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Friday High Five For a BEDROOM MAKEOVER!

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You guys, this week I’ve been all sorts of outta whack and frankly, I’m switching things up. Why? Cause I don’t conform. Or something. Or really cause I blog about what I want to blog about when I want to blog about it.

And, well, today’s Friday. And I’ve had a, you could say, a rough week, and today I’m celebrating the fact that it’s FRIDAY.

So, along those lines, I wanted to finally share some photos of our BEDROOM!

So, instead of my usual Friday High Fives post that I usually do, I’m doing a whole bunch of HIGH FIVES FOR (almost) FINISHED BEDROOMS!

I‘m still linking up with Lauren over at From My Grey Desk, because she is pretty dang awesome.

FINALLY our bedroom is at a place where I feel like it’s ALMOST done. Still some little things here or there to really iron out and make nicer, but we are LOVING it. Hubs bought this house almost three years ago, and until February of this year, it was definitely a bachelor pad. And so when I moved in, he was adamant about us making it OUR home and, you know, de-bachelorizing it.

Now, the room that WAS his room is now our guest room and the room that his roommate lived in before we got married is now our room.

But you see, that room had a horrible poo-brown paint color and AWFUL navy blue carpet. YUCK. So, before the wedding, John worked so hard painting the room and replacing the carpet and surprised me the day after our wedding with the results. Then, when we got back from the honeymoon, I got to WORK ON THE DECORATING! YAY!!

Enough of my rambling. Here are some photos of our room! The before photos were taken by hubs on his iPhone – so unfortunately, they don’t give a GREAT picture of what the room looked like before, but hopefully you get the idea.

We live in a little Cape Cod home, so we have slanted ceilings in our room which can make arranging furniture a challenge. Also, it is HOT in the summer upstairs. So we have to have window AC unit to cool it down. Oh wells.

BEDROOM BEFORE. I don’t know if you can tell, but that paint color and that CARPET is horrendous. YIKES.

BEFORE. Ugh. Worst carpet color ever.

BEFORE.  Seriously, the photos don’t do the poo-brown color of that paint justice.

BEFORE: Closet Area

PROGRESS! Grey paint is done (you can’t tell via the picture, but the wall underneath the slanty ceiling is an accent wall, a darker shade of grey than the other walls. And this is also when the carpet was getting pulled up.

BEFORE: the window area. Grey paint. Carpet getting pulled up.
PROGRESS! New carpet!

PROGRESS! NEW CARPET!
AND BOOM! VOILA! Our ROOM! (That’s my dresser… can you tell?)
This is Hubs’ dresser – you know, with an engagement portrait canvas over it!

You know, a little “S” monogram action.
LOVE these. I’ve had these little sconces forever and I knew that RED was going to be the perfect accent color against all the black, white, and grey – and so I snagged these RED candles at the dollar store and I love the way they look!
OUR BED! :) (Can you tell I like quatrefoils? Husband is so kind to let me continue to feed my love for quats)
I avoided getting this quat mirror for MONTHS. And then finally, I caved one day when it was back on the shelves at Target. I want like 10 more. I LOVE THIS MIRROR.


More engagement portraits on the walls of our bedroom. I love them so much they’re ALL OVER our house. :)
My side of the room!

My wedding hanger :)
You know, a monogram M.
My wedding garters
I have had this jewelry box my whole life. I love that picture of me and my mom.
My momma’s dogtags.
You know, a place to hang my necklaces! Got these little hooks for $6 at Target!

Our closet area. I finally hung those fun, swirly IKEA mirrors. ALL BY MYSELF! Husband was so proud. Especially since he had temporarily banned me from using the power drill. Too many WHOOPSIES….

And yeah, those are quatrefoil picture frames with photos from our honeymoon in them. I have a serious quat obsession.
QUAT FRAMES.
For the curious: YES, I make the bed EVERY DAY. I feel anxious if I don’t make the bed. Seriously, it takes TWO seconds. Okay, more like thirty seconds, but seriously. It takes NO time to make the bed, and the room looks SO much more complete when the bed is made!


Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s a quat on our bedspread. It’s totally fine.
More sconces
Wedding photos canvas above the bed :)
LOVE IT. It makes me so happy!!
ONE MORE BEFORE AND AFTER LOOK

So yeah. What do you think of our bedroom makeover? I’m high-fiving it all over the place. YAY!

What are YOU high-fiving today?

xoxo, all for now.

Yeah, there’s not going to be a 52 in 52 post today. Our “date night” was me making dinner at home this week. Sadly, life got in the way of going to a restaurant, but that’s okay. We will deal and be back to our regularly scheduled program next week.

