Just to Clarify

I love, love, LOVE doing interior design. It is a strong passion of mine, I honestly can not emphasis that enough.  I have gone back and forth with how to fulfill this passion and also the knowledge that I have learned going to design school. It is so hard to find the right balance in life in all the different roles we juggle. After a lot of thought I have decided to stick with doing e-design. If you are interested in my services you can find out more about e-design HERE. 

That is all! Happy Friday and come check in tomorrow I am relieving a remodel project I am currently working on!

Wall Paper Lovin

When I did my internship at Ethan Allen, I recall being so elated to find out that wallpaper was "in style again" although they quickly corrected me and said, "Crystal wallpaper was never OUT of style". Well that being said I have definitely noticed wallpaper being used a lot more than it used to be. I have had people ask me where to get my favorite wallpaper so here is a few place I have found wallpaper and LOVE:

Residential Wallpaper }{ Anthropologie }{ Etsy }{ Domino 

  I mean even if you clam to hate wallpaper how could you hate this, there is just so many different ways & styles that you can incorporate wallpaper into your home and it adds SO much!;)
Here is how some other incredible designers have used it:

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LOVE it all folks! Simple and beautiful:)
Happy Wednesday!

Baby Girl Nursery

I have loved having the opportunity to design a baby girl nursery for my client. 

She told me she would like a brown crib, she really doesn't like contemporary cribs that seem to be the big trend right now. She wanted something more along the lines of traditional. With all the colors she wanted I put together a more eclectic nursery e-board:

Well after looking at furniture and shopping around she decided she wanted a white crib and to do the color scheme coral and aqua. Sticking with traditional looking furniture so here is the 2nd e-board that she decided to go with:

Very different looks right!? both very bright and cheery! All the furniture has been ordered we are just waiting for it to be delivered to finish off the little details! 

(I will reveal links to products with the room reveal)

Entry Way..

Here is what our entry way has looked like in the past. It wasn't bad but I have had that mirror since I was 8 years old. The entry way table was for my portfolio project (when I was graduating Interior Design school) just got it off KSL and painted it. I have never really LOVED it, I just always tried to make it work.

This was our January/winter decor for our entry way:

Summer entry way:

And now gone..haha:) as I smile with relief. 

I decided I really wanted a little bench instead of an entry way table:

..as you can tell I totally photoshopped the faux fiddle leaf tree in, why because I only wish it were really in my home!! They are just so pricey though! Goodness. Here is where I really wanted to get one from:

Option ONE

Option TWO

(more affordable option)

Option THREE

And there is always Cactus & Tropicals that also carries real fig trees.

My husband HATES plants though, how sad is that! He disclosed this to me when I was sharing my great love for them. Well it is okay because I honestly don't want to deal with a live plant and a two year old. 

Instead of the fig tree, I went with this beautiful coat rack that my dad built us: 

(I am loving the brass hardware from Restoration Hardware) not only does it tie the whole look together but it is also an extremely functional space now. 

Coat Rack/custom built

Mirror/Target

ottoman bench/Target

Rug/from Argentina (but can be purchased at homegoods)

Accent pillow/Target 

(I went Target happy one day, which is hard not to do every time I go there)

Good Find

Well nothing new with me, just sold our entry way table, mirror and some other decor to make room for some new/old furniture & decor. (which I will show what I have done to our entry way tomorrow so don't forget to stop on by to see it)  I always ask my husband what he thinks and he says, "I don't care as long as you don't spend money. So it works out nicely that I can sell our old stuff.

I have been wanting some kind of end table or accent table to put on the end of our sofa. Finally I knew just what I wanted so I headed to HomeDepot to get the material I would need, well I just wanted to get some pre-made legs but they were $11 a piece which really adds up for just the LEGS. So I thought I will just check the DI and see if they have what I am looking for. I wondered around and stumbled across the EXACT, I repeat (just so you know how precise I am being) EXACT table I was going to build for $10! What!! okay in the cart you go, you beautiful contemporary piece of furniture that I will sand down and paint when I get home. 

Here is the result (I forgot to get a snap of the before but it was just wood so picture that I suppose):

We moved our sofa against the south wall to make room for our Christmas tree and we found that we highly enjoyed the arrangement so we kept it that way. We also switched rooms with our son (cause he had a bigger closet and we really needed more space, so out he went) well he already has a rocking chair in his room so we brought this leather chair (that I scored off KSL for $10!) showed it some love with gorgeous sheep skin from Argentina draped over it and tossed an accent pillow.  Anyways here is how our living room now:

Owen's Room (update) REVEAL:)

I have been itching to change Owen's room, I was just kinda bored of the orange. So with spending a total of $7 I got two cans of emerald green sprain paint from Ace Hardware. (I already had sand paper to sand it down, clear coat spray paint, and some metallic gold paint to do the knobs- all from Ace hardware).

So here is the before:

After:

I am really happy with how it turned out, I love going into his room and just staring at it:)

now as for the rest of the room;

The crib we (used to) have I got off KSL for a great deal and it is in great shape so we gave it a new home (to some lady that I sold it to on KSL)

and got this crib from IkEA:

and I also sold the rocking chair and got this leather rocking chair for a whopping $10!!!

Here is the results peeps:

crib}ikea   bike art}etsy frames}made them (but you can get similar ones at ikea)

Rug}from    Argentina (can get fake ones from homegoods)   Leather chair}KSL 

Accent pillow}Homegoods   Basket} Target

I am quite pleased not spending any extra money to spruce up his room and simplify! 

Teen Bedroom

This client had me design a room for her little brother that is 16. 

I LOVE doing bedrooms, so of course I was thrilled to do it. 

He LOVES music so I made sure to incorporate that in the design.

My client requested to keep his current dresser and nightstands (which I don't have the nightstands in the e board but we will incorporate them). She wanted a headboard similar to the one below.

She also wanted an industrial iron curtain rod. 

The budget she gave me was $1,000

So keeping that all in mind and staying under the budget this is what I came up with:

(when I do the room reval I will post where everything is from)

I really wanted to add this Arne Jacobsen Egg chair. The chair retails for about $7,000. But that didn't rule it out for me I was on a mission to find it cheaper. Well even the knock off was still about $600-$1,000 which eats up the whole budget. So I turned to my best source of luck- KSL. I couldn't believe my brown eyes, knock off for $100.00 in great shape! 

I sent a picture to my client she loved it and went and picked it up! 

Insert...happy dance:)

The bedding is from H&M but we are also looking into these two bedding options,

both from Restoration Hardware

The progress is coming along nicely we have all the major pieces and are just getting some of the smaller items to complete the room!