Fabric Arrivals

Fabric for our living room and dining room is starting to arrive and I'm so very excited, like cart wheel inducing excited. I just adore fabric, seriously is the best thing since sliced bread. I thought I was pretty settled on what fabric wanted for living room, until I stopped into our local Calico Corners and began to look around. I was just in there to take in all the pretty fabrics and dream of places to use them, not to shop. Well while in there, I accidently fell in love with a Thom Filicia fabric called Griffith Citron. The print reminds me of a abstract birds flying on a bright clear and I'm in love with it.  

 Only two hiccups to me actually buying the fabric. 1. I had to make sure Hasani was OK with the fabric for pillows, he's not into floral prints (accepts them in the dining room) but overall he prefers Ikat and geometric or a basic solid. 2. The price! $44.99 per yard. I'm not one of those people that can have a $100 pillow and be cool with spending that much, bottom line in my world its just a pillow, lol. But after showing him the fabric and he was cool with it. However, I was on a mission NOT to spend $44.99 for one yard. Ebay came to my rescue and I found the exact fabric I was looking for, I got close to two yards of fabric for far less than one yard plus free shipping. So here's the fabric I've been raving about, along with samples of the two other fabrics I recently ordered. 

The floral fabric is called Gazebo Cloud, I ordered 7 yards for fabric from Mary Jo's Cloth Store.  I plan on using 5.5 yards of the fabric for drapes in the dining room and the remaining I'll use for pillows in the living room. I also ordered this pretty chartreuse shade of velvet fabric for pillows from fabric.com. I still want to add in two more geometric prints in our living room, one print for a pillow and the other for drapes.

 I like this Geo Maze fabric from Toni Living for pillows, its a nice smaller scale geometric print that would look nice on a sofa mixed with the above fabrics. 



For living room drapes, I can't decide between these two options. The one below is called Outdoor Secret Garden, I also like it in the lighter silver shade, which might work better. 


The other option is Courtyard Oyster, I love love this print, but I need 5.5 yards of fabric and its $29 per yard. I've been on the lookout for something similar that's a little more budget friendly. After all I already had one fabric splurge in our living room.  


I'm excited to start sewing pillows and drapes for our living room and dining room. Even with the majority of our fabrics picked out, I'm still trying to decide how many pillows of each fabric I'll sew. I got pillow problems. What fabric to you like better for our living room? Have you see the Courtyard Oyster for less elsewhere?
Edit: Please Note I brought my fabric from Etsy Seller RedFinchLane

Drawing Kitchen Ideas

Lately I've been drawing ideas for our home, including furniture layouts, bathroom cabinets ideas and more. Last night I drew a portion of kitchen / dining room area, so I could see a visual of how our view would look from the living room looking into our dining room / kitchen area. I love that since we widened the doorway between the areas, our home will feel much more open. Here's my recent drawing of how I'm picturing a portion of our dining room and kitchen from the living room. 

As I mentioned last week, I'm considering doing a gallery of family pictures for our dining room. I had a fun drawing a mixture of frame sizes for our wall. 

  I always felt that our old door that led to garage was always 'visually heavy' for our small space, so we decided to make a change to the door. Since our new door is now leading to our laundry room instead of the garage we like the idea of doing a frosted glass door with window panes that will let light into both spaces. We think the glass door like the one I drew will look so pretty in our dining / kitchen. I can't wait to have a pair of upper glass cabinets, like we've always planned, for these doors e want to go with solid glass doors. I can't wait to see the transformation of our kitchen in the next couple of months, here's a reminder of how our space currently looks. So happy to have windows in our home again!  

I plan on sharing more of the drawings I've been working on for our home very soon. 

 Do you like doing sketches of your home to help you visualize a space better?