When I have trouble with decorating a room, I don’t ignore it.  I don’t shut the door and focus on rooms I do like.  Instead, I decorate and redecorate and redecorate to the point of  ridiculousness until I get it right.  The best example of that is my bedroom.  Since I’m walking you through the current makeover, I thought I would share how it’s changed over the 6+ years we’ve lived in this house.  (My husband says I need a picture of him pulling his hair out somewhere in this post, but I never took one of those…) This is what it looked like when we moved in…      The mauve walls and border were there when we bought the place and the red and yellow fabric was a carryover from my last house.  The furniture pieces were mostly freebies and yard sale finds.  To help you with the

  Today was a jam-packed DIY filled day and I have pretty pictures to show for it…   I got my fabric yesterday and I couldn’t wait to play with it…well, work with it.  It is my job after all.  This project was something I wanted to do anyway, but it was for an HGTV.com tutorial, so it got bumped up the list.  Don’t ask me how I did this project, yet.  I wrote a full tutorial and it will be available soon (a few weeks probably) and I’ll link to it when it’s live. So, can you start to see my vision come to life from the bones of the room I showed a few weeks ago?              I love how the wall treatment works with the bed.     …and the chandelier is just waiting patiently on the chair that’s waiting patiently as

 I was going to show how we installed the engineered floating hardwood floors today, but I did a little photo shoot with my family room and I decided I would share the pictures and some of my reasons for picking this floor.    This is how the room looked when we first moved in… We ripped out the fireplace a little over a year ago and I’ve been waiting to rip out this carpet since the day we moved in.  After 6 1/2 years of living in this house, we finally ripped out the carpet and replaced it with 4 3/4″ wide Heritage Hickory (a floating engineered hardwood floor) by Virginia Mill Works.     The color on the walls is Glass Slipper by Benjamin Moore.  I love this color.  It’s a soft blue, but it’s still sort of neutral.   Having wood floors means that all of the furniture

Now that our new floors are installed in the family room, I am very motivated to clean up the joint.  Things were so busy for me in 2012 that I really slacked on my usual “stuff control” duties.  I knew I needed to clean out a closet, organize the toys, or get rid of clothes that were too small for the boys, but I would feel pressed to get something else done and I wouldn’t do it.  For some reason, stuff stresses me out.  It might be in a closet, totally out of view, but I know it’s there and I don’t like it. I like the stuff that’s in plain sight even less!     For about a year, we’ve had this toy shelf with locker baskets in the family room.  It’s a piece we built for Cottages & Bungalows magazine and it’s been a great storage piece.  My