively. first of all, while there are lots of shelves in the kitchen, I know they will be filled with food and cookware so I need a place to nicely store my dining sets/ stemware etc. the current tenants have a hutch and i think I want one as well. If I can't find a hutch at a reasonable price then I want to build in some nice shelves.

I'm concerned with our lack of dining room chairs. We have a table that will work nicely in there, but no chairs. I'm excited to find a handful of mismatching chairs at local thrift shops to paint black, though, seeing this pic of the stackable chairs makes me think that might be a more viable option for us given our space constraints.

I've also been I want to really make use of the small bedroom closet, and I'm getting excited to organize it.

I'm also excited to decorate the now white and black bathroom. While we will leave it basically black and white, I'm excited to sprinkle in some bright yellows, reds, and blues to live it up...