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Coffee Tables and Ottomans are Not Created Equal
One thing on this week's agenda is to finish up our family room and finally do a full-reveal/budget breakdown. We have been on a slight hiatus from the project (doesn't that always happen near the end?) as we turned our attention to the studio (which we are also capping off this week) and our month-long […]
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June 18, 2012
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Making Music
In addition to tackling the dining room nook, I also helped Aaron and Heather out with their music room (sorry folks, the living room is gonna have to wait until my next trip). Their music room is the first room to the right of the front door. In most homes, this would be the office […]
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June 14, 2012
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Happy(?) Yellow
In the last installment of our "Readers' Choice" game, we allowed you to choose the paint color for the desk lamp in the studio--I was happy to hear a lot of cheers for chartreuse and yellow. That is the way I was leaning. One particular reader shouted, "Gold!" I can't tell you how much I […]
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June 5, 2012
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Semiflush Drum for the Win
I love looking at before pictures of spaces in my house. It is quite amazing how a room can look so bad. And although the carousel horses stenciled around the borders and the circus valence may have you mesmerized, don't forget to get a good look at the previous light fixture: Because, like most of […]
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June 4, 2012
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Reader's Choice: To Pop or Not, That is the Question
Once upon a time, my studio desk had a great task lamp attached to it, and it has disappeared. Which could be a sad tale, but I found this great lamp in the as-is section at Ikea and it was a perfect replacement. It has a super heavy base on it, so I don't have […]
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May 31, 2012
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From Terrible to Sterile to I-Can't-Look-Away-Stunning!
After painting the walls, ceiling, and floor of the studio--and living with it all for a week or so, it all started to feel a little sterile. I waited anxiously for the floor to cure up so that I could hang some curtains and lay our flooring. Don't get me wrong, I'd take sterile over […]
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May 29, 2012
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New Lamp Love
Last week, I quickly relayed that the living room didn't really look like this anymore: And that a lamp had been purchased to replace those two black floor lamps flanking the couch. You see, originally we had planned to have a big arc floor lamp in the family room. I even included one in the […]
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May 16, 2012
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Reader's Choice: Curtain Call!
Today's poll will be the icing on the studio's cake. In this crazy turn of events, we have allowed you readers to design my new art studio. You have voted on color scheme, ceiling color, area rug and lighting and now we turn our attention to curtains. The old nursery-turned-studio has a large window on […]
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May 14, 2012
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Room Swaps
It's almost a joke to bring a third room into the equation when we are knee deep in a studio renovation and at the tail end of the family room renovation--but the living room has been stripped of a few items that has forced our attention. You know I love a little Spring tweaking anyway. Our […]
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May 10, 2012
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Reader's Choice: This Little Light of Mine
Our area rug poll has crowned a victor! Roadside Attraction got the most votes and will be hanging out in the studio with me. I was originally pulling for the Sophistikat option, but in the end--I feel good about the great texture of the Roadside Attraction carpet tiles and can't wait for them to get […]
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May 8, 2012
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Our Love, Our Lounge
This weekend we really, REALLY weekended (it's a verb now). With the arrival of our new couch that we ordered months ago, we decided to take it for a major test drive. For the first time in 3 and a half months--we sat on a couch and watched television. Of course not alllll weekend--but […]
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May 7, 2012
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Pretty Couches and almost Not Couch-less
Thanks for excusing my absence yesterday. We have had a few set backs this week--all three members of our little family got the flu. When it came and went with Greta on Monday, we thought we escaped it. Oh no. Wednesday night, it hit me hard and Chris followed suit shortly after. Thank goodness it […]
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May 4, 2012
