My dining room is all ready for spring - nice and clean with white flower accents!
Dining Room
TFH Designs: Brass & Striped Dining Room
TFH Designs, Dining Room, Design Projects, Design BoardCommentUnfortunately one of my pregnancy symptoms is that I have massive insomnia! No matter how tired I am, I wake up at 1:30 in the morning and am WIDE AWAKE for at least a couple of hours. Since I'm one of those people who always tries to see the silver lining, I guess one of the benefits is that it has given me time to shop the latest home decor and furnishings available on the market right now and make some beautiful design boards! That part has actually been very fun, since I rarely have time in my normal daily schedule to fit in this type of activity. Here is my first board, a dining room:
The items can be found here:
Wingback Chair
Dining Room Table
Shelf
Rug
Pendant Light Fixtures
Bar Set
Stay tuned! There is plenty more where this came from :)
Fall Home Tour 2015
Fall Decor, Home Tour, My Home, Dining Room13 CommentsHello friends! So excited to share our early fall home tour today as part of the Farmhouse Fall Tour of Homes with 14 other amazing bloggers (and to show you our newly re-painted dining room in action!)
Of course the dining room is the hub of our home, so this is the area that gets the most love in terms of decorating for the seasons. This year I decided to paint ceramic pots the same color green as the walls and bring in some white mums for the perfect fall centerpiece. (I swear I kill mums faster than I can buy them, but they seem to be doing much better inside than outside - who would have figured!)
The white pumpkin candles, leaf plates, and light-up pumpkins are all from Pottery Barn from several years ago. The faux white and green pumpkins are from Smith & Hawken from probably a decade ago (does anyone else miss that store as much as I do?) and the small white pumpkin soup tureen's are from Williams-Sonoma from probably 3-years ago.
This new three tiered stand from Bungalow Home in New Albany, Ohio is the perfect addition to our kitchen! You can display so much with one of these without cluttering up your counter space!
I also decided to add a big white mum to the family room and some additional, cozy blankets and pillows. Just a few pumpkins are on the coffee table, because as you can imagine my sweet 1-year old boy thinks these are the coolest toys ever and loves chucking them across the room ;)
I also have a few pops of yellows, golds, and oranges throughout the kitchen to get more in the spirit!
The best part of all of the fall decor is how the lights and candles come to life and sparkle as the sun goes down. It smells like pumpkin spice and is downright warm and cozy!
I could sit in front of this fire for hours on a cool fall evening (and believe me, this is exactly what I did last night!)
Thank you so much for stopping by! Don't forget to check out the rest of the homes on this week's Farmhouse Fall Tour series! They are so beautiful, you don't want to miss it!
Green AGAIN?
DIY Projects, My Home, Paint, Dining RoomCommentYep, I pulled the trigger... I got out the paint supplies and tackled the room for the third time this summer, painting it back to the original color, Martha Stewart's "Falcon." I know I'm crazy and I'm promise this is the last post you will ever see from me about dining room paint! (You can see the other colors HERE!)
WHY the change again, might you ask?
1) The white was awesome for summer, but fall had me craving something warmer and richer. Originally I had planned on getting a nice warm rug for the room to bring in more color and to ground the space, but you should see the mess Miles has been making while eating recently... That rug would have been destroyed in a matter of days! We will be rug free in this room for a longgg time.
2) The wainscoting, crown molding, and built-ins in this room are SO BEAUTIFUL and they were completely getting lost with all of the white.
3) Just like the navy, the white just didn't feel 100% quite right. I can't explain it other than it was just a feeling I had that I could not get over!
The lesson I walked away with from this experience is that you do not have to be afraid to try something bold or new! Paint is SO EASY and inexpensive to change (assuming you are doing it yourself!) It's okay to play with it and it's okay to be wrong and have to go back to square one. It's really not all that traumatizing or all that difficult!
Additionally, I learned you just have to go with your gut and do what feels right for you. If you don't love something, CHANGE IT! You don't have to ignore that little nagging voice, embrace it and use it to guide you to what feels right.
I will have the full staged result during my Fall Home Tour 2015 which will be published next Tuesday September 22nd! Myself and 15 other bloggers will be showing you our homes all decorated for fall that week! So excited!
