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Home inspiration: pom poms
Hejsan! Anyone who saw my post on Friday will know that I'm currently on a fly-by tour of Asia. OK it's for work, but I've still absolutely loved my past couple of days in Tokyo. The city is beyond belief and I simply can't believe how stylish and graceful all the women are. I feel a little like the incredible hulk in comparison! I thought about creating a Japanese inspired post today but sadly I don't have the time so I thought I'd have an Asia inspired week next week (including a small give-away of something I picked up in Tokyo! Ooooo!). Instead I'm going to cheat a little and publish a post about pom poms I made last week (hope you dont mind but they are rather lovely...). I absolutely love pom poms right now and they're popping up everywhere in the home.....
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| Etsy |
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| Pinterest (sorry!!! can anyone help?) |
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| Via Covet Garden |
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| Bodie and Fou |
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| Weekday Carnival |
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What do you reckon? Are you a pom pom gal/boy?! If you're feeling crafty you can make your own ones here. Of for the more, um, time deprived?! you can buy beautiful ones on Etsy here.
I'll be back again on Wednesday so sit tight and have a lovely couple of days!
YOU SERVED US WELL...
Crazy as it may sound, we are finally retiring our couch...
Why crazy?
Well, we've had this couch for about twenty one years...
Yep, we've had the same couch for that long. Multiple slip~covers over the years of course...
I've been holding out for my dream couch...
A Pottery Barn slip~covered couch in white twill.
Meet my new couch.
Of course, it inspired a zhush of the room... The chairs now cozy up to the fireplace...
I like the angle of the couch I think. It makes the room less of a bowling alley if you will.
Now I've got my eye on those chairs...
sunroom redesign
I had the sweetest girl contact me to decorate her sunroom. She was so easy to work with, and let me do pretty much anything I wanted. Those are always the best clients. :) But seriously, she was awesome and such a pleasure to work with.
She owns an awesome condo in Arlington. It is such a cool and modern condo with gray walls (revere pewter benjamin moore...a personal fav) and lots of white and chocolate brown. She already had some of my favorite colors as a base. It just a needed a few pops of color throughout her space. I really just was hired to do the sunroon, but we tweaked one other little spot in her condo.
She emailed me asking me to help her with her sunroom because of it's awkward shape. When I saw her space, it all made sense because it really was a challenging shape to do anything with. So, what is now her sunroom used to be a screened in patio. Most of the buidlings in Arlington are old, so when they renovated, they decided to do away with the screened in patio, and make it a sunroom. When I heard that, the shape of the room made sense to me!
Here is the "before picture." Again, with the shape of the space, I couldn't get a picture of the whole room. This is the left side of the room.........
BEFORE...
AFTER...
So, if you go back up to the first Before picture, you can see that as you enter the sunroom, there is this kind of dead space to your left. There is a wall, and that corner is so small and narrow, that you really can't do anything with it. That's why I had her move the armoire because it's kind of hidden back there and you can't see it when you walk past the room, but only see it when you enter the sunroom. (hope that makes sense) There were 6 huge windows, so the armoire is actually blocking 2 of the windows, but I wanted it to appear that that was just a wall, not covering 2 windows. But there is so much light in there that you don't need those 2 extra windows.
On that long wall where the armoire was, I had my client get a dresser from Ikea (the Malm) dresser and place it there. It fits better against that long wall. Then I bought a fun starburst mirror, 2 green glass lamps with a linen shade, (I'm obsessed with these. I bought them for myself and another client's dining room. I love them!!) some frames, coffee table books, and a piece of modern coral with a chrystal base for the top! So now, her space is a little "coastal meets contemporary."
Another before.....
After...
Also, the length of her wall was 162 inches and I knew that I wanted a curtain rod to go the length of the room. I could not find a curtain rod that went longer than 144 inchess. I'm pretty sure that is the longest they make. So what I did was I bought 2 curtain rods, removed the finials from each end of one, and then brad screwed them together. But I liked the look of the curtains high and above the windows as opposed to in the windows. You can't tell, but the windows are inset about 5 inches.
I also cleaned up the inside of the armoire. I kept her sentimental things like chrystal pieces from her grandma, along with a picture of her grandparents. Then I added some white pieces so they would stand out next to the black. Here is the room one more time....
Summer Decor
School is out and summer is here! This is one of my favorite times of the year! I love having my boys home with me all day.
I added a few accent pieces to my everyday decor to summerize our home. I love how everything came together.
I moved my gameboard to the living area and just love the pop of color it brings along our neutral stone wall. I made the gameboard all by hand, no stencils. It took a lot of patients, time and love making it. But it was well worth it. :)
I love my Americana bowl. It's big and heavy!
I just love filling my home with old treasures. The molding is from one of my favorite local stores, Simply Bungalow. I got a box of blue mason jars for $5. So I have them scattered throughout the house.
More old and handmade treasures.
The first and only time I saw the ocean was about 10 years ago at Monterey Bay, CA. What a beautiful place! I picked up this small lighthouse. It brings back memories and I hope to see the ocean again soon. I remind my hubby almost daily that I want to go on a beachy vacation... :)
More blue jars...my mom made the old beadboard box with dried lavendar.
I love a great bargain! I got the black basket for $1 and old picnic basket for $1 at past garage sales. And the watermelon I made from a piece of a tree trunk I got from the neighbor.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate all your comments and emails!
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What a week! Things here are busy. On top of some great projects I am currently working on, having only a couple of weeks to pull a whole nursery together for the St. Vincent's Nursery Giveaway has been a challenge. Albeit, a really, really fun challenge I am so happy to be a part of. Next week is the big reveal but this week viewers of Talk of Alabama got a peek at some behind the scenes shopping...
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