[Home] Improvements: DIY Painted Planters

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You guys, it’s Tuesday.

Why enlighten us, Captain Obvious.

Just thought you should know.

So, hubs has lived in our house almost three years and he did a few things to it when he first moved in, but since I moved in after the wedding, we’ve had so much fun doing little things here or there to make it feel like OUR house.

Well, one day, when I was washing dishes looking out the kitchen window onto our back deck, I got this sweet idea that I wanted to paint the flower planters YELLOW. Like, bright yellow!

Now, I know this is not a tutorial on how to build the planters or anything… maybe I’ll do that one day. But I wanted to keep it simple for now.

And so that weekend, we went to Home Depot, got a quart of BRIGHT yellow paint, and BOOM. Got to work.

[planters BEFORE]

[planters BEFORE]

[planters BEFORE]
[planters BEFORE]
[getting to work]

[tater was supervising]

[progress!]

[please forgive my old t-shirt and poor hairdo. i was helping... i just wanted to get this picture.]

[more progress]

[VOILA! i LOVE looking at these out the back kitchen window now.]

[i love the fun, bright, rustic look of them!!]

[YAY!!!]
whattya think? like? love? hate? i know this was such a simple project, but i just love the way it turned out. i think it makes our back deck a little livelier!

what projects have you done lately?

xoxo, all for now.

Home Decor Fabulousness at High Point Furniture Market 2012

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You guys, before this past Saturday, I had never been to High Point Furniture Market.

My father-in-law has worked in international sales for Century Furniture for almost 25 years. So, the FIL got hubs and I passes and since High Point is only about an hour or so drive from Chapel Hill, we decided to make a day of it. (I even got to spend time with my sister and the nephew later that day! SCORE!)

Well, even though we only saw the Century and Highland House (Highland House is also owned by Century) showrooms, I was in home decor heaven. Seriously. Oh, and the number of QUATREFOILS was insane. It was like they were taunting me with all their beautiful quatrefoils. SERIOUSLY. AHHH. SO MANY QUATS.

Now, of course 99% of it I could never afford, but hey, a girl can dream.

I also took a TON of pictures. Like, 726 to be exact. I have narrowed them down for you to my FAVORITE rooms. If you are REALLY curious to see other rooms, you can let me know and I’ll post more.

Now, I am not a professional photographer and these were all taken on my cell phone and Nikon point & shoot… so don’t judge.

Also, since I know you’re probably just DYING to know, here’s what I wore on Saturday:

(nothing fancy, I know, but we were doing a TON of walking around so I wanted to make sure I was comfortable)


Here’s my Polyvore inspiration board:

NOW, on to the Home Decor HEAVEN!!

Look at this GORGEOUS quat chair:
LOVE this quat rug:
Just a quick shot of me being a total creeper in a fancy place. #WhyICan’tHaveNiceThings
Oh, so there was this time that I saw this random framed photo of CAMERON DIAZ at Furniture Market. WHAT?
I think you can gauge how fancy someone is by how large the magnifying glass on their coffee table is.
I honestly want to know what this is.
This photo doesn’t do the colors in this gorgeous room justice.
This teal and yellow room reminded me of Katelyn James haha!
This is the section of rooms designed by artist Bob Timberlake. We got to meet him, too! (he was SO NICE). I love the rustic look of his rooms.
I love this place setting idea for the fall or Thanksgiving. Heck, even Christmas. I don’t know why I’m seduced by old books all the time, but I am.
Again, with the giant magnifying glasses.
I love this one.
So this picture just makes me mad – because hubs and I brought home a real piece of reef EXACTLY LIKE THIS from Mexico from our Honeymoon – and we were gonna use it as decor… until our dog TATER ATE IT. Tater ate the reef. Ugh.
MORE QUAT CHAIRS!
I want a display ladder like this so badly. I bet you I can make one…
Also not sure why but I love this, too.
Then there was this one time I walked into a room and found THIS GIANT QUAT MIRROR. Ahhhhh love.
Room with the giant QUAT mirror.
Love old doors like I love old books.
Some of the “outdoor” or “patio” decor / furniture
I love love love this coffee table. OH MY GOSH. This picture doesn’t do the gorgeousness of it justice.
This, Ladies and Gents, is an OSCAR DE LA RENTA designed room. He has a whole collection for Century. #SWOON
More Oscar de la Renta…
This was probably my favorite room in the WHOLE PLACE. Oh my gosh. It’s OSCAR DE LA RENTA. It has a quat mirror. GORGEOUS walls. GORGEOUS bedding. I love it all.
Love the pop of colors in this room. Also, Oscar.
I don’t think this is Oscar, but still gorgeous. I love the photo layout on the wall.
Found this SWEET chair. Decided to be silly. What else is new?
A bed with a quat headboard. Yes, please.
More quats on the wall. I wasn’t kidding when I said they were everywhere.
Who wants these dining room chairs? ME.
So, these things were in a dish as decor. I WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THEM. They were so cool!!!
How sweet is that iron bed?
Love these colors.
Phew. Okay. You still with me?
What did you think? Love? Hate? What were your favorites? Least favorites? What’s your dream room?
xoxo, all for now.

