Fawning...

Some social media friends you just know one day will be face to face friends. Lizzie happens to be one of those. She is kind as can be and endlessly inspires me through her instagram. She was lucky enough to visit the Coastal Living idea house recently and was kind enough to send me some images to fawn over. I don't want to spoil the whole thing so I only choose a few images that made me fall head over heels in love.

The first was this hall. Looks like it may be the one upstairs. Is it not jaw dropping amazing?  I would also love to see this as a main entry hall. It's very simple, but the pink really sends it over the edge for me. I still dream of having a sofa in this color. Maybe one day I will be ever so bold!

My second favorite room is what I think is the breakfast room. The blue bead board ceiling, walls of windows, and comfy seating that lends itself to hours spent around the table. Looks perfect for dinner with friends, family game nights, and even a little quiet time with a cup a coffee in the morning. I am pretty sure this would be a go to spot for me.

Thank you Lizzie for sharing!!! Seriously made my day!

Happenings...

I feel like I am FINALLY getting a handle on things again. I have had some great decorating clients that have kept me quite busy over the past few months. This week I have two of my most time consuming ones 99% wrapped up. Would be 100% finished if the deliveries would just come already. I will take better pics once they are completely finished.

The first was more of a revamping. The owner had it done 7 years ago, but was ready for something lighter and younger feeling. The room gets really dark and all the dark brown was making it fall flat. What I did was add a new coffee table, had custom pillows and slipcovers made, added art, and re-accessorized with a few new things, but mostly used her current things in new ways. The whole room feels so different! I just love how reworking a few pieces really can change up a whole space. It also shows how buying well thought out pieces from the beginning and investing in a few good pieces really can carry you throughout life.

Now this job really did take over my life for a bit. Ha. It was a condo for newlyweds. My job was to make two decidedly different tastes become one. We used mostly all there current pieces with the addition of new living room furniture, bedding, bath accessories, etc. Really all the things they had yet to own. My job was to make it all feel cohesive. I must say this is much harder than one would think. It really makes me have to think outside of the box to make some pieces work and to make it all flow together well. This condo is a rental so we could only do so much and I wanted to ONLY invest in things that they can use in their next home. For this room in particular the chairs were the Mr's and I recovered them, the table was actually the landlords table and she said I could use it for this project, the art is a suzani the Mrs had and I had framed. This space is small and I wanted it to become a space for her to come have breakfast and do her morning prayer time. A sanctuary of sorts.

Now to get officially back to my blogging schedule next week! I've miseed this! Hope you all are well...

For Sale

Long story short I have a client who purchased new sofas. She then decided she rather keep her old sofas and we had them slipcovered. So in the end I ended up with two lovely Rowe sofa's. I sold one and have one left. Let me know if you are interested! I am selling them at the same price I bought them for.