My Living Room Style

We've lived in our home for about a year and a half now, when we moved in I was excited to start over with a new space and excited to really make the space our own. It's taken quite some time to get everything together in our home, but I wouldn't have it any other way. In our last home we had I bought things to just "fill space" instead of really waiting and seeing what our style was going to be, or waiting for the things I really wanted. This time around we took our time finding the right things for us in our budget. We saved for big purchases like our sectional and sofa table. 

We lived with out curtains for few months till I found the right ones, then waited for them to go on sale. It's about the process and I'm ok with that. 

It's funny because the furniture we moved in with is not the same that we have now. When we moved in we quickly realized that our couch and chaise chair wasn't going to be enough seating to entertain with and fill up the space. 

It's been a fun labor of love and saving up for purchases over the last year and a half making this space our own. Let'e take a look at what it looked like when we first moved in. 

Our living room opens right into the eat in kitchen. You walk through the front door and you're in it. 

We painted our front door black, and added a "hello" sign. I wanted to define this entry way a bit more since we don't have a formal entry way. We added the board and batten on the wall and some hooks to hang our stuff. I love how it frames this space as an entry way, it also adds a really fun and cute element to an otherwise builder basic house.

The room is decent size and has four windows, I love all the light they let in during the day. We didn't paint at all when we moved in, we liked the neutral color that was here. We did add the board and batten to the wall behind the couch. I love it so much, it really adds a lot to this space. 

Like I mentioned over time we found pieces for this room. The couch came from a local Phoenix furniture store called Pruitts. Since the couch was so dark I knew I wanted most everything else to be light and airy. In our old house the decor was very warm tones, and my style has changed so much since we first got married. I like the lighter side now. 

(rug- Rugs USA, Ottoman-Amazon, chevron pillows- groopdealz, gold pillows- Goods by Grinn, blue pillow- World Market, quatrafoil pillows- Target, throw- World Market, lamps- Target, sofa table- World Market, Chair print- Day Spring, curtains- JC Penny.)

Toys sitting out, weights on the floor because this is real life, we live here and that's how we roll! 

(tv cosole- Ikea, family rules sign- made by me)

I love this couch, that spot there in the center it's my fave curl up with a good book or a show spot! 

We love our home, and I'm excited to share bits of it with you over the next few weeks. I feel really blessed to have a home for my family. Thank you for letting me share our "done for now" living room. 

If you have any questions about stuff, leave them in the comments below and I'll try my best to answer them. 

Office & Guest Room Inspiration

I've been working on making over my guest room for the last couple weeks. During the last year this room has served primarly as our guest room, and a place where I keep all my craft supplies and sew in there from time to time. My parents were the last guest to stay in there over Thanksgiving, but with a queen size bed and a sewing table set up it was getting kinda cramped. 

So we decided to get rid of the big bed in there, and make this room more into my office/ guest room. We don't have guests often so I think a smaller bed or pull out sofa is what we're going to put back in there. 

I've been saving my pennies, and used my earnings from my garage sale to start buying things for the room makeover. To see more of my inspiration & ideas for this space visit my pin board here. This room is small, but it has a decent size closet for storage. I want the space to be light, bright and airy with lots of white, icy blues, soft pinks and touches of gold. I've already been gathering some inspiration and pieces for the room, you can see where I'm going with the mood board below.

I love Ikea for simple storage solutions, you can't beat their prices on some of their office stuff. Last weekend I scooped up some shelves to add to my office, and some simple white boxes and magazine files to store more things in. 

The gold table is from Target and I found it on clearance back at the beginning of January, it quickly went into my cart at $24.99! I'm still on the hunt for the perfect couch to add to the room. It needs to be able to fold out into a bed so when we do have guest they have a place to sleep. 

Here's how the room looked once we cleared everything out of it to start from scratch. 

The view looking in from the doorway, and as you can see below the closet as well. So we're starting with a pretty blank canvas. 

My goal is to DIY this room for $500 or under! I'm pretty sure with my savvy skills I can make it happen. Check back later in the week to see the progress I've made in this room. 

Have you attempted any room makeovers lately? 

Zane's Nursery

I'm excited to finally share with you Zane's completed nursery! His room has been completed for the most part for a few months. There were just some finishing touches I wanted to add before I showed it to everyone. When we found out that we were having a boy I knew somehow I wanted to encorporate my Husband's love for the Oklahoma Sooners into our baby's room decor. 

However, I didn't want it to be all football themed in every corner. I dreamed up a mood board of reds, creams and neutral colored walls with hints of red and football. See the original mood board here. 

I love how it turned out, I can't wait to take you on a tour! Let's go!

This is the view from the doorway. When we moved into our new home and finally got furniture in, the room ended up being to small to add the dresser I wanted. Instead we used the furniture that was in Ava's nursery. Someday we'll add the dresser when there's no longer a need for the changing table. 

curtains & rug: Ikea
white furniture: Graco Lauren Edition Babies R Us
Paint color: Natural Linen by Glidden

Above Zane's closet is a banner that was made by a friend and hung at my baby shower. I brought it home that day knew that I wanted to use it in his room. I decided to hang it above the closet, I love that it was handmade by a friend and is something personal in the nursery decor. 

The crib skirt and the quilt are two of my faves of the whole room. They really are huge focal points and add so much to this room. The fabric was one of the first things I picked out for the room, I knew I wanted something red and you can't go wrong with chevron. The quilt was a gift from a former co worker who made this for me. I came into work one day to find it on my desk, it's such a beautiful piece to have in his room and a wonderful reminder of a great friendship. 

The glider and ottoman are just on the opposite wall. I made the pillow with some of the leftover fabric I had on hand. 

glider: Babies R US
pillow: made by me
red chevron fabric: www.fabric.com
crib skirt: made by me
quilt: gift

This little shelf is one of my faves in the room. Above it sits one of Zane's newborn photos that I took. One the shelf I placed a few of my Husband's personal football items. The mini helmet is my husband's that he's had forever that was just sitting in a box of personal items. It now sits on the shelf and had a permanent home. 

shelf: Lowes

Sock monkey: gift

newborn photo: taken by me

I wanted to display some of the children's books we have, since Ava we've accumulated a ton of books. I wanted to display a few of them and create a little toy nook in the corner of the room. Ava was a little hesitant to "give" her brother some of "her" books but it was a good lesson in sharing. ;)

The shelves are just photo ledges from Ikea that we already had, they make great shelves for displaying books. 

shelves: Ikea
red toy bin: DownEast Home

I shared with you already the gallery wall I put together for the room, I love how this came together. Below it sits the changing table and the canvas bins I re did. They hold all sorts of baby things in each bin. I love the idea of numbered bins, my interpretation of the numbers on a football field. 

hamper: Babies R Us

changing pad: Babies R Us

canvas bins: Target, hand painted by me

Just a few more details of the room. The big "Z" was a paper mache letter from JoAnn's that I spray painted red and hung on the wall. 

I had so much fun creating this nursery for our sweet little boy. I love seeing him in his room, and I love creating rooms for our little ones. I love everything about this room, but if I had to pick a favorite thing it would probably have to be the gallery wall. It was so fun collecting all those elements. Thank you for letting me take you on a little tour today.