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It’s almost Fall!
The kids have gone back to school, the mornings are cooler, I am starting to feel fall in the air! I love love love the fall. It is hands down my favorite season. Part of that has to do with the colors, fall foliage, and of course the pumpkins. I love decorating my home for fall. I am already thinking about projects I can do, and places that I want to add a little fall touch in my home. Last year we just finished our home right in time for fall. I just put out the things I had stored, and called it good. This year I want to be a little…
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Think outside the box
When I decorate a space and start investing in accessories for that space I try to find things that are a little unique, maybe something that everyone might not have. This fun lantern is an example of that. When I was on the hunt to find some lighting for my family room I quickly became discouraged. Everything looked the same to me, same lamp, same shade, same same same. It was so boring to me. That is when I saw this fun lantern. It was intended to hold a candle, but we saw it a different way. When I picked it up at the store, my hubby said that would…
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Fun, easy, and totally no sew (or barely sew) window treatments
I love dressing up my windows. It just adds that finishing touch that every room needs. However, I am not a fan of large nineties window treatments. There is too much fabric which creates dust, and quite frankly, reminds me of shoulder pads. When I was thinking about the windows in my rooms, I wanted to add just the right touch without taking away from the window trim we added. I came up with a fun solution one day while shopping at Target. They had napkins on clearance that were just the right color for the room I was doing. Napkins were the perfect solution that I needed to add some…
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Mixing it up with pattern
Mixing patterns can be tricky. When I talk to my friends about decorating their homes, how I mix up the patterns in my room is always the question that gets asked. I love pattern. I think I have decorating ADD because I get tired of rooms and decor pretty quickly. One way I have found that works for me to stay happy with a room longer, is to use patterns. My first rule is to keep the bigger pieces solid. This allows you to have fun with the rugs, blankets, pillows, chairs, and art. Next decide on a color pallette. In my room the main colors are gray and white.…
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Vintage love
The new year has been busy around these parts. Christmas was great…winter was long!! Spring is upon us, and I feel like refreshing, cleaning, and organizing all my rooms. We finished our house in the fall, so I used all my fall décor to decorate the new rooms. Then I did the same thing at Christmas time. By the time I took down all my Christmas décor, I realized that I didn’t have anything to fill up my new spaces. So I of course had to do a little shopping. I had donated most of my old décor to the DI, so I was starting over. I knew I wanted…
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Christmas in the music room
Christmas decor in a music room is so fitting. One of my favorite things is Christmas music. Either singing it, playing it, or listening to it. It was so fun adding some Christmas touches to this room. I added some figures from our villages to the piano and my old Santa next to the piano on the floor. I have had an old suitcase we found in the attic of our other house. I put that on the floor, added a tree, and had the perfect spot for the other village. I always put the nativity in the music room. I feel the Christmas spirit the strongest when I surround myself…
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Christmas in the Dining room
The dining room had to have been one of my favorite rooms to decorate this season. I painted the room red, and it is the perfect backdrop for Christmas. I added a simple centerpiece for the dining room table from things I had hanging around the house. I found these candle sticks a few years back in the garden department at Fred Meyer. They have become one of my favorite accessories to display candles and other things. I had a glass conch which I filled with red ornaments from the dollar store, and put my large green apple for a fun pop of green. In my hutch I added some…
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Christmas in my Family room and Kitchen
I love December. I love Christmas. I love everything about it. The music, the lights, the spirit of giving….everything. I love putting up Christmas decor in my home for the holidays. Decorations we have collected over the years mean a lot to me and have special memories, so it is fun to get them out and remember every year. This year was especially fun for us because I have a beautiful new backdrop to display Christmas around. Here is the way my home looks this year in my family room and kitchen. I wouldn’t say I was a trendy Christmas decorator. The things I have, the ornaments I display have…
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finished mudroom
Since I have owned my first home, I have dreamed of having a mud room. A place to put coats, backpacks, boots, shoes….you name it. Somewhere to neatly put away all the stuff! When we first walked into this home, I was re arranging spaces in my head. If I bought this house, how could I get myself a mud room and separate laundry room. When you first walked into my home there was a large laundry room right off of the back door. There was a spot for a washer and dryer and a desk. No where for shoes, coats, backpacks..you know, all the stuff that comes through the…
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fun kitchen additions
Since I have posted last…a long long time ago…. I have added a few decorative touches to my kitchen. I got some fun vintage canvases from Amazon that I hung on either side of the window, then found a fun bottle top clock that matched the style of the prints to go on the other wall. I had my son cut me some vinyl, my Grandma’s brownie recipe, to put on the opposite wall. I have the walls done, now I am on to window treatments.
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Kitchen tour
So our kitchen is finally finished and usable. I am loving the results, and I can’t wait to share the pictures. Here what our kitchen looked like before the remodel. If there were one adjective to describe it, it would be brown. So very very brown. The first time we walked through this house I wanted to change everything. The color, the cabinets, the lay out…..you name it, I wanted it gone. So after a few years, and a lot of planning, we got to work and created my “dream” kitchen. Here is the result. We decided to go with white cabinets and dark granite on the top of them.…
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Adding a brick wall
The kitchen is defiantly coming along. I am still waiting on counter tops to come, but on a whole it is usable and I am loving it! The wall color I chose is fairly light and the cabinets are white, so I knew I needed a punch of something in the room to add some fun interest. I love the look of exposed brick, and I knew that was what I wanted a touch of in my kitchen. We have added a little brick in the house already in the stair landing, and I loved how that turned out. I decided to do a little more and use the…
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Blue
I spent last weekend and the rest of this week painting my kitchen island. Most of the kitchen is white, but I wanted a pop of color on the kitchen island in the nook area. I decided to go with the denim color I used in my front room. We have the same style of cabinets built for the island, they just came unfinished and ready to paint. We wanted to add some legs to add support to the granite and give the island character. So we built a skirt and attached legs to the sides to make it feel more like a piece of furniture. It was so fun…
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We have Cabinets!
Finally, our cabinets are here. It is funny, I have a friend at work who, when ever she sees me asks me if my cabinets are here, and all summer I have had to tell her no. Not anymore! Yay. They came from Barker Cabinets in Portland Oregon about a week or so ago. They are solid wood, and beautifully made. They ship them unassembled to your home, so we had a lot of building ahead of us. They really weren’t that bad to put together. Defiantly the fun part of the project. They come with screws that work and don’t strip, so it is fast and easy to do. We…
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Destruction and construction
The kitchen is coming along. We no longer have cabinets or a sink, and the pantry is framed, dry walled, and has a fun new door. We are going to install the floor this week, and the whole kitchen will be ready for the cabinets. I can hardly wait!
