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farmhouse holiday series | fall porch

It’s time for our last fall post in the Farmhouse Holiday Series – the fall porch, but we’ll be back again as the Christmas season gets underway! I have to say that I really worked at gardening and our outdoor spaces last year. I found it rewarding and we enjoyed sitting on our deck for the first time in the almost 10 years we’ve lived here. This year? Totally different story. It was hot and dry and I was really busy and our outdoor space was neglected. I would get about a D+ if I was being graded. And the + is only because I had some beautiful crabgrass that thrived on just the right combination of drought and neglect. Anyway, cooler temperatures sweeping into our county have coaxed me back outdoors to spruce up the space, so we could enjoy some al fresco meals and observe soccer practice in the

September 29, 2016 20 Comments

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Pillows for the Family Room

I shared a couple of days ago that I was going to make some custom pillow covers for the family room sectional. It came with pillows, but they weren’t my style/colors. Making pillow covers in fabrics that tie my style and colors with the sectional is a great way to make something feel a little more custom and cohesive. I already had the checked blue pillows, so I kept those and made some more out of antique linen tea towels with blue embroidery and Waverly’s Country House Linen Cameo Toile. (I was going to add the gray linen in there as well, but decided against it.) Kriste made the piping, cut out the fabric, and pinned the pillows and then I sewed them together (more tag-teaming on this project!) We worked together to get them all hand-stitched closed. I know I should put zippers on my pillows, but I just don’t

September 27, 2016 24 Comments

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Pillows for the Family Room

September 26, 2016 26 Comments

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Furniture for the Family Room & Calvin’s Room

A few days ago, I shared the new arrangement in our family room as well as the progress on Calvin’s room. I said I would give all of the details on the new pieces of furniture and this post is making good on that promise! Now, I admit, furniture stores have never been my thing. Give me a flea market, antique store, thrift shop or yard sale! That’s where most of my pieces have been found and I’m pretty proud of my resourcefulness and ability to make-do. But there are some pieces that can be difficult to find second-hand and it’s also nice to mix in the new with the old to make a home a little more comfortable, functional, or hard-wearing. A few months ago, I rearranged the furniture in my family room to a two-sofa setup in an “L” shape. One sofa was leather and another wore a white

September 23, 2016 117 Comments

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dog beds are decor

Before I get into the post today, I wanted to let my readers in the north east know that I’ll be in Palmyra, New York this Saturday (September 24, 2016) for The Purple Painted Lady 6th Annual Festival. (Click the link for details.) I’ll be teaching milk paint demos and answering Q&A’s at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm. I hope to see some of you there! I remember reading a post years ago, written by The Nester. In it, she pointed out that all of the things in our home, in some way, are decor. The stack of library books by the door, the mail on the kitchen counter…all of the stuff of life that we often look over, all contribute to or detract from the overall look of a room. That post made me think about all of the “stuff” in our house in a new way. The answer isn’t

September 22, 2016 53 Comments

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farmhouse holiday series | fall dining room

It’s time for another installment of the Farmhouse Holiday Series with some of my blog buddies. And this week, we partnered with All Modern to show you our dining rooms decorated for fall. I remember when I felt like “holiday” colors were locked in. Christmas had to be green and red and fall had to be yellows, oranges, and browns. That is it. And then I vividly remember seeing an article in a magazine, featuring a home decked out for Christmas in pale pink. That article gave me the push I needed to drop traditional colors and decorate for seasons in colors that I love. So, my fall table is my favorite blue and white palette with some greens and a little bit of yellow mixed in. It may not look like fall to some people, but it looks like fall to me!I started with a piece of checked fabric as

September 20, 2016 35 Comments

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fall living room

You’re all amazing. I just need to say that. All of your comments in reply to my “things have changed” post were like a huge hug to me. I know that sounds cheesy, but they really were. What’s interesting is that after I posted that, it was such a relief to me and it pushed me through that “stuck” feeling I’ve been struggling through the past few weeks. I took the pressure off of myself and creativity bloomed. Lesson learned. Well, for today, anyway! I’m sure I’ll have to learn it again and again. So, with the creative spurt, I decided to do a little fall sprucing in the living room. Fall decorating for me is just putting a few natural elements out, mixed in with things that are out every day. I used to be someone who had four or five bins of decorations, but I realized it just wasn’t

September 19, 2016 53 Comments

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mixing painted pieces in a room

I received an e-mail from one of my readers asking a question I get pretty frequently, so I thought I would write the answer in a post. Here is the question… “How do you decide what color to paint various pieces of furniture in a room. Do you paint each piece a different color or all of them the same. I have several I’d like to paint but can’t decide the colors. I don’t want to end up with a mismatch of colors. Thanks, Virgil” Well, there really isn’t a right or wrong way to mix or match painted pieces, but since I’m being asked, I’ll throw in my two cents in. I am in the eclectic camp when it comes to putting a room together. I think if you paint every single piece of furniture in a room the same color, it can make the room look a little flat,

September 15, 2016 16 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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