My Master Bedroom Refresh Reveal

After a long hiatus, I am back today to share with you the updates I made to my Master Bedroom. While I really liked the way my bedroom looked before, I never LOVED it. Like the kind of "I want to stay in my room all day" kind of love. So late last year I decided that I was going to change that turn this room into the luxe sanctuary I wanted it to be. In January, I set out to do just that. Although the changes I made aren't huge, the impact of them is. While I felt my room was pretty before, It lacked the some of the sophistication that are a trademark of my designs. Now, this neutral room is calming, fresh, luxe and exudes sophistication. Take a look.

Crisp all white bedding replaced the former bedding which was white, but had a yellow embroidered accent. I also chose to pull the duvet all the way up and just fold the bed blanket at the foot of the bed. I had them flipped flopped before.

I cozied up this little corner of my room with a new gray wing back chair. A new floor lamp, accent table, pouf and a gorgeous metallic pillow from the Piper Collection finish it off.

I purchased a few new pillows for the space. Another one of the metallic beauties from the Piper Collection was added to the bed, giving it the luxe effect I was looking for.

New nightstands purchased from One Kings Lane and were topped with a pair of gorgeous lamps that I picked up from my local Homegoods store.

I replaced my old sunburst mirror with this one that has a convex mirror in the center. The convex mirror gives it that extra special something.

A look at the other side of my room.

Details... the drapery panels were custom made by my fabricator using Duralee's Loop de Loop fabric in smoke. You can purchase the fabric at Onlinefabricstore.net

The best part of this space is all of the morning light that comes pouring in!

I can honestly say that I am 100% pleased with my space. I am very fortunate to have a sweet husband that gives me free reign when it comes to decorating our home. Luckily, he is happy with the space too. 

Stay tuned to see more updates of the spaces of my home. You can also follow along on Instagram to see the latest happening in my design life.

My Home Office: Going for the Gold

Happy Monday! I hope you are all off to a great week. Today I want to share with you some updates I have made to my home office over the past few months. I have previously shared my budget home office with you, which I really loved, but always felt it was missing something. I quickly realized that what the office needed was so depth and interest. I knew the easiest way to achieve that would be to add some gold into the space. The silver, while pretty, left the space feeling a little cold. I started with transforming my silver Ikea Vitssjo by giving it a dose of Antique gold Rubb n' Buff. I also spray painted the Ikea Ribba Frames that hang above the board and batten wall treatment with Design Masters Gold Medal spray paint (the absolute best gold spray paint, IMO).  I also changed up the O'verlays on my DIY painted file cabinet with a shot of the gold spray paint. The biggest change you will see is the addition of a seating area on one side of the room that was previously empty. I love having the extra seating in there so my hubby and kids can come hang out with me when I am in the office working away.  Another change I made was replacing my desk chair and the extra chair in the corner of the room. Both of those chairs were actually extra dining chairs and I wanted to replace them with something specifically for the office. The rest off the updates came in the form of adding new accessories, mostly in a gold, brass, white and blue color palette.  The changes are subtle, but I think the addition of the gold elements really enhanced the space. Take a look...

 

