It's no secret that I love HALLOWEEN. Every year I try to make our house as spooky as I can. Some years I do a theme (whatever our Halloween party theme is) and some years I just got with it. This year our theme was Hocus Pocus and I decided that I wanted to have a color scheme going in each room. Our living room was black and white themed and so I rounded up all of our black and white decor … [Read more...]
Entry Way
One of the big items on my wish list when we were looking at houses to buy, was a large Entry Way. In my mind it was necessary that I had a space big enough for a bench or chair and an oversized entry table or dresser (and by necessary I mean I literally vetoed houses that had smaller or badly shaped entry ways). I wanted a space that I could have fun decorating but that also didn't end up feeling … [Read more...]
Alabama Home Tour
Welcome to the Home Tour for our newly purchased home in Alabama. When we bought our house last year we knew that we wanted a fixer upper but we also needed something that 6 people (and one on the way) could comfortably lived in while we worked on it. We wanted something that we could put our own personality into without having to remodel a whole entire house. Excuse the terrible photos, they … [Read more...]
Small changes BIG impact
Do you ever feel like you have the perfect decor and you just love all your decorations.... until one day you don't? That's how I have been feeling lately, I loved what I had, but I simply felt like something was missing. It wasn't anything big or major, I didn't feel like it needed to be anything big, like a furniture change, but I felt like there was just parts that didn't mesh right, or feel … [Read more...]
Dining Room
The dining room is certainly the most used room in our house. We play games at the table, have friends over for meals, decorate holiday cookies, have holiday meals, have late night conversation, lots of laughs and eat an amazing amount of good food. The dining room can also be one of the most neglected spaces in your house when it comes to decorating. I have been in so many homes where people … [Read more...]