Loving...

I've heard many designers say that if you LOVE something, you should use it in your home because you will never get sick of it like we do trends. Especially true for favorite colors. When I had my first apartment it was all gray. Gray walls, tile, counters, carpet. I'd like to say the complex was ahead of the trend but they weren't, just cheap... I actually made that space feel beautiful and homey with my favorite color, purple. I love purple. All shades of purple.

When I moved in with my husband (then bf) I knew he wasn't going to be on board with the purple scheme invading HIS space. So I moved in and I moved on. In our home that I've been continuously changing and working on for the past 8 years, I have incorporated a lot of colors I adore but I left out my favorite one, PURPLE!

Today while browsing World Market for a couple pieces of furniture I desperately need, I came across this. My pulse rate went up and I knew it was love at first sight. Not only do these have purple but there are many other colors to work with including the biggest one I'm trying to match! (A crazy mix of peacock and denim blue). The problem is at about $35 each I need over $200 worth :( Hubby won't be too happy about that considering he just adviced me of our credit card bill after school shopping for Reagan. Ooops! Well, here we go again with the whole "wants vs. needs" debate. I will get those someday and then the whole house will magically come together in decorated harmony. LOL!

Daughter's Room Inspiration

Before posting pictures of how her room is starting to look, I thought I should probably add some inspirational imagines first, it will help keep me on track :) I did post about putting a tree in her room here.


By the way, I am totally a click and save kind of chick, I get so excited when I browse and I always forget to document where a picture originated so if at anytime in any post you see a picture of yours or one that you know where it came from, let me know and I will add the source immediately. Sorry!

Daughter's Room Makeover (Part 1)

A while back I started working on Reagan's room. The walls were a neutral brown and it was used as a room for guests until she was born. I didn't bother with nursery decor because I figured she wouldn't be spending much time in there since she was a micro-preemie and was with me most of the time. When she was about 4 years old I decided it was time to give her a more girly space. She is now 5 1/2 and I'm still working on it... Sorry baby girl!

Here is the room before I started working on it and a couple pieces of furniture that have also had makeovers in the process which I will post about soon...

View looking into the room from the hall. All along I have wanted the bed to the main focus when you look into the room. I wanted to position it below the window and make the window and bed one big pretty focal point.

This wall now has the beginnings of a faux tree made of corkboard and paper.

Buffet Before and After

My latest B&A! I am quite surprised at how quickly I completed this project. I bought the buffet about a month ago and it just waited until I made the space available in my kitchen for it but I knew right where it was going to go the minute I spotted it on Craigslist.

We are in the process of redoing our kitchen to fit our style. Currently, our house is full of builder standards and builder upgrades (what a joke). I don't have any pictures of it right now but when we moved in to our house we had linoleum flooring and the small kitchen had a HUGE island in the middle that was basically "in the middle" of everything. I know a lot of people love that, but for us it was clutter. A HUGE piece of clutter.

We removed that and then we had this random cabinet next to our fridge. We didn't get the upper cabinets with it, just the base. That's builders for ya. So we knew all along we wanted to do something different in our kitchen/dining area but we weren't sure what. Once we took out the island, the random cabinet made no sense at all. It looked terrible. We took it out and went with a piece of furniture instead. I love the direction we're going in now!

After

Before


The "fitting". I had to see it in the space to decide what color to paint it.

Our kitchen after we took out the existing cabinet.

What we started with.

*** I should note that the house is FAR from complete, for example, the cabinets you see in the background will soon be white with black countertops. So don't judge anything how you see it because chances are, I think its just as tacky as you do and its scheduled for removal :)***