DIY Wooden Photo Boards + Eric Church

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Remember when I showed you this teaser last week?

Yeah, so there’s a story behind the photo.

That’s Eric Church in the photo. THE Eric Church.

So, John and I danced to “Like Jesus Does” by Eric Church for our first dance. Well, a friend of John’s named Taylor, who was in attendance at our wedding, just so happens to be friends with Eric Church. YEAH. I know. I’m jealous, too.

Anywho. Eric was playing a concert the night of our wedding in Greensboro… and since we had an earlier wedding, Taylor was able to make the show. Well, Taylor just so happened to hang out with Eric backstage and show him a VIDEO of our first dance. SO, that picture is Eric Church watching a video of our first dance on his cell phone the night of our wedding.

HOW COOL IS THAT?! Seriously. We woke up the morning after our wedding with a text from Taylor and that picture. BEST. GIFT. EVAR.

So anyway. I wanted to get the photo printed and display it in a cool way since it’s such an awesome story for us and the picture means so much – and I figured getting some first dance pictures printed along with it would be uber appropriate.

Now, a few weeks ago, I saw this company on Pinterest – making 3, 5×7 wooden “photo boards” for $95! $95! WHAT?! That’s crazy expensive. I knew I could make the same thing for cheaper. Like, WAY cheaper.

And I did. BOOM.

Here’s what I did!

I went to Home Depot and bought 3 pieces of plywood in 5×7″ cuts. Total cost for all three pieces? $0.51. Yeah, FITTY ONE CENTS.

Luckily we already had wood stain on hand. Hubs helped me stain the pieces while I took a photo.

Gotta let the pieces dry. After that, I grabbed my brushes, printed photos, and Mod Podge and got to work. (I already had all these things on hand)

I put a layer of Mod Podge on the wood.

Put the photo on the Mod Podge.

Put a layer of Mod Podge over the photo. If this is your first time using Mod Podge, don’t fret. It dries clear! Also, beware of shedding brushes. I kept having to deal with stray brush hairs. UGH.

I repeated the process on all the photos and pieces of wood.

Let the Mod Podge dry COMPLETELY. This may have to happen overnight – but for me it took a couple hours. Then gather some Polyurethane. Now, I had this can on hand already… but I bought this can last year and have used it on close to 10 projects and I’ve barely used ANY. One can goes a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY long way.

Put a good coating of Polyurethane on your dried, Mod Podged photo boards. Get the edges good, too.

Once they’re dry – this part did take longer to dry… get what you want to use to hang your photos. I got these Hammer Sawtooth Hangers from Wal-mart for $0.98 cents.

I measured out the center points of each board (the hammer sawtooth hangers are an inch wide so I measured the inch in the center of each board on the back and marked it with a Sharpie).

Then I knew where exactly to hammer in the hangars. They were even and centered. Phew. Oh, and please excuse the paper towel residue. Woops. I glued the paper towel to the back a little bit. My bad. Oh well, you can’t see it from the front.

Now, obviously once the hangers are on, you could leave it at that and hang your photo like that and they can stand on their own, but I wanted RIBBON! Our living room walls are a light green, and I’ve been incorporating pops of Kelly green throughout, so I opted for Kelly green ribbon I got on sale from Wal-mart for $1.00. I measured three strands of ribbon at the same length and looped them through. You could definitely do this differently, this is just how I opted to do it.

Then I measured the distance between the braces of the shelf on our wall so I could exactly measure where to put the photos.

I used pretty drawer knobs I got from Wal-mart and put them in the wall…

Voila!!!!!!!! Don’t they look AWESOME?!

I loveeeeeeee the uniqueness of the whole thing. I love the mis-matching look of the canvas photo on the left and the wooden photos on the right.

NOW, I’ll show you the rest of the shelf / living room area later… cause we’re working on a project (and I made a BUNCH of updates to this area since this photo was taken). But I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE the way the photo boards turned out!

So, yeah. I made all three photo boards for a total of… $7.25!! INCLUDING the photo printing costs. BOOM.

I feel like I should start my own Etsy shop making these for people. Would you order them or would you make them yourself? What do you think?

xoxo, all for now.

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