When I showed the foyer in our new house, a few of you noticed something familiar about it.  This slate tile is one of the original features I loved about this house.  (I also like the vintage lantern fixture in the foyer!) It looks familiar because the Montauk Blue slate tile I selected for the foyer in our MN house is basically a modern version of it.  I’ve always liked slate in foyers.  There is something very classic and stately about it.  The slate is a bit more green in the foyer in our new house and the grout lines are bigger, but they both have the same irregular pattern and definitely the same timeless feel. Even though I am going to remove the wallpaper and paint everything eventually, this foyer has great bones and really is beautifully finished.  The slate tile is a big part of that.  But the

That little guessing game we played yesterday was so fun!  And, what I enjoyed most about it, was hearing your thought process in the comments about why you thought I picked certain houses.  So many of you understood the tension I felt in deciding between some good options and hoping to pick the best.  Ultimately, we picked the home that was best for our life, which is how a home should be selected.  Not for pictures or decor, but for the life you want to live there.  And the decor will come. The house we bought is house number two, which so many of you guessed right.  It’s the brick rambler built in 1970. Even though we had a few historic homes as viable options, let me tell you why we selected the one we did. As we were casually looking at houses when Jeff was going through the interview