Showing posts with label Interior Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Interior Design. 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....

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.

Monday, August 1, 2011

The Finished Design

The before:

The during:
The "during" included 3 full days of painting, 4 trips to the paint store, (one of which I ran in 5 minutes after closing on Saturday and begged them to mix up one more gallon for me because I was in the middle of a complete disaster and I absolutely could NOT wait until they opened again on Monday), SIX coats of paint on the entertainment center, FOUR coats of paint on the wall, one wrong paint color, 2 ruined shirts, 1 ruined pair of shorts, and miraculously NO CRYING and NO SWEARING!!!


A few accessories:
Again, I just wanted to get this project DONE over the weekend, so I ran to Target at 10:00 p.m. Saturday night and loaded my cart of with accessories I thought might look good.









  The finished design:
I am so happy with the way it turned out.



Friday, July 29, 2011

Disaster!


I am in the middle of a DISASTER!!!
With no end in sight!!!

I get these crazy urges for a project,
I drop everything,
I even know it's not likely to turn out how I imagine it will.

I have a history.

I called Jeff en route to the paint store and told him to talk me out of it.
He didn't.

I want to paint my entertainment center off-white and the accent wall behind it a different color (still undecided).

Before:
(In case you were wondering, I was watching my dance recital DVD.)




All primed:

Two coats later and
I HATE THE COLOR!!!!
It's not off-white.
It's freaking electric-blue/gray/white!!!!!!


Not only that, but it looks SOOOO amatuer.
I have no idea what I'm doing.

I have to start over.
9 1/2 hours and I have to start over tomorrow.
And I haven't even begun the accent wall.

This is all Jeff's fault.