master bedroom inspiration

yes, of course i'm brainstorming. there is always a project in the works--even if it just ideas. i re-rearranged our master bedroom back to its first layout (it makes much more sense the way i had it in the beginning). i liked my bedroom for a hot minute when we first bought everything. i was really feelin' a lavender-white-silver bedroom. it seemed so spa like. but i am really regretting it. also-how did jeremy go along with such a girly room? poor guy. 

anyway, i'm ready to man it up. (with soft colors for femininity, of course). so, i've been pinning ideas for a new master bedroom look and came up with my favorites to try and see what the similarities were between them.

[links can be found on my pinterest board]

 i see blue walls, brown accents, and an upholstered headboard in our future 

(and maybe some pops of orange).

here are some fairly affordable fabric headboards that i'm fond of:

[headboards from target online]

MASTER PLAN:

rip up carpet

paint walls (blue? chocolate? beige?)

paint trim

replace headboard 

new curtains

new (or rehab an old) dresser 

framed art for over bed

side tables (matching?)

maybe add a rug?

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this sounds expensive

kitchen update in the works

i've always got something in works. house painting is still my numero uno, but pinterest has got me dreaming of a clean, white kitchen. 

[image via here]

and to convice myself that black appliances will, in fact, look good with white cabinets:

[image via here]

so here is my list in no particular order:

• pry ugly tile off all walls (backsplash on both sides, and wall to garage)
• prep walls behind counter for new tile
• tile backsplash (white subway tile)
• prep wall to garage for paint
• paint accent wall ^ (blue?)
• take off all cabinet doors & remove hinges/pulls
• fill in all holes from old hinges/pulls/new cabinets and fill 
• prime cabinets and doors
• paint cabinets and doors (uppers white, lowers grey)
• flip cabinet doors for more streamlined look
• change cabinet pulls above dishwasher to open toward each other _-||-_
• remove wood from cabinets above dishwasher 
• replace wood with 2 glass panels
• add electrical outlet to sink side of kitchen cabinet uppers
• add lights above cabinets
• replace counter 
• remove scallop from over sink area

it's fall, ya'll

fall decorating around the laws house. (top left-flowers from j for our 1 year anniversary)

happy fall!

slow backyard progress

last time i checked, my backyard looked something like this. eek!

 but when i went to check on it a few minutes later..

those scraggly weeds turned into trees! we couldn't even see out the [only] living room window. 

so i bought a handsaw for about nine bucks and put some good old-fashioned elbow grease into it. 

in about 45 minutes (spread out across two afternoons--yowza, it was a workout!) 

i could see the house!!!

 and out the window!!

what a difference!! although, seeing the house means we can see how badly the house needs painting. uh-oh. but, that's okay. painting the exterior is next on our list!!!! i'm so excited! 

sidenote: when i painted those swatches next to our new yellow front door, i picked the dark grey and then threw away the swatch. so we've settled (again) on a grey. this time--a similar color called Dark Granite by Behr

cheap sentimental art

my parents are moving into an apartment as part of their relocation to tulsa, and so mom is taking some of her decor that she so nicely let me use for the past few years. so, to replace some wall hangings, i decided to create my own cheap-o art. i already had a few (5!) blank canvases lying around so i decided to craft something simple and sentimental. 

first i printed out numbers that meant something to jeremy and me. (our wedding was october 6th). 

i cut out the numbers and traced them onto the canvases using a ruler for centering--although i eyeballed them for horizontal center. 

then i painted them with some acylic paint i had on hand. i only keep primary colors + white and black to make my own colors. for this project i went with blue and black to go with my dark blue entryway wall. 

blank:

mom's box wreaths:

ta-da: 

i actually am really diggin' them. they mimic  the white in the beadboard & brighten up the wall.

carpet nix: part deux

we decided to keep going on out carpet elimination

 extravaganza and continued on into the office. 

the beautiful before. (don't let her fool you, there must be some camera trick happening in this picture--the carpet needed yanking out bad).

 a little elbow grease and a gallon of paint later: 

a beautiful, clean office floor.