As you know we moved back in out home

, we are so happy to be home! The morning before we 'officially' moved into our home (again) I snapped some pictures to share our home with prior to moving in. Our living room opens to our newly painted cheery shade of

chartreuse front door

. I'm so in love with this color, its such a fun color next to our grey house.

Here's a view of our living room looking in from our dining room area.

Our new wide doorway between our living room and dining / kitchen area really help our home feel so much more open and spacious. One of the best decisions we made during the rebuilding our our home was to make the doorway extra large. Beyond our dining room and kitchen is our new laundry room addition. More details about our laundry room in below.

Here's a glimpse of our kitchen, its still in need of some finishing touches, but I'll get to all that in a later post along with more pictures. I can tell you this, I'm blown away in love with our kitchen and could not be happier! It's truly my mini dream kitchen and I love the space!

Here's a better glimpse of our new laundry room space. I plan on using this space as a laundry & mudroom combination. I'm so happy we went a french door with glass panes instead of going with a full door, it really lets so much light in and gives the appearance of a much larger space.

For flooring in our laundry room, we went with wood look tile, it looks really seamless with our hardwood floors.

Bam! Another pop of color is awaits when you open the door to our back patio. I'm so thrilled to have access from the inside of our house to our back yard. Before we were only able to access our backyard though a side gate, though the garage or Avery's room [sliding glass doors, but we didn't use the doors] I'm super happy that now when we have guests over they have go though our laundry / mudroom verses walking though a hot garage [huge plus] I have big plans for this little space.

View of our front door looking in from the hallway.

Glimpse of Tabari's bedroom, he loves his over-sized light fixture. He's really excited about his bedroom and can't wait to put is personal stamp on it.

Avery's bedroom, we replaced the slding glass door with twin windows, they let so much light into his bedroom. He already loves looking outside while playing in his bedroom.

Our main bathroom is so much bigger and brighter, more details to come on this space along we details of my plan to upgrade our basic 'off the shelf' vanity. It's going to look super upgraded once I'm done!

I shared

our master bedroom

a few weeks back, here's one more reminder our the space prior to moving in.

Now that we are all moved into our home, I'm starting to get everything organized and my ideas for our home more settled. I'm not planning on focusing on one room until its done, but to tackle projects on the list of my priority. So they'll be lots of in progress posts of our home, DIY projects along with before and after posts of a variety of projects I'm working on along various everyday happenings around our house [ trying our new recipes, organizing etc]

I hope you all enjoyed the tour of our house, there's so much more to come!

A few weeks ago, I shared our

color inspiration

for our new front door. Our old front door was a classic red, called

Posh Red from Valspar

. While we loved our old front door color, we decided it was time to change it up with a new color. With our new house color, I thought a shade of aqua or chartreuse would work well with our

newly painted deeper grey house

. I gathered all my paint swatches we were considering and tape them to the front door.

We looked at the various colors from all angles, seeing how well they went with our grey house, white trim and red brick. I was having a super hard time narrowing colors down and asked for help from my

Instragram friends

, which gave me so much great feedback! Follow me

here

on Instragram. To my surprise Hasani loved the very first color and thought it was the perfect shade of our front door right off the bat.

I on the other hand wanted to slowly narrow it down to the top to colors we loved the best.I secretly loved the chartreuse shades, but was so nervous it would look too loud & neon once the door was painted out. Totally not the look I wanted for our front door. I snapped a few pictures of the final two colors, and got mixed reviews from my some family. My Dad

hated

the color and begged us to go with red front door like we had before. My sister surprised me, just like Hasani and loved the first chartreuse color for our front door. It shocked me, because you may remember she

hated the color

too just like me Dad. In the end we narrowed it down to an aqua blue shade and shade of chartreuse.

Before I share our freshly painted front door

, lets step back in time a little bit at remind you what our house looking like a year ago around this time pre-house fire. Our former red door, looked so bright and cheery with our light grey shaker style siding (I still miss you front door)

Our house now, with new our new siding and craftsman style front door. We loved all the natural light our old door provided and fell hard for this beauty knowing it would look amazing with our new siding and let lots of light in while still be semi-private thanks to the step up into our house. Truth be told,

I was getting smitten with the unfinished

wood, but since our home gets a lot of morning and afternoon sun I know painting over staining it would be a better long term solution.

The color we decided to paint our front door was the color that made us most happy felt fresh and fun, was the pretty shade of green. It was also a color that sacred me, I know it sounds silly, but I stepped out of my 'color comfort zone' and I'm so happy! Our front door was painted Antiquity by Sherwin Williams. We are absolutely

in love with the shade its a pretty vibrant color and looks amazing when you drive by the house (which I did a few times) and as you walk up our walkway. In the shade the color is more intense in a pretty yellowly green way and not in your face neon way. Here's our house before the front door was painted. I was getting smitten with the unfinished

wood, but since our home gets a lot of morning and afternoon sun I know painting over staining it would be a better long term solution.

Our unfinished wood door open to the our living room, before the trim was finished and the walls painted.

Our front door now, in the back ground is a glimpse of french door that leads to our new laundry room. I love how fun and bright our front door is. We decided to paint the inside of our front door white to match our interior trim.

I'm so happy we went with this bright cheery color. Our home rebuild project is finally winding down after almost a year in the making, looks like we'll be moving home in a few weeks and that's when the real fun begins and more DIY projects are in our future.

What do you think of our new front door color? What color is your front door painted, a classic shade or a bold color?

* Edit: The color aqua blue color we didn't use is called Drizzle by Sherwin Williams