Drew and I decided that 2013 was our best year yet. We had such a great year with some ups and downs. Overall taking total responsibility for our lives and decisions has made all the difference.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
-Oprah
We can't wait to meet you 2014.
Our first Christmas in our new house! We could not have asked for a better year. And now to cozy up to our fire.
Happy Holidays!
I am thrilled with how this house turned out... It's exactly how I saw it in my mind. Love when that happens.
This house was beat... I am going to try and find the before YouTube video tour... Makes the transformation that much better... I am crazy about these rounded 1x1 marble tile squares on the fireplace...
The hearth... I love how the dark brown floors brought out the touch of brown in the tile...
Don't mind the wonky curtains... There was some touch up paint drying... Or it's a new look...hmmm....?
I went with Benjamin Moore Stonington for the gray on the wall...
Such a rich gray...
Crazy about this West Elm Capiz chandelier...
I think this wainscot adds so much charm to the house...
I snagged this quatrefoil tile off of overstock.com during a sale and got it 60% off... Can't beat that....
Love the plain white with the Carrera...
Can you have too much trim? I've yet to see that happen!
This is the upstairs guest bath... I am nuts about this blue/green tile... I tried a new pattern with the larger subway sandwiching the smaller subway, I love it,
The master turned out amazing... I was ready to move right in and never leave!
I switched things up and went with vertical tile for the shower... So,etimes I think vertical shower feels too modern, but it just loved how the white shell tile looked like a trickle of water...
Love the window trim tile...
I went with two oversized lanterns for the exterior... They are epic!
The foundation and wind aprons were all painted fire engine red. I used this gray because of the hint of blue it had in it, so it would pull the blue out of the rather than the orange... It worked!
We just moved into a house with a fireplace... Nothing like this (yet) but I have really loved decorating it... I got these gold frames that my friend picked up from a yard sale for me... She knows me too well...
I got this chalk art from Recipe For Crazy's etsy shop last year, and put it in the yard sale frame with a red velvet matte... I out it in there just to see the size thinking I could switch or paint the mat, but I ended up kind of liking it!
Mason jar globes are a anthropologie knock off that I made last year...
And the redd books I snagged from savers last year for $0.50. So really it all boiled down to what I could find on hand!
I also grabbed these staggered size candles from ikea... They were basically free... So cheap... Drew keeps asking when we are going to light them... I keep staring back at him blankly.... Boys (shake my head)...
The real beauty is this mantle... I die...
Well and my $4 savers mirror... Can't beat that...
Happy decorating!
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Oh do I have a treat for you! Drew has been working his little magic fingers on a house that needed a lot of love. Above is the awesome before... Asian landscape wallpaper, pink stone mantle. Can only go up from here...
And Drew smashed it out of the park. The owners were considering a simple fix for now over the pink. When we work with clients we give suggestions, not to increase our profit (although it doesn't hurt) we are truly more concerned with us leaving you with a product you will absolutely love... So Drew asked them while you are doing these updates leaving the mantle the way it is will leave the rest of the updates still feeling old. They agreed.
I will show you the rest of the updates Drew did in a bit... For now the mantle needs a spot light...
I could stare at this beauty all day. Sometimes it is easier to get a better idea of all the work that goes into something like this before it gets painted...
A lot of people will skim coat the Sheetrock smooth... After our last paneled walls where our sheet rockers left a lot of tiny pinholes that are often hard to avoid we vowed to never take that route. Drew installed 1/2" MDF and then rabbeted pencil mould inset panels.
Then he used the same trim but cut the rabbet off so its inset in the mantle instead of overlay on the paneling.... Does it feel like I'm speaking Chinese?
A little crown moulding on top of the leg of the mantle...
Each and every piece custom cut, glued and nailed. Drew hates this picture because he said he made a bad cut in the bottom left corner.... So close to perfection...
After prep and sprayed with oil based paint in Benjamin Moore White Dove... And the panel is sprayed in oil base tinted Benjamin Moore Cliffside Gray. The client wanted a gray that was more on the blue side... And this gray was it!
I found this 1" hex tile through classifieds marked down more than 60%. It turned out amazing! Drew had the brilliant idea to do chair rail tile on the inside mouth of the fireplace, sometimes working with that smaller tile it gets really tricky to get a crispl line. This really finished it off nice. If you notice the profile of the chair rail tile mimics the pencil mould inset perfectly.
And here it is... I will say almost finished. I get too excited, drew still needs to grout caulk and he might repair inside the fireplace where someone chipped away the concrete.... I couldn't wait!
