Inspiration Friday No.6 ~ Favorite Spaces

Happy Friday!!  

Here are some beautiful pictures for you to enjoy :)

This bedroom speaks to me, not sure why.  We have black furniture and I am seriously loving this look right now and I would love to put wainscoting in our bedroom.

If I had a pool I would want it to look like this.

 BHG via decor scene

 Coastal Living designer Keith Scott Morton

...but I like this bedroom too.  Softer colors, peaceful and comfortable.

 Pinterest via decorpad

 via a life of beauty and grace

 designer Martha O'Hara Interiors

...to die for bathroom.  I would love this tub.

 Hamptons Designs via Shorely Chic

 Centsational Girl

 sikamo

 Style at Home

 Style at Home

 tumblr

I love how simple this kitchen is but it's still so pretty.  I've been thinking about doing a rattan shade in our kitchen, I like how it adds focus to the window.  

I hope everyone has a great weekend!  The kids are on Spring Break here and it has suddenly turned cold :(    

hopefully next week will be warmer so they go play outside.  I really wanted to take them to hangout at the beach, if only to get our toes in the sand.  I can't wait for summer!!

~ Kim

Family Room Slipcover Round #2

*** I want to apologize ahead of time if anyone is sick of looking at my Family Room, it's new to me so I am excited to show it off... the newness will wear off soon.  I promise :)  

 I was looking at the pictures from yesterday's slipcover reveal and I didn't care for the placement of furniture.  It felt lopsided to me.  So I messed around with the room today and it went from this:

To this:

 I think there is more symmetry to this layout.  One day I plan on doing two matching side tables with matching lamps, but for now this will have to do.

 Our dog, Zoe, she was comfortable so I didn't want to move her.

  I left out the Pottery Barn chair (on the left) in yesterday's post because the slipcover was being washed.  I thought that the two fabrics would match perfectly but the sofa slipcover is a much creamier color than the chair slipcover.

 I created a little display on the wicker trunk of books, shells, and a green potted plant.

Okay, so I have a question and would love some feedback.  Below is a picture with the yellow garden stool that I purchased at HomeGoods.  It is very yellow and I'm not sure that I want to keep it that color.  If you compare the two pictures below one has the stool and one doesn't.  What do you think, keep the stool yellow or spray paint it another color?  And what color do you think?

 With yellow garden stool.

With out stool... I definitely plan on incorporating it somehow, just unsure about the yellow.  What do you think?  

Thanks for stopping by!  :)

Family Room Slipcover

  I am in love, I am in love with something that can not love me back...I know this and I still love it so.  I've thought about it, dreamed about it, and imagined it with me.  :)  It is my pretty new slipcover!!!  I love it.  It is exactly what this house needed and I feel like finally all of my hard work to make this our airy, beachy, modern style home is coming together.

  I saved $500 on a brand new slipcovered Rowe Nantucket sofa.  How'd you do that you ask??  Well let me break it down for ya!

New Sofa $1,100 + cost of upgraded fabric = around $1,300 when all is said and done.

I paid $810.00 for mine!

 This is how... I paid $165 for the sofa with existing cranberry slipcover off of Craigslist awhile ago and I paid $645 for a new slipcover.  Ridiculous I know, but I'm saving $500 here in the long run!!!  When you think of it as paying around $800 for a quality, name brand sofa that will last for years, most people wouldn't even blink an eye at that price.

Some people I know...(Mom and DH) think I'm crazy for paying that much for a slipcover when "the other one was perfectly fine".  Well yes, the other one was not in terrible shape but it was CRANBERRY for goodness sakes!!  I lived with a red leather sofa for 8 years (bad design choice I know, I was young).  I am so OVER red.  So that's how it happened and I am so happy that I did it.  We might be eating mac n' cheese for the rest of the week, but we'll be stylin' while we're watching the tube! :)

So here is the before picture of the sofa:

Not terrible but everything in our house is blue or white.  

It just didn't go with the style of our home.

And here she is all dressed up in her new slipcover!!!

 I made the pillows today.  I didn't even bother buying new pillows, I just stuck some old ones that weren't being used into the new case.

 A crate found at Goodwill.

 The lighting is hard to work with in this room in the afternoon.  For some reason the pictures come out dark when it actually really bright in here.  Speaking of lighting... the fan is hideous, I know.  I have plans.

Okay now watch this... you see this little person walking by, watch what happens...

Do you see the blanket?  He did that on PURPOSE.  Just walked by and pulled it down and kept on walking!!!

 The garden stool is from HomeGoods.

The view from the kitchen.  Sooo pretty! :)

So I put the slipcover on late yesterday afternoon and by last night there were already shoe marks and jelly. JELLY.  on it.  It was a total accident that the jelly got onto it but still I was like are you kidding me?!!!   I need to ScotchGuard this sucker ASAP.

Thanks for looking, I hope you all like it as much as I do!

~ Kim :)

Link Party

I linked my spray painted owl over at Thrifty Decor Chick for the Before and After Party.  

I love these link parties, you get to see so many amazing projects and crafts!

http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/

Sprucin' Up the Front Porch

I bought some flowers yesterday to plant in pots I had from last summer and decided to clean up the front porch a bit.  It had been neglected since Fall and needed a little color and a little love.

Here is the before:

 I found the wreath at Goodwill, it was still for sale at Target when I got it.  It was a pretty orange and green dried leaves and flowers, I thought the orange looked good on our teal door.  I'm so happy I didn't pay full price for it, because after hanging out on our door for a few months, it was sun bleached!

 I was very bad and painted the front entry window but never scraped the paint.  Terrible.  I could never remember to get a scraper when I was the hardware store so it stayed like this... for. way. too. long.

 Yay!! Paint has been scraped!

And the not so earth shattering but definitely an improvement AFTER:

 So since I don't know how to get those useful little arrows onto my pictures yet, I am just going to point out all of the improvements that need to be made (and it is even more obvious now that I see this picture).  On the left we need some street numbers, above the trellis...that is where the Clematis will be blooming soon.  We need larger outside lights and in a darker finish so that you can see them against our oh so pretty orange brick.  I need a cute welcome mat.  And I need to paint the glass door surround another color other than taupe.  Any ideas, same color as the shutters?

Houzz

...and maybe some bigger containers would help too.

Houzz

I also thought about doing this with a climbing rose bush.  I think this looks amazing.

 But for now, we have Snapdragons.  They kinda make me happy with all their pretty colors.

 Our front lawn, you can see the scrawny cherry tree on the right.

Our maple tree, the colors on this thing are amazing! 

 Kwanzan Cherry Tree is not yet in full bloom and is just sooo pretty, 

I am in love with this tiny little tree.

So the porch is spruced up but is definitely far from done.  But you know when you look at something so much you don't really see it anymore, until you see it in a photograph?  That's how I feel today.  I think I have some big plans for our front porch that will bring in way more curb appeal!  

Also, as a side note, I haven't jumped on the bandwagon and invested a real camera yet, 

all I have is a little 'ole Canon point and shoot, but I think I do alright with it.  Maybe one day.  :)

Let's go on vacation, shall we?

...and because I need a serious drink and massage after all that stress let's take a much needed vacation...

... all pictures snatched up quickly from Google images.