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evolution of my home | part 9 | the boys’ room

And now it’s time for part nine of my in-depth house tour, showing how our home has evolved over the (almost) nine years we’ve lived in it. This is how the boys’ room looks today… We have two boys who are 19 months apart. They’re now 8 (Marshall) and almost 7 (Calvin, the one with type 1 diabetes). Yes, we have a lot of wrestling and have had many of trips to the emergency room that have involved staples, stitches and super glue. They are a huge part of my life, but not a huge part of the blog, since this is a DIY/home blog, not a mommy blog. But, here they are… They are getting to the age where they help out with my business a bit more and have some understanding of what I do, though the whole “my mom is Miss Mustard Seed as a job” thing is still

August 2, 2015 20 Comments

Before and Afters

megan’s office | part 2 |the “franken-chair”

Back to Megan’s office makeover… In case you missed part 1, you can find it HERE. Right away, we started talking about what she had in the space and in her basement stash that we could use an repurpose. There’s no sense in buying something new when you can shop your own house! Since this is an office, the desk chair is an important piece of furniture. I asked Megan how she felt about her current chair. Did she love it? Was it comfortable? She isn’t particularly fond of the chair, so we started talking about what she would like. She revealed that she had a chair that she loved, but the base of it broke. I decided it was worth taking a look at, to see if we might be able to fix it. Unfortunately, it was broken beyond repair. Two of the casters were stripped, so they wouldn’t

July 31, 2015 12 Comments

furniture feature friday | favorites & link party

Good evening, all! Sorry I’m a bit behind schedule today, but I was having some technical difficulties. Anyway, you may have seen that I posed a question to my readers earlier this week – What do you want from my blog? The answers have been so helpful to me and confirmed a lot of my suspicions about what is working and what could be better. One of the themes that was brought up repeatedly was Furniture Feature Friday. The majority of the comments about it were telling me it was time to let it go. This is one of the reasons why I’m glad I asked! I have been wanting to retire this link party for a long time, maybe even a couple of years, but I felt like it was a great way to feature furniture artists and send some traffic along to other bloggers and I thought my

July 24, 2015 11 Comments

furniture feature friday | favorites & link party

July 23, 2015 57 Comments

All Things Home

evolution of my home | part 8 | the guest room

First of all, thank you so much to all of my readers who have answered my questions from yesterday! I have been trying to respond to all of them, but I haven’t been able to keep up! I am reading all of them, though, and I’m taking notes, writing down some ideas and I’m definitely seeing some patterns that confirm some things I’ve been thinking about. Thanks for being constructive, encouraging, critical, and honest. It really is helping me and I feel a new excitement about my blog and how I can make it better. I’ll share more about that once I’ve had time to digest all of the feedback and figure out how to formulate a plan around what I’ve learned. I am listening, though, and really appreciating the time you have taken to respond. I was pretty bowled over. In a good way. For those of you who have

July 21, 2015 33 Comments

furniture feature friday | favorites & link party

Hello, Mustard Seed lovers from Atlanta! Kriste here. Marian and I rolled into town yesterday evening for Haven and have enjoyed poking around the city a bit before the conference kicked off. This week I picked 3 favorites that strayed a bit from my typical design tastes. And I must admit, I am LOVING each one! I really enjoy moving away from what I would naturally gravitate towards sometimes when it comes to interiors. I feel like it really helps to expand my horizons when it comes to thinking about my own home. So without further ado: my picks for this week! This. This hutch by The Turquoise Iris. I don’t even know where to begin with this piece. Again, the colors aren’t typical for me, but the piece is so striking, I couldn’t help but just be in awe over it. Paired with the wall, glass jar and woven

July 17, 2015 9 Comments

furniture feature friday | favorites & link party

July 16, 2015 11 Comments

Bathrooms

evolution of my home | part 7 | the three bathrooms

And now it’s time for part seven of the history-of-my-home tour when we look at all three bathrooms in my house. Let’s start with the upstairs bathroom… This is the bathroom that’s next to the boys’ room and guest room and it’s in the original 1940’s part of our home. It is teeny-tiny by todays standards. I think there’s no more than about 6″ between the toilet and the tub and you can easily reach the paper on the opposite wall from the potty. The wide angle lens I’m using makes it look a little bigger than it is. When we moved in, we painted the walls in a pale aqua, Jeff built the shelf for storage and I made a shower curtain out of remnant fabric and then another one for an HGTV.com project. Other than that, we left it alone. There just wasn’t much I could do to change this

July 12, 2015 22 Comments

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