I'm back!!... Our Home...

I have been very busy and heavily slacking on my blogging!! It seems like I blog in spurts! I am going to try harder to blog more regularly! I promise! Side note: I have no clue to moms who have a full time job in/out of the house blog, take care of themselves and their families! I may need to improve my time management skills!

On a different note! We are almost done furnishing our home, except for my dining room chairs that have yet to come in, the coffee table  have yet to order and the MANY accessories I feel like we need for our home! When does the task of decorating your home ever end?? I have blogged a few photos (not very good quality! I need to add a new camera to my "List of Things to Purchase for our Home") of our home here. I have of course changed a few things around since I posted those photos.

I am anxiously waiting the day that our home looks "Finished" like the rooms in the photos below!

 

 

I have no clue where this photo came from... If you know, fill me in, please/

This could perhaps be our Master Bedroom. (I really thought I posted a photo of our Master Bedroom when I posted photos of our home earlier on my blog, but I guess not.) (Note to self: Take new photos of our home to post on my blog that I am going to regularly update.) I love the neutral background for this room, with punches of color in the sofa and rug. We need more color in our bedroom!! Imagine dark wood floors (I have not purchased any rugs yet for our room), all dark wood furniture (except for our bed which is from Pier1 circa 2003), and this bedding...

 

 

Restoration Hardware

Our bedroom is probably the most boringly neutral room in our house and definitely needs some color! That was a long rant about our bedroom... I know, but something needs to be done about it!

This could be our office... which right now only houses a desk and an armoire. (That I am trying to sell on Craigslist, that only scammers are attracted to!)

 

 

House Beautiful

Cottage Living

 All of this furniture would not fit in our tiny office, which also needs to double as an additional guest room. However, imagine a desk on one

 

 

Matters of Style

Or this instead of a desk... I'm leaning towards this, but we already have a functioning desk in there. One step at a time Emily...

Our guest bedroom looks very similar to this room...

 

 

Pink Wallpaper

However, our guest room does not seem very warm to me like the one in this photo does. (I really need to post photos so you can judge for yourself.)

We will leave it at the bedrooms today... Our front living room is almost 'complete' and our dining room is waiting on it's chairs to be delivered to become finished...

Our kitchen and back living room are another story... Be back soon with more photos of our home!

Happy Friday!!

'Mad' Apartment in NY

This apartment by Miles Redd is AMAZING.His wonderfully crazy ideas make this apartment super stylish. If you like the shape of a piece, but not the style or color, you can always adapt it to make it what you want. Also, adding a little color to a traditional piece makes them more modern. You can get more information on this apartment at House Beautiful.

Redd really knows what makes a room or space special. He says in House Beautiful, "When someone understands how to live and how to arrange a room, and everywhere you look there is something beautiful, [that's what makes a room luxurious.] When it has a sense of drama — a cinematic quality — and you want to spend time in it."

House Beautiful

Guest Bedroom

We have a 3 bedroom house & one of our bedrooms is COMPLETELY empty!! I will soon have my grandmother's desk and a twin bed that she had when she was little to outfit the room. However, I am stuck on the style that I want the room to have. It will be used as an office & an additional guest space. What do you think about these ideas?

Country Living

Love the gray bed skirt with white linen. Since the bed I am getting is all wood, I could simply add light blue or even navy euro pillow.

House Beautiful

I love this bedroom! However, this may look better in our master bedroom...

Southern Accents

Love this! Looks a little too much like our other guest bedroom. (I am going to have to get to work posting some photos.)

 

Traditional Home

 Since I want the bed to be used as a day bed, the look of this lounger gives me ideas on how to arrange my pillows.

Now to find inspiration for the office side of the room. I'll post photos of the room when it takes shape!

New Orleans Cottage

I get inspiration every day from various places, websites, shelter magazine, other blogs, and day-to-day life. I collect inspirations that I love and if they are online I email them to myself. Well... I have discovered that I love almost every room in the Cottage Living Idea House in New Orleans. After viewing this New Orleans cottage, I was looking through my design inspirations archive and found almost room in this home.

This cottage's shotgun style is the most popular building style in New Orleans. You can find homes like this in almost every neighborhood or area. I can definitely see soon space issues popping up when thinking about designing a home with this type of layout.

Classic, timeless and elegant... everything I love combined into the parlor. I love the neutral color palette! Change a view accessories around and it looks like you have a brand new room.

Tall ceilings and bookcases make the parlor a winner. Hanging a portrait on the bookcase gives the space added interest.

Find things you love. It does not matter what style they are. Modern and classic elements in the same room add interest to a space.

Quirky details like the wall-mounted faucet and a modern sink make this powder room unique.

The first thing in this room that caught my eyes were the gas lantern ceiling fixtures. Gas lanterns as symbolic to the New Orleans as shot gun houses are.

Formal an informal all in one kitchen. The antique bench dresses down and adds character to this otherwise formal space.

  

This one-of-a-kind pantry is a surprise element in the kitchen. Talk about adding character to a space!

This office appears to be the hub of day to day life. I wouldn't mind handling the bills and other paper work if this was my office.

The master bedroom looks so cozy designers Ann and Jane Dupuy used marine rope and grommets to attach a tailored canopy to the four-poster iron bed.

The fire place in the master bedroom is a decorative salvaged piece, but still puts off warmth. It makes me want to curl up in one of the over-stuffed arm chairs and read a good book! 

The master closet has to be hands down my favorite room in the entire cottage. I would never leave this boudoir because of the patterned wallpaper and crystal chandelier.

The guest room / study looks like it belongs in a completely different home, yet with all of the attention to detail it completely belongs in this home.

With a back porch like this, who needs to go inside? You would have a hard time convincing me to get up and walk inside to see the rest of this gorgeous cottage.

Design Inspirations

We just purchased a new home in December of this past year. It's a work in progress to say the least! We re-finished our over 50 year old floors, painted all of the rooms, and are purchasing items to furnish our home. I've been told that this is a never ending process... I have found several inspirations for our home that I love...

Some favorite bedroom design inspirations that I found this week....



House Beautiful



I love that the main (large & expensive) items in the room are very neutral, classic & timeless. Add a splash of color and voila! You can change out the accessories in this room depending what the color you like at the time.

Elle Decor

Something about this room makes me fall in love with it over and over again! I'm a sucker for monograms and love the pillow shams! I'll have to purchase some from Leontine Linens.

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I love the cleanliness and simplicity in these two rooms. (The top one may be perfect for our guest bedroom!)

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This is a really great bedroom for a child. I really like the colors that were incorporated into this room!

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The rich navy of the walls, the masculinity of the over-sized armoire, and the beautiful dark wood floors look great together! Brighten the room with a crisp, clean white duvet and floral throw pillows and you have the perfect balance of femininity and masculinity.