{Decorating Dilemma} Living room shelves
As the end of January neared, I had to pack up all my Christmas decor. I mean, I’m not gonna be that girl, the one who never puts the stuff away, right? Never mind the Christmas tree that’s still...
View ArticleIt’s time for a color splash!
See those weird dark spots on our living room walls? After having a small paint chip taped to our living room wall for over 2 months, we finally bit the bullet this past weekend, grabbed a paint...
View ArticleLaunched: Operation Living Color
We have 8 days in which to make our home presentable for a small dinner party. Or something of that sort. As usual, I seem to have bit off more than I can chew, by deciding we *must* finish painting...
View ArticleLiving Room: Painted!
Say goodbye to my bland living room, because no photo of it will ever look this way again: The healthy dose of Behr’s Tate Olive paint that we splashed on our living room walls was just the trick we...
View ArticleEntryway Makeover: Totally free
Hi! Did you have an awesome weekend? I hope so. We got to kick ours off to a great start with a little dinner party Friday night – and yes, we had the house ready in time. It wasn’t perfect, but it...
View ArticleOperation Closet Cleanup
Let’s follow-up yesterday’s closet “wallpapering” post with a closer look at the storage solutions I whipped up for the small space. Remember, before my overhaul it was this embarrassing: But it was...
View ArticleSecondhand Scores: The Living Room
When Rhoda of Southern Hospitality tweeted about her Thrifty Treasures blog party, I replied – on a whim – “Sometimes I think my whole home is a thrifty treasure!” Then I thought to myself…why don’t I...
View ArticleLiving Room Update: We got Janery’d!
Do you notice anything different in our living room? It occurred to me recently that it’s kind of silly not to have any of my own handmade pillows and other home accessories from Janery in my home....
View ArticleBefore & After: A Mid-Century Modern Entryway
Remember that sneak peek I gave you of a mid-century modern style table I was building? It was our solution for our entry way, which was still struggling to find its perfect style after one and a half...
View ArticleChoosing a New Sofa {AKA Buy new or reupholster?}
Our living room is back to looking like this: After its brief audition for “Honey, I shrunk the sofa!” last week: What are we doing with the mid-century sofa? To answer the question(s) many of you...
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No Mantel? No Problem! {Faux Holiday Mantel Wall for Renters}
Christmas decorating can pose a problem for apartment renters and even home renters like me, because we often don’t have a fireplace and mantel to decorate! Ok, so maybe it’s not a huge problem, but...
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{How To} Plan an Organizing System Before Starting a Project
I was sorting and organizing a bunch of older photos, when I came across a pic I snapped during my Coat Closet Makeover project in the spring. It’s a photo of my notebook that I’d snapped so that I...
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The 4-Year Lamp Rewiring Project
You may have seen a fabulous vintage lamp hovering in the back corner of my living room photos for the last few years. Sure, it looked great, but want to know a dirty little secret? IT NEVER WORKED....
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Updated Rental Home Tour: Living Room, Dining, Kitchen
June is my blogiversary month, and May marked the end of our third year in this little rental home. Three years of living here, and four of blogging? Holy cow. Where on earth does the time go?! Since...
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Reupholstering Our Sofa: Choosing the Leather
Blog photos often convey a much cleaner version of real life. I know this for a fact now, because our white living room sofa looks so much better in blog photos than in real life. It’s become...
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Our Reupholstered Petrie Sofa is Back!
I returned home from my business trip to Las Vegas last week just in time to take delivery of our reupholstered sofa! It’s amazing what a difference it makes in the room. I was worried that it would...
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Honey, I shrunk the sofa!
You may remember our pre-wedding living room as this: But last week Ryan and I finally put together the mid-century modern sofa and chair that we brought home from our honeymoon, and it now looks like...
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Creating a Home Office in the Living Room
When you live in an apartment, space comes at a premium and you don’t always have an entire room to dedicate to your home office. But whether you use your office to work from home full-time or just to...
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Trying to Find the Perfect Gray Paint for our Living Room
On New Year’s Weekend of 2014-15, Ryan and I discussed changing the paint in our living room. We’d enjoyed the Tate Olive accent walls for several years, but after reupholstering the sofa in brown...
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The Great Gray Paint Debacle of 2016
What was supposed to be a quick weekend painting project to kick off the new year has become the Great Gray Paint Debacle of 2016. First, an update on the living room. After some debate, we decided to...
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