A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
Are you yearning to transform your bedroom into a haven of beauty and serenity? Imagine the allure of two carefully chosen colors gracing your bedroom walls , seamlessly blending to create a harmonious ambiance. Welcome to a world where color combinations transcend ordinary walls , and each brushstroke evokes tranquility and style. In this exploration […]
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
Discover 37 creative and affordable ideas on how to decorate a little girls bedroom on a budget. From focal points to play areas, our guide offers inspiration for a magical space that's both budget-friendly and stylish.
I stumbled upon an ApartmentTherapy blog post which features wainscoting to liven up an otherwise “boring” living room wall. It’s a good look! But my question was more is this an isolated situation or wainscoting back. So I googled some and found that indeed it is on trend. I remember finding a list of on […]
Once upon a time ... there lived a little girl with long, wavy locks tied-up with ribbons and sweet eyes as green as a woodland forest. She spent her days in an assortment of ways; from playing house with her dolls and caring for her baby brother to picnicking with her momma and painting & crafting to her heart's content. This little girl was blessed with a large family who all loved her deeply. Each summer, she would travel with her father and step-mother to an enchanted place called Kiawah Island, where the sun glitters upon the waves, sea trinkets wash ashore and nature - both green and wild - all reside in splendor. It was while she was building sandcastles and savoring ice cream cones that her momma decided to work on a surprise for her little girl's return. Within her bedroom, pencil lines were drawn and paint buckets were stacked ... all to reflect the scenery of how her momma's days appeared since her little girl graced her life 7 years before. Her days seemed to hold sunshine that actually smiled down upon her, warming her spirit when she watched her daughter play. Her happiness soared through the clouds and danced upon spring trees, budding with the new life that was brought into their family with the birth of her second child, her son - making her daughter a Big Sister. A role by which she will mature to protect and guide her little brother, just as the trees in the forest do for its furry and feathered friends. In evening hours, as the sun settles in for the night and casts its deepening shades of fuchsia and orchid to the sky, her momma says her prayers for her children under starry skies twinkling their star dust and the Man in the Moon winking his wishes for sweet dreams. As the years passed, the little girl, as all little girls do, began to put aside her dolls for new found interests ... cheerleading, music, teen heartthrobs (most notably, JB!) and her passion for C-O-L-O-U-R (Thanks to the girlish boutiques of Justice and the like ... Oh, dreadful me....). So, with great pain and heartache, her momma answered her little girl's request ... ... and said "goodbye" to the days of dolls and princesses, and "hello" to vibrant colour and Justin Bieber. ("sniff, sniff") Alas ... to her momma's relief, she grew tired of the ever present "GLOW" of her bedroom. Perhaps, it was the nearly 2 months that she spent in rainbow hues healing from surgery that changed her palette (there is always a silver lining, isn't there??). So, a promise was made between the two ... A super tidy room in exchange for a FINAL room redo. And, they hugged on it. Soon, the time had come upon the now teenage girl with long wavy tresses (sometimes flatted with an iron!), whose green eyes still pulled on her momma's heartstrings, to head down to Kiawah on her much anticipated vacation. Paint colours were agreed upon... Second-hand furniture was purchased (Craigslist is her momma's close friend :)... And, her dear Pappy jumped on board to make their vision a reality! The idea? Vintage with an old Hollywood/Traveling flare. Is that such a thing? First thing first was to close up a shared doorway with her brother's room. The baby brother had grown into an adorable 7-year old that did almost ANYTHING to gain his big sister's attention ... which usually resulted in her yelling down the stairs, "Mom! Nathan's in my room again!" ("sigh") This was an exciting task for her momma, as she learned how to build a wall with POWER TOOLS :) During which time, her delightful son would advise his Pappy that "I don't think that such a good idea, Pap. Maybe you should do that." HUMPH! No faith!! Now, what their momma didn't take into account was that she now had TWO bedrooms that needed her attention ... "Oh, Heavens." But, one at a time, she will prevail. It was unnerving though, as this remodel had trickled its chaos throughout her house ... leaving most rooms in disarray .. But, day by day ... progress was slowly moving across the room ... Her momma applied wallpaper primer to the walls marked for beadboard panels ... Panels of WALLPAPER, that is!! A beautiful invention!! Especially when you are working with an older home with walls that perhaps were square at one time, but were now a fighting mess with a ruled leveler! Her momma learned from the family's wallpaper expert, Miss Grammy, how to hang wallpaper like a pro! To better secure the beadboard design to the swirled walls, they applied wallpaper paste to the wall while the paper was "booking" (a term learned to mean wet wallpaper folded paste side together to activate the paste! Easy-peasy!) Then, Pappy - on one of the hottest and muggiest days - cut and mounted the trim work throughout the room. Then, Daddy - after a 12-hour shift - caulked and puttied any necessary crevices to ensure a seamless finish. This room redo was unlike any other, as it brought in such help from family, that it would never have been accomplished without their generosity. And, finally ... on the eve of the daughter's return ... her momma put the finishing touches to the room and hoped - so greatly - that her little girl (as daughters always are in their momma eyes) would be overjoyed with all their work ... And, as her story unfolds, her momma hopes that she will find her very own space to be a special haven to lie her head upon her pillow and dream of all the wonderment that life has in store for her. Sleep well ... dream big ... and never lose the wistful enchantment of "chasing the clouds from the sky" or the evening magic of walking beneath "branches lit up by the moon." I love you, baby girl... (next to unfold ... my little guy's room! The ideas are still churning :) It's hard to explain how a few precious things Seem to follow throughout all our lives After all's said and done I was watching my son Sleeping there with my bear by his side So I tucked him in, I kissed him and as I was going I swear that the old bear whispered, "Boy, welcome home"- lyrics of "Return to Pooh's Corner", Kenny Loggins
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
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I have been busy sewing with the newest range of Tilda fabrics and I am totally smitten! Cabbage Rose and Memory Lane are just the loveliest floral prints t ...
