Starting to look like fall around here!

Alright, so it's only starting to look like fall inside of my house. Outside, it's still hitting the mid-90's. I love decorating for fall, it's probably my favorite holiday to decorate the house for. It's so simple and fun. I'd like to print out some cute things to put in frames but I've been slacking. Sooner or later. Hey, I have a almost 2 month old who likes to sleep during the day and stay up all night. BTW, it's 2:30am and I have a wide awake infant. Hoo-ray.

I mentioned in my last post that I moved around the living room. I actually decided to remove the dining room area for the time being and moved my table into the kitchen and eliminated the chalkboard table I made, just for now. You never know what mood I might be in, in the winter.

Fall dacor.


Wide shots of my living room. Feel free to click them for larger shots.



You can view shots of the living room, how it looked before with the dining room combo here.

Little improvements

I know, I've been totally slacking lately with the updates. Sorry! Huge sorry! I guess time just gets away from me. What are ya gonna do? Yanno? It happens.

Warning: Before viewing the pictures below, be aware that I still don't have access to a good working camera. These were taken with my Nokia. View at your own risk. haha ;P

Anyway, enough excuses. I've been pretty busy around here doing things here and there. I recently took down the big ugly fluorescent light that was in between my kitchen & living room. I had been asking Paul to do it since.. I don't know, February to take it down but you know if you want something done right, you might as well just do it yourself. So after months of looking at it, I finally just got it done.

Before... (from when it was Easter time)


And after... from the kitchen side.


& the living room side.


So much better.

We also took a trip to Ikea last week to pick up the dishes I have been impatiently waiting for. I also picked up these Vivan curtains for the front window since we needed something a little more private. If you stand at end of our driveway and look at the front window at night, you could see right in & that is a problem, until now! These curtains are a tad bit thicker & worked perfectly on the privacy issue. I got gray of course, they match my walls perfectly!



I took this picture at night, so it's super dark, but during the day they make the room much darker which is really good for summer because it is hot as hell outside! Keeps the room much cooler.



So you can see how they are hung... behind the pretty sheer curtains. So from the outside, you only see gray, which is fine with me.



My mom and I are going to hem them so that they reach just below the window. I only want the pretty blue & white curtains to be long and flowing. I'm sure months will go by before we actually get this done tho. lol.

Back to the kitchen for a moment. These are the dishes I got. White. Simple. Perfect.



And here they are all cleaned & put away... at the top you can see yellow bowls. I got those two for $1.99 at Ikea. I mean COME ON. I heart Ikea.

I also got yellow place mats for the kitchen table. I love pops of yellow in a room! These were .99 a piece I believe. I'm going to be painting the table black, top of it in chalkboard paint & the bench I'm gonna do a chevron print on. I'm excited to get started on this project VERY soon!



I've also been holding on to these E. A. T. letters since February. Well, I finally got on this project too.



I painted them yellow too! See a trend going here?



Then I picked a place in the kitchen to hang them. Hello lonely wall!



Goodbye lonely wall! Hello happy yellow letters! :)



And a wide shot of everything.



Overall I'm happy about the little improvements made in the last week or so. Doing little things really does make a big impact. I hope to share the finished kitchen within the new month or so. This kitchen redo has taken a lot longer than I'd planned but isn't that always the way it goes? Until next time! <3

so fresh & so clean

Yesterday I finally decided it was time to clean & rearrange the living room. Everything had been in the same spot since I painted, added molding around the windows & bought all brand new everything from Ikea, two months ago. So, it was definitely due. I'm one of those I have to rearrange a room after a certain period of time or I go crazy people. I get it from my mother. But, I'm sure you can tell by all of my rearranging posts, ie: Gracie's room & my bedroom.

I moved the sofa to the window side of the room, flipped the rug (because I think it looks better this way) & swapped the sofa table for the stand that was under the tv before. Both Paul & I like it so much more this way! I don't know why I was so worried I wouldn't.


Can you tell which movie I was watching when I took these pictures? Winner gets a prize. ;)


I didn't really do anything to the dining area, just cleaned it up & added a couple things to the shelves. No big deal.


Check out the view from the door. Since I moved the big Yankee boys art to my bedroom, I had a big blank spot on this wall. The bookshelf & dvd shelf definitely get rid of any awkward open spaces. I like it! I still have plans on painting the dvd shelf black, sometime in the future. It used to belong to my grandmother, I believe.


