Art
A Massive Wood Picture Ledge for the Living Room!
Last week, we updated you on a little corner of the living room that got a few new accessories and today is what you could call the rest of the story. Some of you even noticed a picture ledge hanging out in a few of those photos. We were waiting to show you some pulled […]
read more
November 6, 2014
Decor
A Little Living Room Refresh
Remember this post when I told you I was going on a purging spree. Oh boy did I ever. We were left with bare floors, bare couches and nearly bare closets. And then there was this post when I professed how bad I was at spending money on accessories when there were so many larger […]
read more
October 28, 2014
Art
Honey, I Blew Up The Kids | Tips for Making Engineer Prints Look Their Best
I mentioned in yesterday's post we were switching some art around in the living room. I purchased a few new prints that I've been eyeing for awhile and we are moving the main art wall to the larger wall behind the couch in the coming weeks. And while I love art, I love our girls […]
read more
October 7, 2014
Decor
Big, New, and Blue in the Living Room
Earlier this week, the new area rug for our living room arrived. You can read more about our decision making process here, but ultimately we went with the 10x14 Baxter area rug from Crate and Barrel in Indigo. And, whew, it has made a really big difference. Here's how things were looking right before we […]
read more
April 3, 2014
Decor
Measuring For A New Area Rug
If you caught yesterday's post, you already know we're wrapping up the floors this week and moving all of our furniture back upstairs on Saturday and we can barely wait! The floors are looking beautiful and are a great launching pad for a lot of the other improvements we want to make in the house […]
read more
March 25, 2014
Decor
The Magazine Rack that Could
Is it completely weird that I have been looking for a magazine rack for over a year? It isn't that magazine racks are difficult to come by, but a good-looking one for a reasonable price, is. Which, sadly, is exactly why I have been storing all my magazines in a basket in the living room. Now, […]
read more
January 16, 2014
Decor
A Passed-Down Piano
This home is full of interesting angles and indents when it comes to the walls, especially in the great room. The wall in the living room (on the opposite side of this wall is the reading room) has been a little tricky. We always thought it would be a prime spot for some bookcases, but […]
read more
January 14, 2014
DIY
A Pop for the Patio Door
Every night, when we're tucking Greta into bed, she usually asks what we are going to do fun the next day. (The girl keeps me on my toes!) A couple nights ago, I wasn't sure. "Um, what do you want to do?" And she said, "I want to go to the store and get paint […]
read more
November 6, 2013
Decor
The Beaumont Coffee Table
It's interesting moving into a new house and trying to make your not-so-old (actually pretty new!) furniture work. Our living room has 99 problems and the coffee table was definitely one. One that we felt like we could address before adding a fireplace and window--which we still hope to do within the year. The coffee […]
read more
October 31, 2013
Decor
Shopping the House for the Living Room
We came to terms with something about our new house this weekend: we just don't have enough stuff to furnish the whole thing right now. Our new house is 1000 more square feet than our last house (which was 1000 more square feet than our apartment before that). When we moved our stuff into this […]
read more
October 7, 2013
Decor
A Guest Book for the Home--Would You?
Chris and I love to have people over a couple times a week. Greta goes to bed pretty early, and Chris will cook up a storm and we'll talk or play games (or watch The Bachelor/ette--guilty!). Since we moved into our house 2+ years ago, we have been brainstorming a way to keep a record […]
read more
June 3, 2013
Decor
Copy-Cat Whitewashed Coffee Table
I've been on the hunt for a coffee table for the living room since we sold our round collapsable one. We've been making due with our plant bench--but it looked a little silly and heavy for a coffee table. I discovered West Elm's Box Frame coffee table and loved the airiness and simplicity, but $350 […]
read more
May 24, 2013
DIY
The Quickest, Easiest Envelope Pillows.
This is, technically, the first pillow cover I've ever made and I'm excited and proud and ready to whip out 5 more, at least. In 8th grade home-ec, a friend of mine finished sewing my pillow project for me while I was absent and I was so grateful. There were so many pieces (three), and […]
read more
May 21, 2013
Decor
Where To Put Curtains On A Window That has An Arch
I found this picture of the living room from exactly one year ago. Crazy, right? The living room just keeps evolving. But today we're specifically talking about those curtains because this window has been a struggle to dress since we moved in. As you can see from the photo above, I felt like the rod […]
read more
May 10, 2013
Art
Burg(h) Art in the Living Room.
A few weeks ago, our DIYed wainscoting (or paneling--whichever!) was featured on Apartment Therapy and one of the commenters mentioned that maybe the grid of pictures competes with the wainscoting wall too much and that it might just be too much geometry. Of course we don't read every suggestion and change our house accordingly. That […]
read more
April 30, 2013
DIY
FAN-tastic!
I have known two people in my life that used the word "fantastic" really frequently and with a lot of enthusiasm and now, when I say, "fantastic"--it's more like, "faaannnntassstic!!!!!!" in their voices which is funny to me, but now I think I might be that person to those who hear me. Anyway, this post […]
read more
April 25, 2013
Decor
The Lily has Landed
What can I say, yesterday was like Christmas. Our countertops arrived--more on that tomorrow, exclamation point--and our new couch arrived. Our "old" one, the Klippan from Ikea, we have had for about two years. Ikea discontinued this longer model and all the slipcovers that accompanied it and we were ready to invest in a higher […]
read more
April 3, 2013
Decor
The Lily and Lessons In Chronic Couch Purchases
We have been married almost 4.5 years and we just bought our sixth couch to replace this one (that is still needing a new home): We knew this Klippan wasn't going to be a forever couch, or even a 10-year couch when we bought it--but I never imagined we would be on number six. Granted, […]
read more
March 12, 2013
Decor
Figuring Out This Fiddle Leaf.
Last August (mmm summertime), we got our hands on a second-hand bench that we cleaned up and stained and it became the hopeful home to four potted plants. Today, one remains--wah wahhhh-- and we moved it to a new home in the kitchen on the upper open shelf. It looks like it is on its […]
read more
January 8, 2013
Lifestyle
Us. The Outtakes.
A big part of our blog redesign, that many of you already commented on, was getting a new photo taken of us for our sidebar and about us page. When I am reading a blog, I really like knowing whom I am reading about. I need a visual. Are you the same? Fortunately, my sister […]
read more
January 3, 2013