Yesterday we gave College Girl's Dining Room some color and style! It seemed like an instant makeover there but really prep had been going on off-site for quite some time :) I draped my kitchen in plastic and got to work week before last. It is so rainy that tarping the kitchen is about the only option for getting anything done. My parents bought CG a chest from IKEA. It matches two that we 'ombre-d" for her new bedroom. More on that later but there are pics on the FB page. This gives her 3 identical sturdy wood chests and a lot of versatility for future moves (6 already in her college career!!) They can be used together for a long wall of storage, as bedside tables, as a TV stand or in the Dining Room like we did here. And we are all about furniture that offers storage. She is missing the big walk in closet and home that we called "The Carrie Bradshaw closet" :) Two super cute Pottery Barn brackets that were bought for $5.00 at a consignment sale a year ago got a coat of SW Anjou Pear. They were the same thing but in 2 different finishes so primer and paint unified them. Three coats of SW Lagoon went on the chest after a coat of primer. This is the yummiest turquoise color ever. I'm painting something this color for myself ASAP. A sample of this color painted the chest with some to spare. Makes it very economical to purchase lots of colors. Terrible iphone pic but I bought some nicer bronze-ish knobs for the top drawer and sprayed (oil rubbed bronze) the wooden IKEA knobs the same color for the other two drawers. jazzed it up a bit and the knobs were 50% off at Hob Lob. So two cool knobs for $5.00. You can find some great knobs there and at World market for good prices. I took two canvases that I had and brushed on all the colors that we were using in the other elements of the gallery wall and created two contemporary artworks to mix in with other more traditional elements. The Dining Room set is a great antique set from an estate sale that one of the roommates mom bought. The unchangeable aspects of the rental tend to be more contemporary so we are trying to blend the two looks together. After a coat of varnish on top they didn't look half bad :) After much painting and putting framed artwork together I loaded up my car and headed to College Girl's place. I had a bag of tools, furniture and artwork. I joked on IG that my car had art and soul yesterday - sorry. Bad pun. But my Kia Soul was full to the top! After years of driving much larger cars it still amazes me what I get in this car!! And this was the sky on the way. Yikes. We only move in the rain. (Monsoons, actually!) See previous posts on this subject :) Let the install begin. BTW, you have to be very flexible to hang those PB brackets. Cute but a pain. We put all the components on the table and started holding up things, discussing it and then arranging. I had thought some things would work in certain places but we ended up tweaking things as they went up. If it's not a gallery wall you are going to add to over time then it's nice to have a few extra items to try and possibly eliminate or move. It looks a lot different on a wall than it does laid out on a table or the floor. Interesting but fun process. In progress... I gathered up frames I had and bought a few at Goodwill for less than $2.00. Some I painted. I added quotes and scrapbook paper backing in the colors that we were pulling from the inspiration fabric I printed clip art straight off the computer onto photo paper- gives it a crisper look of a better piece of "art"/ Of course owls had to be in there somewhere - all 3 girls are Chi O's. Trendy glass dishes from the dollar bins at Michael's. Just add a Command Strip. Mirror from IKEA. They are less than 3 dollars - frame, mirror and all ready to hang. I already had that. Another quote in a frame I had, a copper pineapple mold from Goodwill that I sprayed coral, a basket I sprayed green, a paper mache ampersand I sprayed gold, and I printed all 3 of their monograms and put in frames to add to the wall. It is the South and they are sorority girls. And when they move on they can take the monogram picture with them as a keepsake. My favorite candles come from Bath and Body Works in those great glass containers. I save them and reuse as votive holders so we put those on the PB shelves. We recovered the chair seats in this trendy multi colored medallion fabric. It really updated the set and tied everything together. The fabric is an outdoor fabric so it should hold up well in a college household with lots of people in and out. It was on sale for $7.99 a yard. Two yards did the trick with some left over for another project. This is not a good picture. I need to try again with a real camera :) On a sunny day. We shopped the Grands basement when we visited a couple of weeks ago and chose this very nice brass lamp for the makeover. I bought the shade at World Market last week for 75% off. The inside was metallic silver embossed paper and I hit it with a coat of Krylon Metallic gold and it is one classy looking lamp. Added a tray, napkin holder and an owl to the top of the chest and it is finished! Great improvement. College Girl did a great job deciding what and where to hang items on the gallery wall. We had fun working on this and then finished off the day with some pizza with our fav Kappa Sig and a sorority sister. College towns have the best pizza. College Girl said it looks "homey now" and she was "obsessed" with the SW Lagoon paint color that I chose. Can't do anything about the light fixture #rentalprobs And we need some curtains on the adjacent wall. Another day.
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A little bit cozy for winter, and a little bit fresh as we look towards spring: join me for a tour of my February living and dining areas!
Mother's Day is just two short weeks away! Don't fret! I have you covered! Today I am sharing gift ideas full of coastal Maine style!
The coquette aesthetic is really trending right now and we're sharing how to incorporate coquette aesthetic design in a girl's bedroom!
My sister and I shared a room when we were young girls and I wanted pale blue paint and she wanted lavender on the walls so my mom painted the walls a compr ...
