The Entryway

The entry before I got my hands on it....

Not bad, but a little boring....

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it.  I was looking into benches and entryway tables, etc.  I stumbled across this cute little entryway table at Marshall's for only about $50.  I got the lamp there too.  It's a Valerie Bertinelli lamp...who knew she made lamps now.  Weird, but whatever, it's a cute lamp.

I had the mirror from our old house.  It works perfect here.

Ta da!

The Master

This is what the master bedroom looked like when we bought the house.....

Then, we had it painted gray.   Don't get me wrong, I love a pop of color, but not lime green!  We bought a new king size bed as our Christmas present and laughed and laughed at how big it looked in the room!  See our old nightstands?  They look like miniature night stands next to that massive bed! :)

And here it is finished!  The curtains are from West Elm and they were my inspiration/starting point for the whole room.  They are ivory with gray swirls on them and that is how I decided to use ivory, cream, grey, and metallics as an accent.  

I already had the Pottery Barn gallery shelves from our previous house and they just seemed to work well with our wedding pictures on that large wall.  

The bedding is a silk quilt from Pottery Barn in ivory.  The grey throw blanket is also from Pottery Barn and it is so soft and cuddly!  I still need to buy the shams that go with the quilt.  I didn't think we needed them and was going to save another $120, but then I got home and realized we probably do need them.  I'm waiting for them to go on sale because $120 just seems a little bit ridiculous to spend on two pillow covers.  Although I've already spent so much it shouldn't matter at this point, but it does.  The pillows are all from Target!  Nate Burkus has a new line of linens at Target and I love it.  

We totally scored with the nightstands.  I found a guy that custom built them for us on Craigslist.  He only charged $175 for both!  They are tall (31 inches!) and fit our ridiculous bed.  They have a gray wash/stain on the bottom part and a dark espresso stain on the top to match our bed perfectly.  I hate a matchy/matchy room where you buy the bed, the dresser, the night stands, the mirror, etc.  This was a solution.  They look great with the bed but are quite different.  I bought the mercury glass knobs at Anthropolgie and added them to the drawer.  

And this is Vivi helping Frank put up the curtains.  She's pretending to be asleep. ;)  Gotta love 2 year olds!

Vivi's Room

Vivi's room was the first finished room in the house and somehow I'm just now blogging about it.  Frank's laptop died and he's been using mine for work....hence the few and far between blog posts.  I decided to take a few pics of her room and she decided to be the model.  We used a more mellow kind of aqua for her new room than the other house.  It's called Stratton Blue by Benjamin Moore and I absolutely love it.  I think it will be a color she can grow into.

Vivi has a large wall next to the window that I wasn't sure what to do with.   We have a lot of little art/wall pieces and it just wouldn't work on that big wall so I decided to do a sort of gallery wall with her stuff.  I think it kind of goes with the eclectic style in her room.

Here are her shelves filled with little girl chotsky's (is that how you spell it?).

Her crib is in the opposite corner.  We had a hard time placing the furniture in this room and put it every possible way before deciding on this.  I picked this room for Vivi because it has a huge double door closet, but in turn that double door closet made the furniture placement tricky.

Her little coat hanger.  I found this at Anthropologie years ago and used it in my house for years before Vivi was even in the picture.  It somehow is perfect in her room.

Here's Vivi sitting on her poof that I found at a garage sale for $7.  Serena and Lily has similar poofs for WAY more than $7.  I love a good design bargain!