Here is a list of sources for items in the space - 

Desk - World Market

Desk Chair - Overstock.com

Rug - Surya purchased from Overstock.com

Shelf - Ikea Vittsjo

Corner Chair - Ballard Designs

Blue Pillow - Pottery Barn

File Cabinet - DIY with gold O'verlays from myoverlays.com

Striped Club Chair - Pier 1

Nailhead Club Chair - Safavieh from Overstock.com

Geometric Pillows - Villa Home

Gold accent table - Target

My Home: Tween Bedroom Reveal

Hello, Lovely Readers!! It has been waaaaay to long. :) I really do apologize that so much time goes by between blog posts, but I am hoping that the room reveals prove to be worth the wait. If you follow me on Instagram, you have been able to see little peaks and updates of many of the projects I am currently working on. Among them, has been my daughter's Tween bedroom. After completing Little Miss J's room, I was motivated to pull together my older daughter's and son's rooms as well. I decided I would tackle my 9 (almost 10) year old's room first. Way back before we moved into our home, I asked Miss M what kind of room she wanted. We poured over pictures together and gathered ideas for her room. We both agreed that it should be a room that she would love not only at 9 years old, but also at 12 years old. Although, I certainly chose most of the items in her room, she had plenty of input along the way. I would explain my plans to her and anything she did not love didn't make it into the room. The result is a room that she and I absolutely adore. It is a fun, feminine and fresh space that she will grow with her. After her room was finished, she exclaimed "I am the luckiest girl in the world and I love that my Mom is a Designer." Does it get any better than that? I think not.

The window cornice was a DIY project my hubby and I did many months ago. You can read more about it here. The drapes are from West Elm.

She requested a desk in her room. I knew this much loved IKEA hack would be perfect.

She loves dogs, so I matted and framed these darling Rifle Paper Co. dog note cards.

The entire room was painted gray when we moved in. The bookshelves were existing, but we had the niche painted a pretty blush color and had the crown and accent molding added by my finish carpenter.

The queen size headboard is from Pottery Barn and I had it custom upholstered by Rocky Mountain Upholstery in a pretty gray velvet.

I switched out the nickel finished lighting with the gorgeous brass sconces and a gold orbit chandelier.

The Louis Ghost chair is one of her favorite things in her room!

I hope you love this room as much as Miss M and I do! Now I need to get working on the Little Man's space! Have a wonderful weekend!

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My New Home: Basement Family Room

Hello Friends! It's been a while! I hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying the summer. My summer has been extremely busy and lots of fun. I loved spending time with my 3 kids swimming, eating ice cream and just having fun. I'm not going to lie though! It feels good to have them back in school and to have our family back on a schedule! 

Having the summer off from lessons and homework also allowed me to undertake a few projects in my own home. One of these was to give our basement family room area a little update/makeover. (If you follow me on Instagram, you've gotten to see little snippets of the space here and there). I've mentioned before that the basement layout was one of the primary selling features of our home. You may remember me saying that my husband and I let out an audible "GASP" the first time we walked down the stairs and saw it. We knew right away that it would be an area in our home that we would all really "live" in. And we do...all the time...especially the kids. All 3 of the kids' bedroom are in the basement and the basement family room is where they spend their time, playing, watching TV, doing homework and more. The most unique feature about our basement is that it has 12 foot ceilings and that it is 100% day lit. These 2 things make it feel like a whole other house, not a basement at all. My hubby and I know it is a space that our family will enjoying spending time in for many years.

All of that being said, since we moved into our house almost a year and a half ago, I had largely left the basement "undecorated." Most of the furniture in it is stuff we've had for years or was formerly used in other areas of our previous home. After I got done designing our main floor great room area, I was itching to do something with the basement. I had to consider 2 major things before getting started on it:

1. Whatever I did had to be kid friendly and appeal to the kids...because they "live" in the space.

2. I had to do it on a VERY small budget. The great room design was fairly pricey and my decorating budget had become pretty much nonexistent.

With those things in mind, I set out to decorate the basement using mostly furniture and accessories that I already owned. I also knew I wanted to add pops of vibrant color in the space. I tend to shy away from bright colors in other areas of my home, but I felt that the basement family room was a great place to do it. I wanted it to look pulled together, but still appeal to my kids. I spent a couple months pulling it all together. I even put my DIY cap on found my inner artist just long enough to paint a large piece of art that hangs over the fireplace. I'm still not sure about it, but my sweet hubby likes it and told me to leave it up. :) There's still a little work to do in this space, but for now, I'm happy with the changes I've made. Take a look... :)

As I mentioned, I used mainly furniture and accessories I already had on hand. I did purchase a few new items, but overall, very little money was spent on the basement. In my next post, I'll highlight some of my reused items and show you were they previously lived in this home or my last. Which reused items can you spy? :)