I can’t believe it’s time for the One Room Challenge! I’ve been dreaming and scheming about being a guest participant for this series for months. A few years ago, we transitioned one of the bedrooms into my home office. At the time, I was so excited to have space to spread out. I have big plans to give this hard working space a brand new start and leave my storage unit ways behind…
A few weeks ago I spent a good part of the week working on the River Ranch project. The house is a retreat space right on the water and it needed everything from sleeping pillows for the bedroom makeovers to furniture in every room. It’s been so much fun to create a comfortable space for the family to enjoy and while we still have things on our list to finish, it’s all starting to come together…
One easy way to create a Spring inspired look in your dining room without spending a lot extra money on flower arrangements is to head to your local plant nursery or home improvement store for flowers, plants or herbs. We recently bought these lavender plants and they smells so good. Here’s a look at how you can bring Spring to your dining room with inexpensive finds too…
Spring is always a fun time to celebrate flowers and host outdoor gatherings. For this vintage inspired Spring tablescape I wanted to bring in all of the random bits of china I’ve collected over the past few years. Collect the patterns you love then mix and match for your parties. I’ve seen them for as little as .50 cents each and as much as $40. Here’s a look at how you can achieve a vintage inspired Spring tablescape too…
After three long weeks of working on this laundry room makeover, I’m super excited that reveal day is finally here. This was one of those projects that I thought would maybe take a week to complete ha ha! Here’s a look at how all of the details came together…
Over the past few years, the laundry room has undergone a few small makeovers. The best thing we added to the space was a folding station. It’s such a time saver especially on those heavy laundry days. Recently, I found I needed a bit more surface area on the folding station so I hit the treasure trail to find just the perfect piece. Here’s a look at what I came home with…
It all started when we decided to give the breakfast area a little refresh. As I’ve shared with you guys before, this house has an open floor plan making it hard to change things up in one room without changing things up in the adjoining rooms. So, once we finished with the breakfast area, I decided to add a few new things to the kitchen too. Here’s a look at the kitchen refresh…
Have you guys been to the fabric store lately? There are so many beautiful things to choose from. I mostly pick up vintage fabrics when I find them at thrift stores or estate sales so it was fun to look at new patterns and textures. I bought the prettiest lightweight flannel fabric the other day. It was really inexpensive and the neutral color made it perfect for several projects. Here’s how you can use one neutral fabric four different ways…
In the midst of organizing the kitchen, I got a crazy idea to give the walk in pantry a little makeover too. We gave the walls a fresh coat of paint, created a space for vintage dishes, party supplies, updated the dry goods side of the pantry, built two storage drawers, put up a chalkboard for the weekly grocery list and even made a dog feeding station from an old nightstand. I can’t wait to show you the before and after photots. Welcome to our pantry makeover reveal….
While we were waiting on my dad to finish the farm table for the dining room at Loblolly, my mom and I got to work on another set of chairs. We’ve used varied colors of chalk paint on almost all of the painted pieces throughout the house and we wanted something with a totally different finish. Since the living room opens up to the kitchen, which already has touches of green, we chose Miss Mustard Seed Milkpaint in Lucketts Green for the accent chairs…
The budget for Loblolly has been largely used for construction issues, roofing concerns, new appliances and flooring. We’ve had to get really creative with the pieces we’re bringing in to keep the French Country look my mom is after. When we found this coffee table base on the side of the road, the top was missing and I’m pretty sure a dog had been chewing on one of the legs. Here’s how we created a coffee table for Lobolly Manor with a few pieces of scrap wood….
I’m so excited about the progress we made in 2015 with different projects around the house. It definitely makes me want to keeping building on all that we accomplished last year especially in the dining room. It’s taken me forever to find the perfect curtains for that space but I think I’ve finally found them thanks to the help of Royal Design Studio Stencils. Here’s how you can achieve a custom look with paint, stencils and drop cloths…
