Decorating your home and life the thrifty + fabulous way
Have you found yourself smitten with a color immediately and you can think of nothing else than it being on your wall?
While we are barely making a dent on the to do list at our new place, I had to eek out some time to make the master bedroom feel relaxing.
I wasn’t going to do what I did last time, and that is decorate and re-decorate every room five times over and leave the master bedroom lackluster for so long.
Not this time.
This time, I saw the color. [Read more…]
For the past ten years I have rented the home we lived in.
It was a lovely home with lots of memories, but we were ready to begin a new chapter.
So we looked a lot online first, and wanting to keep the kids in the same school limited our area.
The real estate market right now is pretty fierce here in the Pacific North West, and more than once we found something, scheduled a time to look at it, and it went pending before we could see it.
We realized that we would need to know exactly what we wanted and be ready to submit an offer quickly when we found “the one.”
Only actually walking thru two homes, the second we immediately knew was what we were looking for.
We found a mid-century modern home built in 1978 on 1/3 of an acre. A huge piece of land in our area, with all the space we need and lots of room to grow and add on if we want to someday. [Read more…]
Hi friends!
I am super excited to share my recently refreshed outdoor space for our front porch. It’s kind of a wonky narrow area so you cant really lose your mind with big pieces.
But before I get into that, I want to thank Katrin from Kreativ K for putting together this fun Outdoor Space hop. If you are not following Katrin and her gorgeous boho-scandi blog, make sure you start, she so creative!
While there are some exciting changes happening behind the scenes while we house-hunt, I still have to have my porch ready for summer. Am I ready for summer? Not so much hah, but at least my porch is rocking a global vibe full of plants and pretty colors.
I find myself flip flopping every few years between a bolder, brighter color palate and a soft, light, neutral color palate.
Lately, everything mid century modern and indie/boho has been making me swoon, so I guess it’s good that I like a super eclectic home and I am not tied to one theme. I am fairly certain this began on an extremely tight budget many years ago, and since I still love to thrift, I have kept going and never questioned what I like.
So, onto the front porch space. [Read more…]
Quilting has absolutely nothing to do with this project.
You like wreaths, I like wreaths, and I bet we both really like an easy DIY wreath that is cool, affordable and quick to make.
I bring the topics of quilts up because I love them, and I am absolutely the worst quilter that ever quilted.
I realized this after carefully shopping for just the right fabrics, planning and choosing the week of a snow storm in the early 90’s to try my hand an quilting.
AND MAKE A QUEEN SIZED QUILT.
Yep.
Queen sized, lots of snow, and the saddest attempt at quilting ever. [Read more…]
Oh friend, I cannot tell you how fun this before and after were.
I always have a running list of things I want when thrifting and junking.
Do you keep a similar list?
Right now mine looks like this (probably pared down due to recent deep cleaning and getting rid of stuff we don’t need)
There are little things too but those seem to be the items top of mind for upcoming projects.
And, this weekend I was able to take one off the “list” a refrigerator for my office at work! [Read more…]
I am unsure of how so much stuff accumulates so quickly.
We have cleaned closets, donated, and done what we thought was a house purge before.
But this time is different…
This time is for a very special reason. [Read more…]
I don’t know about you but I am sooooo ready for warmer weather, longer days, and FLOWERS!
I love to plant grasses & flowers around our patio and porch and cluster them together here and there.
They are so easy to take care of and I like how many different groupings I can put together with containers of different height and size.
We recently wanted to make a new catch all box to go by our back door for shoes, but we ended up making this pretty big.
And so it’s smaller cousin will be by the back door full of flip flops etc..
And this lovely lady (who holds some faux plants now but not for long) will be the new home to a grouping of topiaries I have had my eye on.
Here is what we used to make this rustic barn door style planter. [Read more…]
This makeover was a long time coming, and I am so super excited to share it with you!
Our laundry room has no natural light, and it’s under the stairs so the angles are challenging.
We began by gutting the room & giving it a nice deep clean.
Initially we were going to use a paint that is a bit darker with more blue, but ended up opting for a light grey.
With a busy family of five, and lots of laundry to do each week, we knew we wanted a laundry folding station. [Read more…]
This post has been way too many days in the making.
I love how this easy wreath turned out that I made recently for my front door.
It was fun, thrifty and I was able to use supplies I already had!
Perfect for a rainy day when you want to stay in your comfies and not have to leave the house right?
I used a foam wreath form that I already had (it had flannel wrapped around it from a while ago) torn s [Read more…]
I am sure you have heard the story of the frog in the boiling water.
You know…
When things begin he is just a frog living his frog life and finds himself in some water.
In this case it’s a laundry room, not a pot of boiling water, but the analogy is accurate.
Over time, and stuff, and more time, and lots more stuff, our laundry room had become a messy place that you could barely step into.
It was a pot of boiling water and I was tired of looking at this less than inspiring space.
For a while now we have talked about building a folding station on top of the washer and dryer.
So after a bit of planning, and two different wall colors, we have the folding station done, a pretty new wool rug on the floor, and the ideas for shelving are coming together.
Squeal, I am SO loving this space now!