I got a pretty fun idea last night while Paul & I were watching Midnight in Paris (great movie! Check it out!). I thought it would be fun for you guys to see my point of view. So, as I sat in my usual spot on the sofa, in the corner, I took a couple pictures of my view. :)

Hi Niko!


Wide shot. See that bag? My E.A.T letters are in the bag. A project for the kitchen! You'll see those soon!


And a creeper shot of hubs on the laptop, sitting next to me. He said I couldn't take a full picture of him, so you get his hands... his beautiful hands. hahhhaha He's playing The Sims Social, our favorite Facebook game. :)


Welp. That's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow with my BIRTHDAY POST! I'll be 27 tomorrow! I'll also have pictures of my new haircut. :) Oh yeah, I put up a new layout on Friday night. Whatcha think?

Living Room / Dining Room Remodel

Welp, I finally got my shit together & took pictures of the living room/dining room to share with all of you. I'm currently in the process of doing the kitchen, I only have a few more things to do and it will be finished, oh I cannot wait! Anyway, without further ado, here are the befores & afters.

Mind you, I took these 'before' photos probably 2 years ago, so a lot has come and gone in my living room since then, but the main stuff was the same, like the wall colors, sofa, rug, etc. The TV in the after shots, is the same tv we've had for about 2 years, so that isn't that new. Just wanted to throw that in there.

We also added molding around the windows & new window sills, but you can't really tell. Just know, they are there. I tried taking a before shot of the windows before the molding and sills but it came out too dark.

BEFORE.













The view from the front door, looking in.


AFTER.
(Living Room side/area)









Don't mind Paul's head & my Easter decorations, on the Kitchen side. I'll have a picture post of those next week! :)






The view from the front door, looking in.



(Dining Room side/area)







Shelf details. Yes, that's a picture of my dad flipping off the camera... at my wedding. hahahha He's a firecracker! I loved it so much, I had to frame it. ;P


The little people picture, my mom made for me, after I found something similar on Pinterest & fell in love. It's little people as Map cutouts. The boy is where Paul is from, the girl is where I'm from. I looove it so much. <3



Well, that's it! Feel free to comment & tell me what you think! <3 Feel free to ask questions, I'd love to answer them!

sicky sick.

Welp, I think I really overdid myself on the living room/dining room renovations because yesterday I started feeling myself getting sick, then last night it hit me like a ton of bricks and allll day I've been sneezing and can breathe out of my nose. I've used an entire box of tissues today. It's awful. I feel like complete crap right now. :(

Anyway, with that said, I'll hopefully be back later this week with a room update with some pictures. I'm so in love with my living room/dining room I can't even type it out to completely explain it to you. All I can say is when I walk into my house now my heart feels so big it could explode, with a smile ear to ear. I actually feel like I'm HOME. It's so me. So, Us. Love!

Living Room boom

I've been one busy bee this past week and weekend. Yesterday we went and bought alllll of the new furniture for the living room/dining room area from IKEA. I had so much fun going around picking out everything and having Paul write it all down & then hunting it all down in the warehouse. I also painted an old boring wood cabinet that held all of our wedding goodies and things and omg what a transformation! I can't wait for everything to be painted & put together so I can take pictures of everything & share it with all of you!

If you notice I added a 'rate this post' part at the bottom of my posts so all you lazy daisys who don't like to comment can still put your two cents in by clicking one of the boxes. ;)

I'll be back next week with pictures & a total room update. Until then, stay tuned!

pinsday!

First off, Happy February! :)

I've decided that every Wednesday I'm going share some of my most favorite Pin's from everyone's new addiction, Pinterest! Every week I'll pick a different theme, this weeks theme is Living Rooms. Since, I'll be redesigning my living room from the top down, in the next couple weeks. So yes, this Mama is a tad excited! So to hold me over until my big redo, here are some amazing Living Room's.

This living room is actually where I got my original inspiration to transform my nonfunctional living room into a multifunctional room by adding a dining area. It's by the geniuses over at Young House Love, one of my all time favorite blogs!


I just love all this blue so much! I'm also going to have an accent wall that's blue, where my flat screen will be hanging as well as other decor.


Oh how I love blue & gray mixed together. Another hint of what I'm going for in my new living room. My sofa will be grey with blue & yellow accent pillows. Oh gosh, I can't wait. This living room is just perfection!


Another living room mixed with dining room area. Ugh, I love it! The blues, the greys, the everything. Love!


You can find all of these pin's & more great living room's on my Pinterest! Feel free to follow me, if we share some of the same interests, I'll follow back. :)