Decor
The Fallification of the Living Room and Ramblings
First. I can't type another word without thanking you all for the sweet health-filled wishes. I am on the mend and yesterday, our anniversary, I was able to spend some real time up and out. We went shopping as a little family and had fun playing with Greta. Somehow I even found myself on a […]
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November 9, 2012
DIY
Our Dark DIYed Wainscoting Reveal
Our DIYed full-wall wainscoting is done, and on time! As Chris and I were talking about the entire project, we were so pleasantly surprised with how fast it went. We dedicated a couple hours to it on Monday and Tuesday night and then yesterday, I sanded and painted and it was done before Chris got […]
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October 25, 2012
DIY
Full-Wall Wainscot Part II
I am going to attempt to make this a quick post so I can try to get more of this paneling painted before Greta wakes up from her nap. It's always a race against nap time over here, I tell ya. Yesterday, we left you with our baseball-hall-of-fame-esque paneling. Last night we continued the quicky […]
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October 24, 2012
DIY
We're Doing It!
Yesterday I mentioned we had one more quicky project up our sleeves before our party this weekend. Earlier this month, we hinted we were planning on hanging a gallery wall above the couch and I had started laying out a template: Scratch that. I take it back. For the record, I actually did get a […]
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October 23, 2012
Inspiration
A Colorful Couch--Would You?
Our hunt has officially begun for a new sofa for the living room. We always knew the Klippan was temporary. We had just bought a house and had next to no furniture, so shelling out $400 for a couch that took up a lot of room was just what we needed then. Now, we are […]
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October 9, 2012
Decor
This Little Couch of Ours
Our Ikea Klippan 4-seater couch is turning out to be not quite the easy-peasy couch we thought it was when we bought it last year. Granted, it was only $400, which is in no way pocket change, but for a 4-person couch. It doesn't get much cheaper. In that $400, was also included a white […]
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October 8, 2012
DIY
The End is Near
We had an okay weekend over here. Greta was under the weather on Friday. Then I was feeling crummy on Saturday and Sunday and poof, there goes the weekend. But it is a new day and a new week and we gots stuff to do! This week, the name of the game is finish the […]
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October 1, 2012
Decor
Our Styled Credenza: Industrial-chic Meets Dia de los Muertos.
We're back, as promised, to share all of the final details that went into above and on our DIYed fauxdenza. Styling is always so fun. Especially when it is a surface that can be styled and re-styled with changing seasons. Last night, we got the base of the styling done. The lamps installed (more on […]
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September 27, 2012
DIY
Fauxdenza Crendenza!
Two weeks ago, we shared part one of our new "fauxdenza" in the living room made of 3 Akrum wall cabinets from Ikea floating a few inches above the floor. It was a great solution to a large credenza for hundreds (in some cases, thousands) less. But the white cabinets alone, left a lot […]
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September 26, 2012
Decor
Our $50 Quirky Cool Coffee Table Find
Remember how I had been diligently scouring the online classifieds for a credenza for the living room with no luck? Well, I have been doing the same thing looking for a coffee table. Except this time, I did have luck. Woot! I forgot to take a screenshot of the ad before it was sold (to […]
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September 17, 2012
DIY
About Those Kitchen Cabinets We Bought
Can I just start by saying, thanks for all your feedback on our "his chair" post. I spent some time rearranging things, swapping sides and eventually just put him and her next to each other with Chris's djembe in the middle to act as a little side table and I think we like this arrangement […]
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September 12, 2012
Decor
The "His" Chair is Here
Last week, I mentioned we found a his chair for our her chair in the living room. A lot of you had fun guessing which one we went with--which seemed to be overwhelming for number 6: How do I say this? Wah Wahhhhh. Wrong. Most of the chairs in our round-up we were able to […]
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September 10, 2012
Decor
The HER Chair
You may remember back in this post, when our new jute rug arrived, that we decided our matching armchairs matched more than each other a little too well. Our living room became a sea of beige. So, we decided to sell them (we actually won a gift card to purchase these chairs 2 years ago, […]
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August 31, 2012
Decor
The Slipcover Blues
Just so you know, this post doesn't end well. You see, our Klippan 4-seater couch from Ikea used to have a white cover on it--the one we purchased with it when we bought the couch last year. In less than a year, the cover had rips and tears in it that appeared after washes, so […]
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August 21, 2012
Decor
Beut Jute Riot
(riot!) Yes, that was an attempt at a 90s Cherry Poppin' Daddies reference. After we purged almost everything in the living room and painted it a dark, moody charcoal with navy undertones (Kwal's Crave), things were looking better, but there was a lot missing. To be completely honest, I was getting used to our airy […]
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August 15, 2012
Inspiration
The Decomposition of Our Living Room.
Believe it or not, there was a time when we were actually content with the way our living room was looking. That time was last year when it looked like this: Since then, pillows have scattered themselves to other areas of the house, the ottomans got stained and buttons were ripped off, the couch cover […]
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August 2, 2012
Decor
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
