You may have noticed the blog has recently gone under a re-design, and I'm thrilled with it's new look! My new blog re-design feels so me! I love that its fun, modern, clean design with plenty of visual interest with colors I already adore. I'm so thankful my blog re-design now reflects my blog Chic Little House, and how I'm feeling when I look at my new blog design and style I can't help but smile. My much needed blog re-design was designed by the lovely Latoya, blogger of A Peaceful Crib & designer of Latoya Monique Designs. I've always adored Latoya's own blog designs so it was a natural that reached out her to re-design Chic Little House. I love that this blog re-design was a collaborative experience, between her and I. Latoya was patient in answering all my questions and most importantly saw the vision & style I wanted for my blog.
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I invite you have a look around, we've made some changes to Chic Little House. On the side bar you'll notice social icon links to the social media I'm on: Twitter, Pinterest, Instragram and a email link. Also on the side bar is a link to our DIY Projects, Recipes and Our Home. My goal is to make Chic Little House more user friendly, so its easier to find our DIY projects, How To's and much more. Recently I've fallen in love with baking yummy treats for my family on the new recipe page you'll find links to all my recent baking adventures.

The DIY Projects page has also gone under a makeover, projects we've completed around or house is now broken up into categories making them much easier to find: Painting Projects, Outdoor Projects, Sewing Projects and How To I'm in the process of linking every project listed on the DIY Project Page.

In the next couple of weeks I'll be adding to additional pages to the tool bar, one will be about our home re-building project and the other will be focused on ideas. For instance I just started a new lighting ideas series on the blog in an effort to help narrow down our lighting ideas for our home. One the new ideas page is 'live' it will easier to reference back to various ideas and mood boards I've created.

I hope you like the new look of Chic Little House! Thanks again Latoya, it was great working with on my blog re-design.

We have a lot of light fixtures to buy for our house inside and out, which is exciting and scary because I'm used to doing it one room at a time. Which met I could hunt for the perfect light fixture I felt was right for our space and not worry about a timeline. Just like a pillows can help transform a ho-hum sofa into a showstopper that's how I feel about lighting, it can quickly improve the look of the room. It did just that in our dining room

So in an effort to just cave in and stick up boob lights all over our house and you know I loathe those (now I get why they are so popular with contractors, lol). I decided to start a little lighting series that will help us narrow down the lighting choices for our home. I've already shared the gorgeous peacock blue gourd lamps I picked up for a steal at a local consignment store, read about them here that we plan on using in our living room. Now I'm on the look out for an amazing overhead lighting for our living room. We plan on doing recessed lighting, and also a main light source in our living room to create a balance of overhead lighting. Here's the lighting we are considering for our main light source.

1. Lighting Universe 2. Lighting Universe 3. Lamps Plus 4. Lamps Plus 5. Overstock

All the lighting we are considering for our living room, will be close to the ceiling. I love the look of each variation of the drum shade style. I like how some of the lighting we are considering is simple, like 1 & 3. While I like simple I'm digging the look the suitable look of glam in 2, 4 & 5. The pretty crystal finial in fixture 2 has me swooning, and I love the chrome finial in 4. While looking for lighting, I also came across this beauty its way out of our lighting budget for the living room but its amazing! It's Tiffany Glass stained, not something I'd normally fall for, but for some reason I can so picture it in our living room, I'm hoping it goes on a super clearance in the next few months. A girl can dream right?