New Reflection in the Mirror

Thanks everyone! For giving me their opinion about moving our large mirror from our living room and into dining room. As I said before I was nervous is would look to big on our small wall & but up against our light switch. Thankfully, Kasey suggested I use painters tape to make off the measurement of the mirror and see if I like the size of it in the dining room. Here's a reminder how dining room looked. Here's a recap of our dining redo (click here)





That night I used my painters tape and marked off the area and lived with it for a few days. I liked that when we walked into our dining room we would see the reflection of the other side of the dining room and the space would seem much larger, however the mirror has thick heavy molding and I thought it might look odd next to our light switch. So instead of just doing a mirror swap, I also moved the buffet to the other side of the dining room and changed the way the chalk board was hanging.My dining room table got serioulsy messy as I cleaned out our buffet.

I got a little ahead of myself and forgot to take a picture of how the mirror would look on the wall. As you can see, the mirror would have looked to chunky next to our light switch and alarm keypad.


On the other side of the  wall, I used the blue painters tape to map out where the mirror would hang and then placed in on the wall. I love it! Here's the new refelction in our mirror.


Here's how the dining room looks now, when you enter our dining room from the living room.




And a wide shot of the dining room view from the ktichen.


With our large mirror placed in our dining room and the buffet moved, the dining room feels much more open and inviting. I love how the mirror helps bounce the light around in our dining room. I also prefer the buffet under the chalk board.

On a side note, used my two large candles holders as vases and placed yellow flowers in them. I love candle holders & vases that do doulbe duty. Two vases filled with flowers give our dark walnut dining room table a fresh look.

Again thanks for everyone sharing with me thier opinion. How do you think the large mirror looks now that its in our dining room?

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Duvets I'm Considering

Even though I'm not nearly finished with our master bedroom makeover and currently finishing up my sons tween room bedroom, I've been thinking about a new duvet. I love the simplicity of the all white one that's currently on our bed, but I'm also in love with some new ones I recently came across. That's one reason I love duvets, you can switch back in forth between duvets, without having to store a large comforter. Which is a huge plus for my home, since its little. Here's a reminder of how of bedroom currently looks. Our Coverlet is on our bed and the duvet is folded at the end of our bed. 



Here are the duvets I'm considering for our bedroom. I think all the duvets would work well with colors we have in the bedroom, which is important. 

Duvet # 1 
The first duvet is from West Elm, ever since I got my new fall catalog from them I can't stop thinking about this bedding. I plan to stop in there over the weekend and see it person. 



Duvet # 2
I also like this more floral graphic print also from West Elm. I think this would looks really pretty in our bedroom.



Duvet # 3
The last duvet is from Crate & Barrel, I like this duvet again it has a pretty graphic floral print, however I hope the back ground is white and not cream. I'll also stop in Crate & Barrel over the weekend and check this one out. 


Out of the three duvets I'm been drooling thinking about, I really like duvet # 1 - It's simply stated and pretty and will go well with the patterns we already have in our bedroom. I'm not sure how it will look with the Euro Pillow covers I plan on sewing with the fabric below. However I can always make white or blue Euro Pillow covers instead and use this fabric for Mojo's Euro Pillow Dog bed, while his current one is in the laundry. 


Of the three duvets which one do you like? Or should I just stick with our white duvet? 
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