Monday, January 24, 2011

Work starts on my Daughters Bedroom!

Well, I've been wanting to do something to my daughters room for some time now... finally I got started!!! It's a decent size room, nothing too big. However she had the queen bed in there and it was taking up ALL the floor space that she had! Her 7th birthday is coming up this weekend and I thought it was time to get her a new quilt and give her some pretty big girl colors. She wants hot pink, bright green and blue... you know all the colors that make my cringe! I was afraid she would have it look like a circus in there! I've been looking at different quilts and duvets on Pottery Barn, but couldn't decide. Check out what I've done so far...

This is her old duvet cover from Target. It's the shabby chic line... I love it, but it's a little worn out now! She's had it on her bed since she was 3, so it was time for a change. This is the queen bed, it will soon take a ride to the guest room! Note the paint colors on the wall next to the window! Hmmm... what color to go with???

Well here it is... I LOVE IT!!! I found this quilt at Target! They have the best stuff!!! I put this on her bed while she was at school.

As you can see... she LOVES it too! We moved it to my bedroom to see it with the wedgewood grey walls. i really do love the colors together (pic looks a little more blue). I think maybe a shade or two lighter. I really did NOT want to use the same color on the walls as our room though... ANY SUGGESTIONS???

After cleaning out (aka... throwing out) a ton of stuff from her room, I moved the bed from my sons room over. It's a full size... lots more floor space. Moved some furniture around and decided to call it a day! I will be doing a lot more to this room... so stay tuned! We are trying to come up with a wall color now. I just don't want anything bright on the walls since there is already a lot going on. I would be very open to suggestions from any of you! Thanks for looking!


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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

My New Master Bedroom Re-Do!

Well it took me what seems like FOREVER to get my master bedroom where I want it... but it was totally worth the wait! Here is the post for last year that shows what my room looked like before. I have not taken pics of my bathroom yet... you can get a tiny sneak peak in some of the pics ;-)








The color is Benjamin Moore Wedgewood Grey. I hope you enjoyed my pics, be sure to keep looking back for bathroom pics coming soon! I'm also going to post pics of my laundry room that I completely re-did. This year I have a lot of TO DO items... like my children's rooms! Thanks for looking!

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Black Door Make Over!

Alright, so back in October I decided that I NEEDED to paint my back door! It is bright white and it gets so dirty with the kiddos running through and the dog lying next to it! However, I wanted to try something different. I wanted it BLACK! I had already painted the front doors black and it completely transformed my foyer! Well here it is...

Before with the white door.

Ahhh... black door is so much warmer and cleaner! I LOVE it!!!

Now I know this is a super short post, so let me give you a hint of what's coming. Below are some pictures I took a while back of my master bedroom. I HATED the colors! It was so cold in there! Well I've posted some pics of it's original look because I'm going to show you tomorrow what it looks like NOW!!! Here they are in ALL their glory....
Master Bedroom

Master Sitting Area

Master Bathroom

Be sure to check back tomorrow and see how different it looks now!!!



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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Picture Wall

Well, this was the only picture I could find that showed what the wall originally looked like! I did take some pics of the steps to my new picture wall, but I caught my sweet 3 year old deleting pics off my iphone! OOPS!!! Anyway, here it is...

Original wall in the foyer. Just a framed photo of the older two (before the youngest was born) with some decorative wall hangers on either side and a small round granite top table under.

Now, my photo wall with some older ladder back chairs and decorative pillows! All of the frames and letter were multiple colors. I just spray painted them all the match! Also if you look closely you can see the frame on the top is framing out my alarm motion sensor. I had to work around it, but I think it's really cute!

I like that a few of my frames can be changed out for the different holidays or time of the year. I also like changing up the pillows. These pics were taken during Christmas obviously, but I'm already looking forward to some cute Valentines pillows for February!!!


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Monday, January 3, 2011

The Evolution of a Boring Hallway!

Well our hallway has been through some changes since we moved in our house 6.5 year ago! It can be seen from our den, so it has always been one of those walls that drove me crazy trying to figure out!

This was the way it looked in the beginning. Carpet on the floors, plain paint on the walls (Blonde from SW) and pics of the kids on wall. Not bad, just blah!

A couple of summers ago, we decided to put hardwood in the hallway upstairs. It made a huge difference!

This past October I knew something had to change. The long expansive wall of Blonde paint was getting on my nerves! So I decided instead of changing the entire wall color to add stripes! I ran across the idea from Emily A. Clark. If you haven't checked out her blog... she is amazing!

Here is another shot of the hallway. I think it helps draw your eye down the entire hall! However, there was still one thing missing...

I needed black doors! I used Ben Moore Onyx black in satan... thanks to
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