Showing posts with label loft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label loft. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

Bedroom Makeover

Ever since Sean and I decided to stay in our loft for another year, I've been thinking up ways to make our place look more like our own. This means gently switching out hand-me-downs that have gotten us through our first few years of marriage, and replacing (some, not all!) them with things that fall more in to place with our personal style.

Like I said a few weeks ago, we've started by giving our bedroom a little makeover. Boy, did it need it!

We live in a loft, which means that the only doors in our entire two-story space are located in the bathroom and on our two closets. I decided that our bedroom needed a little more privacy, and the best way to do that would be to separate it from the rest of the upstairs. We had talked about getting a divider of some kind, and on Friday I had the genious idea to add a curtain. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Before (the view from our bed):


After:


I also added a few personal touches to my dresser:


And added another small side table, which I'm debating on painting a mustard yellow color:


Still needed to complete this bedroom:

1. Some rad wall art... still looking for something large to go over our bed. Possibly something like this, to track our travels :)

2. A cozy rug, like this one.

3. Still looking for something to hang over the door, for the millions of scarves I've collected over the years.This could work.

4. I'm making my own version of this, and filling it with dried flowers in tiny test tube bottles.



next room. . . bath :)



Monday, December 06, 2010

getting into the christmas spirit:

It takes me a while to really get into the ''Christmas Spirit''. The only good thing that comes from this is that I'm constantly trying to find creative ways to prepare myself for the big day. This usually means watching Home Alone and Christmas Vacation 34901275189750894 times a day, which who can really complain about that?

So this weekend I decided to go into Christmas-Spirit-Over-Load and started the second I left work on Friday. I spent the night cutting out paper snow flakes, baking cookies, cleaning, and putting up our decorations. Then Saturday we had our very first snow of the season!!! Sunday was the best, though... we had lunch with Sean's parents and then went to pick out our Christmas tree! [We always get a real tree, because the smell its a sure fire way to feel all warm and fuzzy inside] We decorated while listening to Christmas music & sipping beers, had dinner, then watched more Christmas movies. Oh, did I mention the puppies relazed on the couch in their Christmas Pajama's while we hung ornaments and lights? Yes. They love this holiday, too!

Our tree... and of course our Charlie Brown tree &
lots of candles...
Sean hanging lights...
Stockings for Me, Sean, Samson, Pete & Imogen...
do you have stockings for your pets??
Abird in our tree, for good luck...
The official 2008 White House ornament...
Sean is really proud of this one :)
Vintage ninja turtle decoration... from when Sean was little...

What gets you in the
holiday spirit??
 
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