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

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Boy Nursery Inspiration

I've gotten some requests lately for a blog post on nursery inspiration so I was feeling motivated this morning & compiled some pics! These are not necessarily ideas that are going to end up in my nursery, just photos that I'm drawn to for one reason or another. Anyway, here they are!











Hopefully sometime soon I'll have pictures of my own nursery to show... Won't be as cute as these precious ones above, but I'm gonna do my best to try! :) 

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Living Room Inspiration

So we finally ordered some new couches & they should be arriving in a week or so... which means now I can't wait to fix up the living room and make it cuter, as its been buggggging me for a while. The couches will be a good start, seeing as our old couches were UGLY (i bought them at some point, I dont know why) and DISGUSTING (thanks to sweet little benson and his toy licking fetish). Beyond the couches, Im not sure exactly what I'm going to do, I just know I want it to be colorful and fun... not drab and kind of boring like it is now. So here are some pictures that have been inspiring me lately:








The pictures are kind of all over the place, but each photo has things I like and hope to somehow incorporate into our space... Can't wait to get started! Next up will be the nursery! :) 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Our Home: Master Bedroom Redo!

I redid our master bedroom a few months ago but never got a chance to post about it! Both Peter and I have pretty much despised our bedroom decor from day one.. it was just always the last thing to work on since we were really the only ones to spend time in there. I finally couldn't take it anymore though & decided one weekend that it was time for a fresh start... on a budget of course!

Here are some pics of our bedroom before:

And here is the after! We love it and actually enjoy being in there now! 
Quilt from Tuesday Morning. Two small pillows are new from West Elm. Rugs from Urban Outfitters (mine is teal chevron and his is light gray chevron). Lamp on the left from Marshalls. Lamp on the right from Target. My bedside table is the same as before, just with a new pink knob :) and Peter's is a bedside table that I switched out from another bedroom.

I did frame collages on each of our respective sides using old frames I had (spray painting some and leaving some as is). On my side is my grandparents wedding invitation, a baby pic of my grandpa, a rhodesian ridgeback art print my mom & I bought in Austin, and some other fun stuff! 

And this is Peters side... his favorite thing is the black & white lonesome dove pic, duhh.

I love these wooden butterflies.. I bought them at Paper Source a long time ago and found them during the redo. I just sticky tacked them to the wall.

I added the curtain to the bathroom door for a little privacy! Also put up a map made of cool patterns that I got on sale at Urban Outfitters. I got the frame for that at a thrift store and spray painted it a metallic goldish color. I repainted the chest of drawers on the right (it used to be black), distressed it a little bit, and changed the hardware.





I repainted this dresser (actually using just one sample jar of paint from home depot, which I'm sort of proud of, haha)... it used to be black. I also repainted the knobs in the same metallic goldish color as above. The white rattan thing above the dresser is actually a twin headboard. I got it at a thrift store and love it! Also you can see on the far right side of the pic one of the new curtains I hung up. I found them in the clearance bin at West Elm! 




Benson loves the new bedroom too! 

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Armoire Redo - Before & After!

Peter's parents gave us their old armoire when we moved into our house & the plan from day one was to paint it, but for some reason I didn't get around to it until now (aka 2  years later). haha oops! 
Anyway, here is the before & after..


And here's a closeup of the new handles & the lacy paper I added to the panels to spiiice things up.

The "new" handles were taken off of something else a while back & I printed the lacy paper myself, so the only cost for the project was the paint (mosaic tile by behr), about $14. Yay!

Monday, September 12, 2011

File Cabinet Coffee Table!

I saw this old file cabinet in my garage the other day & an idea popped itself into my random head.. what if I turned this babyyy on its side and made a coffee table out of it? 


I had seen it every day since we moved in (the people who lived here before us left it in the garage) but I hadn't noticed its true beeeauty until now! I loved its rusty worn look & loved the color too! Soo inch by inch I drug that 500 pound hunk of lovely junk out of the garage and with the help of my buff & manlyyy husband, carried it into the living room.


After a good & thorough cleaning (years spent in a garage = nasty) I think she looks quite lovely in her new home!

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Beautiful Evil Thrifty Chair.

I went by my fav little thrift store yesterday on the way home from the post office. All I needed was a $1 piece of fabric & I promised myself that I would not be tempted by all the other beautiful, wonderful, evil little things around me... 


I failed. Five minutes after I promised not to be tempted by things such as these, I was outside sweating and cursing trying to get the little beauty in the front passenger seat of my beetle. But I meannn, as I told Peter, I really had no choice... It was $25... TWENTY FIVE! Ahhh! Its just not right to put these types of bargains in front of my face.. I'm not strong enough! 

Oooh well, I'll worry about my willpower later. For now I'm just gonna go stare at my chair and smile creepily by myself. Byeee! 

Monday, July 25, 2011

Our Home: Mushy New Kitchen Rug!

Our old kitchen rug was looking pretty bad, so I found this new one at Urban Outfitters. I love it! Although Im pretty sure thats mainly because I've been away from Peter for about 3 weeks (me in France and then him in New Orleans) & have been feeling all lovey & sappy.. haha maybe it will remind me of that lovin feeling when I'm doing irritating kitchen chores!


Oh hello Benson.

Aw he likes the rug too! Or he just thinks I'm weird for taking pictures of it.

Ok thats all for the kitchen rug turned benson photo shoot. Have a great week!

Monday, April 18, 2011

Lusty Lust: Atlanta Bartlett Interior Styling

I came across pictures of Atlanta Bartlett's design work lately & went to her website to find more... I loooove every photo I see! Her work is very relaxed looking and just beautiful. She also has a new online boutique called Pale & Interesting with her designer husband Dave Coote. Such pretty stuff! Here are some of my fav pictures..