Friday, January 27, 2012

Home Sweet Home-Bedroom Reveal

As most of you know, our oldest just recently graduated from college.  While she has been living away from home since her freshmen year, most recently in her own apartment, she does keep a room at home for the occassional visit.

We have filled her room at home with many wonderful memories from her childhood and teen years...lots of figure skating awards and medals, and all her high school cheerleading awards and pictures along with her yearbooks.  You get a sense of who she is just by being in the room.

I have always loved blue and white, and she is a fan of pink.  So, we combined the two and couldn't be more pleased with how it turned out.


Bedding-Ralph Lauren, navy pillows-Target, pink pillow-Ralph Lauren/Home Goods, lamp and navy shade-Target, side table-IKEA



Vintage dresser we painted-knobs are from Hobby Lobby, tray and mirror-Southern Living at Home, skating medals and awards.


Chair-IKEA ektorp, pillow-Target



Vintage bookcase-belonged to my grandparents
The wall opposite her bed has another dresser we purchased at IKEA along with her flat screen tv, but I figured you all know what a TV looks like!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Media Room~

I realized I had never shared pictures of this room on my blog before.  This room once belonged to our oldest, her first room in our home.  She has since switched rooms two more times-once to the larger room over our garage, and now she resides (when home visiting) in her sister's old room at the back of the house.

We decided to turn this room into a media room when she moved to the larger room.  We had not finished our basement at the time, and we needed a place where they could watch a movie or play video games with their friends.  Since it is right above our home office, close to the front staircase, and where we could keep an eye on things (yes, we have two teen girls who had/have boyfriends)...it was the perfect room. And, the girls bath is adjacent to it making it even better.  Of course, now they have the basement so dad and I can retreat to this room for some quiet!

The room originally housed our PB seagrasss chairs that now reside in our library.  Kids said they weren't comfy (dad said, exactly, LOL).  But, when we changed up our home office we decided to move the couch upstairs to that room and bring the seagrass chairs down to the library.  Several other pieces in the room have found new homes from other areas in our home as well.  The room came together nicely considering we pieced it together (with the exception of the tv console) from pieces we already owned.

View from doorway (the door sits at an angle).

View from our girls' bathroom.

View to left of the girls' bathroom door (you can catch just a glimpse of it on the far right).
Console table-was originally in our family room.
Library table-originally in our library (pre-bookcases).

The more comfy loveseat.  The double doors to the closet.  Need to work on that now that all of our dvds/games and such are located in the basement.  Love extra closet space!!  The two iron tray tables are great for pulling up to the couch for snacks or to set a drink on.



Hoping to show off some more rooms later this week!

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Quality Thoughts for Tuesday~



Hi Everyone!

How has your week been going?  Yes, I know, it is only Tuesday.  We are regrouping in our household.  We no sooner got back on track after the holidays only to be derailed by sickness.  Both hubby and the youngest are finally on the mend.

Of course, that meant mom's schedule got interrupted.  So, I have yet to finish the library revamp!  Thanks for all your sweet comments regarding the new pillows I got at Target. Hoping to get it finished this week, but our bi-monthly deep clean is calling my name!

I will leave you with this week's Qualilty Thought for Tuesday...

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.


Tony Robbins