Life is filled with moments. These are mine.
One of the things I’ve always wanted in a house is built-ins, preferably around a fireplace. Lucky for me, the house we purchased 2.5 years ago came with exactly that! Except it was nowhere near what I had envisioned. The fireplace and built-ins in our family room were original from when the house was built […]
If there’s one room in the house that has seen the most number of changes throughout the years it’s our living room. Between rugs, furniture, the TV moving, decor…the living room has been ever-evolving. It’s taken me a while to really nail down my style, but I think I’ve finally figured it out. It’s modern, but […]
When we moved into our house, the fireplace was ugly–dingy brick, black grout and a terrible insert. It didn’t take long before we removed the insert, but it sat with the ugly brick for several months before I finally painted it white with a black high-heat paint for the inside. And that’s how the fireplace has looked for […]
We put our tree up last Sunday 🙂 Last year we drove to a Christmas tree farm a couple hours south of the city to cut down a tree, but this year we drove 10 minutes to a nearby farmer’s market to pick out a tree. Not quite the same experience, but it was better […]
I always look forward to a new season or holiday that allows me to decorate our fireplace. I feel like it adds to the feel of that season or holiday. So it was only appropriate to add some fall foliage to our fireplace. We didn’t get as crazy as last year with the autumn and […]
I have been wanting to write this post for the last week and finish showing off the mini, and not–quite–done, fireplace makeover that started talking about two months ago. Every time I wanted to sit down to do so, some sort of obstacle/distraction got in my way. The latest obstacle was finding the cord to […]