Home Tour: My Living Room

Hello friends, my home tour on my blog is need of an update! I though the easiest and best way to showcase my home tour is sharing my home on the blog room by room, then each week I'll update my house tour page. Make sense?

Every Friday, I'll be sharing rooms in my home. Today, I'm sharing my living room along with how it looked a few short years ago, when we moved back into our home for the second after re-building our home. Below is a link if you're interested in seeing our living room & bad pictures of how our living room looked circa 2009 #mindblown  

 I love seeing how rooms evolve over time. It's amazing to look back at a room and see how much its evolved over time + see ways my personal design style has changed. Below is our living room in late 2013, shortly after moving back in our home.

Below is my living room now. It's so fun to see the evolution of our living room. Pattern drapes have been hung, artwork is on the walls. bookcases flank our dresser turned TV stand. I love how modern + California casual + layered in color & pattern our living room feels. 

Our living room is a mix of old + new. I found the vintage campaign dresser at Antique store and refinished it a glossy white, bought our coffee table via Craigslist (oh how I love CL) and scored our pretty aqua lamp and vintage side table at a Consignment store. 

We have small home and our living room acts as our everything room since our home doesn't have a family. Our living room is where we entertain,have family movie night, play games etc. When designing our living room my goal was to make sure our living room was pretty + functional. Instead of one sofa + two chairs like our previous set-up in our living room before re-building I opted for twin sofas to balance our small living room & provide plenty of seating. Honestly, it was one of the best decisions ever! Plus, I'm a pillow hoarder and twin sofas means lots of pillows of my pillow loving heart. 

To layer in color in our living room, I painted the inside of our front door Elephant Skin by Behr. Seriously, our front door was too pretty to be left white, plus by painting the inside of our front door, I layered in more color. Don't be afraid to paint the inside of your front door, my top suggestions: Black (its always classic) or Grey (its becoming a new classic and not going out of style any time soon) or consider staining the inside of your front door, but don't go too dark.  

I hope you enjoyed the tour of my living room! Next Friday, I'm sharing my dining room. It's come such a long way since moving into our home.

Master Bedroom Design Inspiration

Hello friends! I was hoping my next post about my bedroom would be sharing my drapes and some progress. A few weeks back, I shared my design ideas for my master bedroom and how I envision our space. Then a few things happened 1. I got sick, food poisoning which is no fun and so draining. 2. My sewing machine, decided to act up again. You see less than a year ago I had my Singer Heavy Machine sewing machine  repaired, it cost nearly has much to repair my machine as buying a new one, crazy right. My machine has been having bobbin issues, and after reading 1,000 of new reviews on my sewing machine it seems like everyone has had the same exact issue! So my machine has a serious design flaw, insert my no so happy face. 

I've been in serious debate and research mode, do I  get a new machine? Or do I repair my current one? Which is a lemon. I've decided to purchase a new sewing machine, give it a try and it won't be a Singer. Ok rant over! I'm ordering my new machine today on Amazon and if all goes well. I'll have some master bedroom updates very soon + a How To on the drape style I've decided to sew. 

Until then, these pretty bedrooms have me inspired

image via Studio McGee

image via Studio McGee

image via Mochantini

image via Mochantini

Those pictures have me wanting to get my act together and get my bedroom done so I  can enjoy it and move on to the next project! What projects are you working on that you can't wait to complete, so you can enjoy it?