progress

More progress on the beach house today.  First up the inspiration board.

and the progress pictures...

Once again, so many things have happened since these pictures were taken, the lighting has been installed, the floors are finished, the countertops are installed, the backsplash is in...updated pictures coming soon!

Valentine's

Hope your day is filled with lots of love!

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Just Beachy

Remember when I talked about the beach house I'm designing for a client?  Well, I'm happy to say that things are really moving along.  It has come a long way from the beginning stages and is starting to look like a real house now.  In fact, everything should be finished in just a few short weeks.  Then we get to start the fun part of filling it all up.  My client sent me a few pictures she snapped while she was down there checking on the progress.

Here's the design board for the master bathroom

and some pictures of the progress from a few weeks ago

and a little view of the bar area right outside the master bath

since these pictures were taken, the chandelier has been hung, the crown molding has been installed, the bathtub is in and the mirror was installed.  Can't wait to see some more pictures of the progress!  I'll be sure to keep you updated along the way.

Super Thrifty

My mom found this mirror for me for $1.  Can you believe it?  She is the queen of thrifting.  I wasn't loving the dated color or style so much but knew some paint would make a world of difference.

I always have such good intentions of taking step by step pictures on how to achieve this finish, but then I find myself covered in paint and stain with no free hand to snap a picture.  So, I'll just tell you how I did it because it was really easy.  First I just painted it a nice shade of gray.  After it was good and dry, I painted some dark stain on with a sponge brush and then wiped it away with a damp cloth.  Some of the paint actually ended up coming off when I wiped off the stain because I didn't wait quite long enough.  I actually like the end result though because it gave it a more weathered, distressed look.

I used the same technique on this mirror too.  Happy weekend!

Country Blue

Do you remember when this shade of country blue was popular?  along with all the hearts and geese?  Well, I ran across these two little lamps at Goodwill and loved the classic "ginger jar" shape and knew that I had the perfect lampshades at home to go with them.  They just needed a quick coat of cream spraypaint (or ivory silk to be exact)

I used a little of this to prime them first to make sure the paint would adhere to the slick glass surface.  You can get it at Lowe's for around $4.

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Then painted them with this

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then I added a pair of lampshades that I'd been saving for the perfect pair of lamps.  Here's one of them but they look identical.  Pardon the plastic that's still on the shades I'm taking these down to my booth and wanted to leave the plastic on to protect them.

and a random side note, my latest little Goodwill find....

I've said it a million times (and I'm sure I'll say it again) but it's always amazing what a little coat of spraypaint will do!

Happy Weekend!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Yellow Blanket

Believe it or not, one of the most common questions I get asked is where I got the yellow blanket at the foot of our bed in our master bedroom.  Although this may seem like an odd question to be so popular, I'm not surprised because I had the hardest time finding a blanket for the foot of the bed that was the right shade of yellow.  People are always surprised with my answer.  I got it at Goodwill.  Unfortunately, that doesn't really help people in their search, so I decided to do a roundup of some similar yellow blankets.  

Here's mine:  (for more pics of our master bedroom click the picture in the sidebar)

and some similar lovelies that are hopefully what some of you are looking for!

love the color and texture of this one of a kind of find on Etsy

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cute throw from West Elm

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or (I think this would be the route I would go) you could get a simple, plain white blanket like this one from Macy's....

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add a little yellow RIT dye and you have a perfect yellow blanket in just the color you want!

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The RIT dye website has a link where you can find recipes for just the right shade of yellow, pretty cool.

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