Showing posts with label For the home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For the home. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Living Room Makeover


Before
 


 During....
I sold ALL my furniture and moved my piano downstairs ($238 for piano movers--ouch!)
We ripped out the baseboard and put wainscoting all around the room.

New furnitureChair: Osmond Design


Coffee Table: West Elm 


Settee and side tables: Osmond Design 


Chaise and side table: Osmond Design


A few of my favorite accessories: Osmond and Tai Pan


Bookcase: Osmond Design

 
...and VOILA!
(I am still searching for the perfect wall hanging to go over the couch.)

 The kids know this is MY room.
I spend my mornings in here, reading scriptures, listening to  news radio (nerd alert), feeding the baby, reading, paying bills, instgrammimg, etc.  You can't see in this picture but i have the perfect view of the mountains.
 


Saturday, June 30, 2012

A Mini-Makeover

I love my kitchen. 
I designed it to be white, light, and airy.
But there was one thing in my kitchen/living area that didn't go with the decor:
My 12-year-old kitchen table.
It went perfectly with the decor in my last house--dark, black, gold-ish.



I've been saving some money and decided Mother's Day was the perfect excuse to finally splurge.

I went to Four Chairs Furniture.  I've never been there before, but I will be a customer for life.
I got to completely design my entire table.

 I picked a "Riverwash" table top and ivory table legs.
For the side-chairs, I picked the design and the paint color.  It's hard to tell in the picture but it's a super subtle gray/green/turquoise/ivory.  The official name was "Silver Sage."
The table came with two leaves and I'm able to seat up to ten people.


For the end chairs I picked a formal shape but very casual burlap slipcover--trying to go for the "Shabby-Chic" look.



 So much better with my kitchen, don't you think?


And perfect with my family room and the aqua accent wall.
The only bad thing about custom designing furniture is the WAIT.
I am NOT a patient person and that two weeks was interminable!
Totally worth it, though.

 There's something about getting something new for my house, however small, that motivates me to clean, clean, clean.  I've spent the last few days cleaning out drawers, organizing cupboards, and *gasp* mopping the floor.
Now THAT hasn't happened in awhile.




Remember those job charts I was going to make for my kids?
Yeah, well, that turned into me giving them a random, verbal list each morning according to how tired I was/am and how much of the mess there was/is.
It's working, though, so, whatever....

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Kids Bathroom Makeover

In the last month we have had three rounds of strep and antibiotics and one round of stomach flu.
I was sick to death of germs being spread around so I did something about it.

I went to Target.
Naturally.

I bought the kids their own separate cups with their own toothpaste and toothbrushes.

 I turned the kids' bathroom from this...

And this...

And this...

To this!
Notice the disposable towels on the rack.
No more wiping mouths and hands with the same hand towel.
Instead, the kids overflow the garbage cans with the disposable towels, especially Sam who, in three weeks hasn't gotten over the novelty of pulling them out one by one.
I don't care.
No one has been sick since I re-did the bathroom.
(Knock on wood)

And this.
Of course, I just HAD to get 2 new polka dot rugs and a shower curtain and 6 new striped bath and hand towels, PLUS two fishy hand towels purely for decoration to make the bathroom fully germ-free, right? 
Right.


Sunday, January 15, 2012

Lucy's Room Makeover

I need to state, for the record, that this was the most difficult post I've ever done!
Not because the amount of work that went into cleaning and organizing Goo's room.  Noooo!
It was trying to load and then find these d@&! pictures on our new computer.
There were some serious tears.  Nothing, NOTHING frustrates me more than learning new computer stuff.  I just don't get it.  I don't get the files and the folders and the drives......

Anyway, here are the pictures.  I didn't remember to take a picture until I was almost done cleaning out and putting things into bags.  This picture doesn't do Lucy's hoarding saving abilities justice.



New bedding, new furniture arrangement, a few new accessories, and voila!
(I am so so glad Lulu still loves pink and purple.  I know she will outgrow that in a few years.  In the meantime, I'm squeezing out every bit of pink and purple that I can.)


I bought a rug and bean bag and made a reading corner for her.



I organized her hutch and put all her American Girl accessories in the little, pink boxes from Target.




 My next project....
 *Sigh*
It never ends.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

PCATCOOTKRACABAGOA!


My January just got a lot busier.
I love Christmas, but I love, LOVE putting all the Christmas stuff away and getting things back in order.
I also love the new year, new beginnings, and new projects.
I went to Target and got all these containers to start what I'm calling
Project-clean-all-the-crap-out-of-the-kids'-rooms-and-closets-and-bathrooms-and-get-organized-already!
or
PCATCOOTKRACABAGOA!




Wish me luck!