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custom furniture | $1000 giveaway

Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Interior Define.  All words and opinions are my own, and, as always, I’m partnering with a brand I like that I want to introduce to my readers. I am a big-time online shopper.  I live at least 45 minutes away from decent shopping and about 1 1/2 – 2 hours away from really great shopping.  So, I’ve become very comfortable making big purchases from pictures, measurements, descriptions and reviews.  I’ve bought all of the tile that is in my house online, an armoire, three toilets, a bathtub, an ottoman, two beds, barstools, yards and yards of fabric, all of my rugs and countless accessories. The people at UPS and FedEx love me. So, when I was introduced to Interior Define, a company that specializes in custom, made-to-order furniture sold online, I was interested in checking them out.  That is right up my alley.  One big advantage

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December 16, 2015 995 Comments
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kim’s coastal bedroom | the bedskirt & built-ins

I know lots of you are eagerly awaiting the reveal of my mom’s room makeover.  Trust me…she is, too!  My design services are free, but they aren’t fast!  We have been making some progress, though.  I mentioned before that I made a bed skirt, but I didn’t have a chance to get a picture of it, until this weekend.  (…when we watched the Redskins beat the Bears.  Just throwing that out there.)  Here it is on the bed… It really adds a finished look to the bed and a hint of color and pattern in the neutral space.  The fabric is Adelaide Mist from Sailrite. I wish I had made a tutorial of the skirt, but I flew through it to get it made for my mom’s birthday, so I could present it to her when I took her out to dinner a few weeks ago.  It involved lots of

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December 15, 2015 23 Comments
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master bedroom Christmas decorating

I don’t decorate every single room in the house for Christmas, but our master bedroom is right off the family room, so I like to bring a few festive touches in the room. I decorated the room pretty much as I did last year.  I don’t feel like I have to keep things the same, but I also don’t feel like I have to change what looked really pretty the previous year. My dress form is wearing an antique costume jewelry necklace that belonged to my Oma.  I also wrapped a length of wool mini pom-pom garland around her neck.  It’s the same Anthropologie garland I used on the Christmas tree, but I added some homemade poms on both ends. As I did last year, I draped our grain sack stocking advent calendar on the foot of the bed.  Each day, I fill the stocking with a mini Lego set and

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December 13, 2015 13 Comments
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slipcover series part 4 & reveal

Well, I finally finished the slipcover for my mom’s room makeover!  Slipcovers aren’t my favorite and catching every step on film slows my progress to a crawl, so it’s taken me much longer than usual to get this thing finished.  I gave myself a pep-talk and threw some air-punches in the studio and I made it happen. If you’re overwhelmed by your slipcover project, just take it one step at a time and you’ll get it done. And here is the finished slipcover… The burgundy fabric is all still there, but it has a new slipcover in antique hemp sheets… …with a flirty skirt… …and ribbon ties on the back, as a little surprise… I love how the ribbon looks like upholstery webbing.  I think I bought it at World Market, but I’m not 100% on that. The slipcover makes this traditional wing chair feel a bit more relaxed and in

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December 12, 2015 13 Comments
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Christmas room tour | family room

As a part of the Just a Girl “One Room Tour”, I’m sharing my family room all decorated for Christmas. If you’re coming from Decor Chick or Just a Girl for the first time, welcome.  (And, of course, my regulars are always welcome!) I decided to share my family room today, because it’s the room we spend most of our time in.  It’s where we play and do homework and watch TV.  In fact, I’m sitting on our family room sofa as I write this post…on my usual side, leaned up against my usual pillow. This is probably my least favorite room to photograph, though. The living and dining rooms get amazing light and they totally spoil me when it comes to photography.  This room faces north and it is just a tough one to shoot without bringing in lights and scrims and all of that gear that I would rather

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December 10, 2015 19 Comments
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the most popular horse in blogland

You know when you’re out shopping and you find a little gem?  Something that screams out at you to buy it.  It speaks to you. Well, I was rummaging around in the somewhat ransacked Christmas section of TJ Maxx and I spotted this sweet wooden horse, just one, with a red bridle and saddle and the sweetest shape.  I think it was $25.  I grabbed it up without hesitation and immediately imagined it painted with milk paint.   And then, as I was perusing Instagram, I realized that just about everyone else in the blog/Instagram world felt the same way about this horse and they bought it, too.  It would seem it’s the poster child for Christmas 2015. And my little gem was feeling more like the mass-produced, trendy horse it actually was.  Because it was everywhere!! I clung to the hope that my plan to paint it would make it my

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December 10, 2015 20 Comments
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ten minute Christmas decorating | pretty packages

As I’ve been decorating for Christmas this year, I’ve shared that I’m all about keeping it simple.  Pretty things, fresh greenery, a few traditional touches and that’s about it.  I don’t want to have bins and bins of Christmas decor. One touch that I do like to add each year is a few fake presents.  Empty boxes that I wrap just to look pretty. I started doing this years ago when I didn’t have very much money for decorating.  I had empty boxes, wrapping paper and ribbon, so I could wrap a stack of boxes and set up a pretty arrangement on the cheap.  I also think that adding a few presents under the tree adds a little life before the real presents are put out on Christmas eve. I have a really hard time finding Christmas wrapping paper I like.  The blue & white paper selection is usually pretty thin,

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December 9, 2015 25 Comments
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slipcover series | part 3

Welcome to part three in this updated version of my slipcover series. In part one, I covered how to make custom piping and in part two, I show how I cut my fabric pieces to get ready for pinning and sewing. And now we’re going to start pinning and sewing.  This is where people start getting nervous, but we’re going to take it section-by-section and you’ll be surprised how it all comes together to make a slipcover. Really.  If you can sew a reasonably straight line, you can do this. Pin fitting is the best way for me to make a slipcover.  Basically, I use the chair as my model, my dress form, and I pin the slipcover to it, inside out.  There’s no templates or patterns, so it’s a lot more straight forward.  This makes for a nice, tight fitting slipcover. Here’s how… Up next, we’ll start pinning and sewing

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December 8, 2015 14 Comments

I’m Marian, a painter, writer, and lover of all things creative. From art and antiques to home projects and everyday life, I share my journey in hopes of inspiring you to embrace your own creativity and make beauty in the spaces you live.

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