Browsing Tag: decorating

Battle of the Rugs

I’ve had my eye on a certain yellow rug from West Elm for some time, but have been holding back on buying it. Well, now I have my eye on another rug from Home Decorators. Both are 5×8, and I’d love to have either one of them, so it mainly comes down to pattern preference. […]

Weekend Projects Galore Pt. II

I’m finally getting around to putting pictures up of some of the things that have been accomplished over the last couple of weekends…sorry if it’s a long post. Project #1 So, starting with the biggest project going on in the house—the basement. Here are a few pictures of what the basement looked like when we […]

Weekend Projects Galore Pt. I

So, I haven’t really updated the blog this past week, but that’s because we didn’t really do anything during the week that was worthy enough of a post. However…the last couple weekends [especially this one] has been filled with house projects. So this is what we’ve done over the last couple weekends. No pictures tonight […]

Living & Dining Room Update

Even though the living room isn’t completely done [at least in my mind, Tim thinks it’s done] I’ve decided to show some “in progress” photos, along with photos of the house when Tim bought it last spring. It hasn’t changed dramatically since we’ve moved in…added furniture, some art and painted one wall. Tim had the […]

Sukan Pillows

Pillows with birds [especially owls] always catch my eye. Not really sure why, though—maybe it’s how simple the silhouette of the bird can get or even the playfulness and the sense of youth it can bring to almost anything? Birds hit their prime 1-2 years ago when they were considered a design trend. I think […]

So I realized that I probably should have put up pictures of the fireplace and kitchen when I was talking about them in the slate and stone post. So here are pictures of how the fireplace and kitchen currently look. You’ll understand why we’re wanting to update them. PS…I took these photos really quick with […]