Bedroom Breakthrough (no, not like that you sicko!)

I've kind of been boycotting blogging last week (as you may have noticed) but I decided to give these ole fingers some exercise tonight.


I saw this picture tonight on Pinterest (btw, if you haven't signed up, you should.  It's all my mom and I can seem to talk about when we get together. "Did you see that picture of that sequined wedding dress?"…."YES! And did you see that picture of the salted caramel frosting?".)

So back to this picture ... it hit me like a ton of bricks.  Yeah it's pretty, but the northern hemisphere of this photo is what got me. I've been trying to re-do my master bedroom and hit a bit of a roadblock while trying to pick the perfect wallpaper.  I've started to re-energize the project, being close to sure about a wallpaper finally and just bought some new mirrored chests for beside my bed and put some rectangle mirrors up on the wall behind the chest to really amplify the light; and purchased a new focal light fixture for the ceiling.  I had been at a total loss as to what to put on the wall above my bed because nothing seemed to make sense with it being blocked in on either side by mirrors.  See idea board below.

Don't judge [yet].  I haven't settled on a wallpaper and I definitely haven't dressed the bed how I plan to. This is just to give you a frame of reference.

So, I think the headboard solves the problem.   My current headboard is a camel-back.   If I just bump it up a little higher on the wall OR make the shape more pronounced, I can get away with not having ANYTHING on the wall above my bed.   Problem solved.   Now to settle the wallpaper debate, for real, and to find a new fabric to recover my headboard with! 


What rooms are you working on right now?


-Bethany 

Tick Tock & You Don't Stop

If a watched pot never boils, does that mean a tracked package will never arrive?

I ordered two linen panels (featured below) from West Elm for my home office mini--redo. When they arrived the color was too light for what I had envisioned. Drat! So instead of sending them back they found a new home in my living room, where I’ve got them layered over Restoration Hardware’s open-weave burlap drapes. Yum!! Even the hubby liked it. But of course this meant that I was missing on panel for the second window in the room and I’m wishing the it would arrive immediately. Seriously… like, right now.

- Kate

Home Wasn't Build In A Day: Office, Part I

So I come to you, hanging my head in shame, with this admission and photos of the disaster that my life has become. Those of you who follow us on facebook may have noticed a trend of bitching from me about the unsettled state of my home décor. Well… it’s not even just the décor. If I’m gonna be completely honest I’ve been living like a slob. My husband has been putting up with this from me (lately) and I of him and now it’s time to do one of my favorite things – create some rules on how to get back on track (Bethany, please stop laughing at me!).

Exhibit A. Red = slobtasticness

We’ve been in our 945 sqft house for 6-years and we bought it as a real fixer upper (I’ll share pics with you in future posts to illustrate the understatement that this is). Like most first-time home buyers we were eager to fix things up to create a place that felt like ours. While we definitely jumped in head-first, over the past year my interest and our time to redo just hasn’t been there. But as I look through all our favorite blogs (see list to the right) I’m feeling inspired and shamed into finishing what we started.

So where to begin? Our home office. This space serves double duty as my hubby’s office, where he thought he’d be running the admin side of his music career (this is actually done from the living room couch); this is also my office, where I manage the household stuff, surf the web and blog. There’s a lot of other hodgepodge in here because, after all, it’s a small house and every room does a bit of multitasking. After a few months of life being turned up-side-down by a family tragedy and packing for a 4th of July trip that turned the man-of-the-house into the incredible hulk (he straight up trashed this room trying to get a suitcase out of the closet to the point of requiring paint touch ups)… oh and the universe's my tendency towards chaos – I give you exhibit B and C

Exhibit B. Hell

Exhibit C. Hell from another view

And now I’m officially kicking off my "Home Wasn't Built In A Day" series so I can share with you the dumbness that I’ve created and hopefully the amazeballs house we (the man and I, not you and me) talked about for years. This inaugural mission has an August 1st deadline… for those of you still reading this that means just over two weeks. I’ve got everything from paint touchups to replacing a door on my task list so this may be aggressive.

Let the obsessing begin.
- Kate

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KEEPING IT REAL [7/25]
I am sooooo behind. I've got this room all cleaned up but have yet to make any noticable updates beyond that. Hmmm... need to get this done.