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decorating dominoes

Yes, cleaning can be a drag.  I don’t always look forward to going through the routine of picking up, cleaning toilets, mopping floors, etc., but I have found that it can actually be very stimulating to my creativity.  I know it sounds crazy, but cleaning can be a good time to think and interact with my surroundings in a way that makes me look at them in a fresh way.  Sometimes I get my best decorating ideas when I’m cleaning!  Really! Last weekend, as I was cleaning, I started to feel that creative spark.  I was motivated to take care of some things that have been hanging out in corners since we moved here…  a stack of pictures, ironstone plates, a chandelier still swaddled in bubblewrap.  We’ve lived here for several months and it’s time to take care of some of this stuff.  Yes, it’ll probably change again down the

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master bedroom curtains

I had lots of projects lined up for my mom’s visit.  We are both doers and thrive on productivity, so it suits us to have an ambitious to-do list.  As her 10 day visit was winding down, we had checked almost everything off my list.  My mom looked at the sad curtains in my master bedroom, a hold-over from the previous owners. “Let’s just take care of these curtains.” She knows that sewing is something I do, because I like the end result.  But, I don’t really like sewing.  I could completely do without it in my life.  I do, however, like expanding my options beyond curtains and pillows that are ready-made.  I believe that sewing is one of the best DIY skills you can have in your arsenal.  For that reason, I just suck it up, put on some good music, do it, and enjoy it when the project

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antique pine chest

With the new bed and the new wall color, things in the master bedroom were falling into place nicely. I’ve been looking for a small dresser/chest of drawers to use as a night stand for Jeff’s side of the bed for a few months, though, and have come up empty.  The ones we used in our last house looked dinky and out of proportion in this new room. For my side, I used this marble-topped chest, which used to be next to our front door in PA.  The size, scale, and color are perfect, so I was looking for something similar to complete the pair. Well, when I was out shopping before Christmas, I found a lovely antique pine chest at a local antique store.  I had seen it on their Facebook page, but it was from a picture taken in the spring, so I doubted it would still be

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Stonington Gray

After not writing for over a week, I feel like there is so much to write that I don’t even know where to start.  Really, I’ve been sitting here for about an hour… writing something, getting distracted, strolling Instagram, coming back to the post, deleting it, starting again.  It’s silly.  I think I’m just feeling a little rusty and I need to gather my thoughts.  So, I’ll get a blank piece of paper and do that.  Until then, I’m just going to share about the painting I did.  Well, some of it.  I sort of went on a tear.  And it involved Stonington Gray, as the title suggested. As I’ve mentioned before, and I’m sure you have experienced, decorating is like dominos.  A new mattress leads to a new bed frame (we got on clearance from ), which leads to painting a wall before the bed frame and mattress are

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bed crown take two?

Years ago, back when my blog was just a wee little thing, I made a bed crown for our master bedroom.  I wanted to make our cheap mattress on a metal frame look more important and high-end.  And, it doubled as camouflage for a doorway that made arranging furniture in the room awkward. And here it was… This is sort of like looking at an old year book photo! This was before blog beauty shots had to be beautiful and when revealing a finished project with fabric wrapped around pillows and wrinkled bedding was completely okay.   And this was my phase when I decided to forsake blue and give aqua a try.  Which didn’t last very long, so the bed crown, that I pestered Jeff to hang and I was so elated over, soon became something I wanted out of my house. Memories of that fickleness hang around me as

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master bedroom | fabric, color & furniture

We knew, even before we moved, that we might be switching some things around when it came to the bed/sleeping situation in our house.  We wanted to get through the move and some projects that were a priority before we made any decisions on it, though. Now that we have some of those priorities behind us, like paint and climate control for the studio, kitchen appliances, etc., we are ready to do some furniture shuffling and make decisions about the master bedroom. I’m going to share more about this in a couple of days, but Jeff and I have been talking about getting a new mattress for a while.  We have a very nice mattress, but it’s too soft for Jeff and too hard for me, so this compromise results in neither of sleeping as comfortably as we’d like.  So, we have found a solution for that and, while we

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master bedroom tour

It occurred me to, as I was angst-ing over spending my entire Thanksgiving trying to get this room holiday-blog-ready, that I haven’t even shown our master bedroom in this new house.  I started doing a room-by-room home tour when we moved in and I got busy with other things and never finished. It also occurred to me, as I was even dragging out bins of Christmas decor and planning on buying a live tree and figuring out how to strategically hang fabric to make it look like I’ve made curtains already, that I need to give myself a break. So, instead of playing with my room like a life-sized doll house just for the sake of pretty pictures, I’m going to share how the room looks now and share my plans for it.  And there’s not one bit of Christmas decor. The first thing about this room is that it’s

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but first, toilets

Warning: This post contains pictures of toilets that some readers may find disturbing.  Reader discretion is advised.   If you know me at all, you know I am bursting to break out some paint in this new house!  But I’ve learned from a few moves that a place feels more like home once the toilets are cleaned to my satisfaction. Sooo, before we talk about all of the fun stuff, I’m going to share about these toilets!  Yep.  A whole new house to blog about and we’re talking about toilets. This house has hard water and it’s been vacant for a while, so there was an ugly build-up in all of the toilet bowls and who knows when they last had a good scrubbing.  Our last house had hard water as well, so I learned how to clean it up lickety-split and I thought that would be helpful information for

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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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