Teen Glam

After we completed the edesign for her guest bedroom my client I mentioned yesterday wanted to move on to her teen daughter's bedroom.  She wanted it to be glamorous but also a little edgy.  The inspiration for this room stemmed from a fabulous duvet she scored from Target's oh so popular Missoni Collection.  

sadly it's no longer available but check out these clearanced options here.

We mixed grays and, blacks to keep things grounded and a little more edgy, with pops of hot pink and mustard.  I love this color combination.  In fact, if my hubby weren't opposed (which I'm sure he is) I would be tempted to add pops of hot pink to our master bedroom.  Anyways, onto the design board...

We tweaked it a little by adding mirrored side tables and more sophisticated lamps at the client's request

I think it's so great that she wanted to do this for her daughter.  I would have loved this room as a teen, heck I would love it even now! :)

Interested in edesign services?  contact me at dwellingsbydevore(at)gmail(dot)com for pricing and additional information

edesign

My edesigns have been keeping me busy lately.  This client wanted to redo her guest bedroom without spending a fortune.  Since it was going to be used for guests we chose a gender neutral color scheme that would work with some of the existing pieces she already had in the room.  The inspiration piece for this room was the beautiful lamps.  I knew they were right the moment I saw them and thankfully my client loved them too. 

(as a courtesy to my paying clients I do not share sources for my edesign boards)

Check back tomorrow for the design board we did for her teen daughter's bedroom!

interested in edesign? contact me at dwellingsbydevore(at)gmail(dot)com for pricing and additional information

Sparkle

I wanted to add a little sparkle in the nursery while still keeping things classy.  I wasn't sure exactly where I wanted to add the pop of sparkle until I found this pillow at Marshall's.  It was the perfect size and color and just the amount of glamour the nursery needed.  I think baby girl is going to love it, after all what girl doesn't love some bling!

Crib

We are still making progress in the nursery.  In fact I think we are pretty much done, minus a few finishing touches.  I feel so relieved.  

We were very fortunate to receive a crib from a very sweet couple.  It was in excellent condition and is a beautiful, solid piece of furniture.  Naturally since it was in such great shape I didn't really want to paint it or mess up the finish so I decided to add my own little touch to it to personalize it.  I stored this idea away long before I was pregnant because I thought it was so clever.  The oh so creative girls at All Things Thrifty did something similar to a crib that got my wheels turning.  Check out their version and more details here.

I love what they did with theirs but was a little nervous about the buttons and wanted a more feminine look.  So, I started out with a piece of board from Lowe's.  It's basically the peg board you use in the garage with the holes in it minus the holes.  It was the perfect weight and I  knew it wouldn't bend or warp like plywood can do sometimes. 

I wanted the top to have a curved edge so I made a template using craft paper.

Next, I taped it onto the board and traced the template.

Then, I covered it with white fleece material.  I thought about doing a thin layer of foam but didn't want it to be too thick to where it wouldn't fit in the crib easily.  The fleece was just thick enough and cheaper than the foam too.

Then I covered it with material and attached it to the crib.  I didn't want to damage the crib so I had to get a little creative with how I attached it.  I'll take some pictures if any of you are interested in doing it the same way I did.  

I chose a fun, yet sophisticated, black ikat fabric from here.  Fabric.com is definitely my go to place for fabrics these days.  They have great prices, great selection, and I always get my order within a few days.  No, they aren't paying me to say that either, I just really like their site :)

and now we have the finished product!  

Home for the Holidays

I realized the other day I hadn't shown you my holiday decor this year and it's almost Christmas!  It has really snuck up on me this year.  I used most of my same decor from last year with a few new additions.

Our main tree in our family room...

and our smaller silver tree in the kitchen nook

I picked up this little deer (or maybe it's a buck?) at Goodwill last year for a dollar

I switched things up a little bit in our dining room this year.  The mirror was sitting in the garage (my mom found it for me for $5 I just gave it a little makeover)  The advent calendar is a 90% off after Christmas steal from Target and one of my favorite pieces of Christmas decor.

a friend of ours gave me these awesome brass deer candle holders, aren't they cool?  

the driftwood got a little Christmas decor too...

I don't usually do much decorating upstairs but I decided to add a few pieces of Christmas decor to the landing area at the top of our stairs this year

this Santa was $5 at Marshall's a few years ago after Christmas and another favorite of mine.  I'm a sucker for anything mercury glass

and this mercury glass apothecary jar was a gift from my mother in law

Can't believe tomorrow's Christmas, hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve!

Holiday Tables

We had an event at church about a month or so ago called "Home for the Holidays."  I'm a little late in writing this post but maybe some of these tables will inspire a Christmas table setting for you.  I was in charge of decorating one of the tables and decided to go with some decor items I already had laying around the house supplemented with a few dollar store items.  Most of the round table cloths I could find weren't log enough to drape the table the way I wanted them to so I used a flat sheet from our bed, I washed it of course :)  

Actually, now that I think about it almost all of these items came from the Dollar Tree: the plates, napkins, glasses, snowflake "chargers", etc.

and here are some of the other tables the ladies decorated...

and this one was designed by my fabulous sister

Do you do any fancy table settings for the Holidays?  

I'll be sharing the rest of my Christmas decor tomorrow!  Anybody else find it hard to take good blog pictures this time of year?  When I leave for work it's dark and when I get home it's dark.   

Ruffled Cribskirt

From the moment we found out we were having a girl, I knew I wanted to do a ruffled crib skirt.  At first I thought about rigging a ruffled shower curtain from urban outfitters, but I just couldn't imagine forking over $80 for something I was going to chop up.  Then, I thought about just cutting long strips of fabric and making my own ruffles, but just the thought of that exhausted me.  I found similar ready made versions online but they were over $200 and I definitely couldn't justify that.  So, I had pretty much given up on the idea when I came across these ruffled curtain panels at Goodwill.  I think my mom actually had some of these when we were growing up, only I'm pretty sure they were mauve or country blue to go along with our hearts and geese lamps ;)  

They had 4 panels so I grabbed them all and gladly paid the $10 asking price for all four panels.  

  

To my surprise they actually still sell curtains like these, and for $50/pair!  Here are some from the so appropriately named country curtains website.

So back to the crib skirt.  I started out by making a basic crib skirt.  Basically I just sewed four panels together.  I only made it three sided since I knew one side of the crib would be facing the wall.

I did not take any progress pictures, but I simply cut the ruffles off the curtain and sewed them in rows onto the panels that would hang down.  We are getting our crib on Thursday so I don't have any staged after pictures but these give you an idea of what it looks like.  

Even with the ruffles already made, this project took me around 3-4 hours.  I can't imagine if I had done it all from scratch.  I think the total cost ended up being around $15, not too bad.  This concept could be adapted for a shower curtain, regular curtains, or even a normal bedskirt.  So next time you are at at thrift store and run across some country curtains maybe you'll give them a second look!