When I was a little kid, my favorite toy was my dollhouse.  I enjoyed living out the imaginary lives of the little people who resided there, but my favorite part was arranging and rearranging the furniture.  Even building “additions” with metal lebkuchen tins to make room for more furniture. I carried that into my teen years when I rearranged and restyled my room regularly.  You know.  Just for fun.  Like most typical teenagers. My furniture-scooting habits haven’t waned and have been well documented here on this blog. Now that I have a studio space, it’s like one big, open, life-sized dollhouse.  I can create vignettes, scenes, and even entire rooms (which I hope to do a lot more!) For the first time ever, we have a fully outfitted bed in the studio and I just couldn’t resist building an entire room around it. Here is a video showing how I

When I revealed my parent’s bedroom makeover a couple of weeks ago, I shared that I would be hosting a giveaway for some Pine Cone Hill bedding and here it is! Pine Cone Hill furnished the bedding for this room makeover and offered to give away one Boyfriend Matelasse Coverlet in the color and size of your choosing to one of my readers!  This coverlet is available in 13 colors from white and ivory to orange and peacock and all sorts of colors in between.  My mom has the matelasse in Sky, which is a beautiful blue/green.   In the picture above, the spread is folded around a feather comforter, so it’s actually thinner than it appears and has a little stretch to it.  My mom loves the weight of it at the foot of their bed, since it’s not too heavy. She loved it so much, in fact, that she

The room makeover for my mom and dad is finally nearing completion!  I am planning to photograph the finished room later this week.  We finally got over the biggest hurdle in the room, the built-ins. I have assisted Jeff with building cabinets and shelves and I felt like it was something my dad and I could tackle, even though it was a bit ambitious.  I drew up the design and, over several weeks, many of us worked together on the building, finishing, and finally the installation.   It was a huge learning process for my dad and me, but we are so pleased with how they turned out.  They’ve been sitting in five pieces in my parent’s garage, each waiting their turn to be painted and finished.  Now, you know I like to use milk paint for just about everything, but we opted for primer and latex in order to

I mentioned taking on a second makeover as I’m finishing up the one for my mom, but I haven’t had the chance to sit down, give it some focused thought (and edit the pictures I took back before Thanksgiving!)  As I said, my services are free, but slow. While I haven’t sat down with a blank piece of paper to draw out some sketches, I have a pretty clear vision for this room. Here’s how it looks now… Let me back up, literally.  Because you really have to take a few steps back to appreciate how cool this house is. Yeah, I know.  That wall!  I want to take it home with me.  Sally wants a fresh farmhouse style in her living room, which is fitting and perfect, since she lives in an 1800’s farmhouse.  It has a Green Gables-esque quality about it, doesn’t it? Anyway, they’ve done a lot