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Category Archives: Interior Design
January 11, 2011
Finally, a nursery update!
I’ve been meaning to post pictures of the nursery for so long now and today I finally got around to snapping some pictures. They’re not the best quality, but they are the best I can do for now so bear with me! $5 Rocking Chair (originally $500) spray painted white by the husband and reupholstered [...]
October 26, 2010
DIY Paintings
I wanted to create some art for the nursery and I liked the idea of silhouette art. Since our baby isn’t born yet, I knew I couldn’t use his face as seen in typical silhouettes, so I chose three boyish images to use as my subjects: a motorcycle, a truck and an airplane. Here’s how [...]
October 21, 2010
An Easy Lamp Update
While working on the nursery, I tried to think of little ways to make it more custom without spending a lot of money. One of the ways I did that was with the lamp. I was looking for the perfect orange to go in the nursery and let me tell you, orange is very hard [...]
October 18, 2010
Nursery Details {Sneak Peek}
We accomplished A LOT over the weekend on the nursery! Here’s a sneak peek on what we’ve done so far and we still have a long ways to go. I’m having so much fun working on small projects for the nursery and will be sure to update you all with DIY instructions as we go [...]
October 5, 2010
Nursery Closet {Before}
One thing I’d really like to get done for the nursery is a new closet design. So I used AutoCAD to come up with a new closet layout that will help us to stay more organized and use up all the available closet space. One of my biggest pet peeves is poorly designed closets and [...]
September 27, 2010
Very ROUGH Nursery Design Board
Here is something I threw together at the end of last week with a few key elements I’m wanting for the nursery. Still a long ways to go and I still have lots of little details to pick out like fabric for the crib sheet (won’t be solid orange like shown) and customizing the curtains [...]
September 17, 2010
Boy Nursery Inspiration
Here are a few inspiration photos that have been grabbing my attention for our little guys nursery. Some photos are simply color inspiration where others I’ve just picked bits and pieces that I like from each photo. As of now I’m thinking of grey, navy and orange as my color palette and the rest will [...]
September 15, 2010
The Nate Show Blues
Have any of you been watching the new Nate Berkus Show? It’s been really fun to watch the first few episodes this week and I was so excited when I received an email invitation to attend the Nate Show on September 21st in New York. The entire audience will be filled with design bloggers-how cool [...]
August 12, 2010
Faux Bois your furniture
While I normally am against the 90′s style faux painting techniques that were so popular back in the day, Martha Stewart has a more updated approach to faux painting that I can get on board with. Namely, her faux bois tool that recreates the look of wood grain can really look fabulous on a piece [...]
August 11, 2010
Shop Online at Furbish!
I love Jamie Meare’s store Furbish Studio, but it is located in North Carolina so that rules out me getting to shop there. I was so excited to learn today that she has opened an online shop selling all her fabulous designer items. Definitely go check it out and find unique, beautiful items!
