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This is the hardware that, until yesterday, was on all of our bedroom furniture. I am well aware that they are solid brass Chippendale pulls. Call them what you want. They look like the Bat Signal to me. We were incredibly lucky to receive a beautiful bedroom suite when we first married. It came from [...]
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The Simple Winter Mantle I’ve caught a bug. A simplifying bug. After Christmas, I put away all of my fancy decorations and started pulling out my regular stuff. I put out my lanterns and urns and pictures and junk. And I hated it. ALL of it! Not in an “I want to go buy all [...]
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One of my house goals for this year is to find something to hang above the bed in my master bedroom. The redecorarranging of this room is moving at an agonizingly slow pace and I thought this might goose me into finishing it up already. I want to keep it very simple because I’m going [...]
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I think I write about my mantle more than any other topic around here. I guess that’s because 1) I love it and 2) It sets the tone for the entire first floor of our home. I like for it (and the rest of my home) to evolve with the seasons. After all the clutter [...]
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Apparently, I live under a rock because I missed The Nester’s Home Goals Party last week. As I was browsing through some of your posts, it made me think a little more purposefully about my own home for 2011. I always have a list of no less than 20 projects on my to-do list, but [...]
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I’m trying to keep things simple this year. Simple traditions. Simple gifts. Simple parties. Simple decorations. I loved my Carnival Light Garland from last year and my Gigantic Natural Garland from the year before. But I just didn’t have it in me to do something big this year. I found the fake juniper garland at [...]
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Last Friday I had the chance to chat on the phone (YES, the PHONE!) with Nate Berkus of The Nate Berkus Show. If you’re an avid blog reader, then you’ve probably heard of Nate because he’s done such a fantastic job of reaching out to the blogging community by hosting bloggers in his audience, having [...]
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OK. Maybe it’s not quite time. But I can’t help myself! The boxes of Christmas goodness have been taunting me from the basement for 2 weeks now. When do you start decorating? PS…Have you seen my Christmas e-Book?
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I’ve shared before that I’m a major magazine junkie. I have so many subscriptions that I love and enjoy. This Old House, Southern Living, BHG, Coastal Living, and on and on. My problem is that I can’t part with my magazines once I’ve read them! Same goes for home decorating catalogs like Pottery Barn, Restoration [...]
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It’s no secret that I like stuff. Mostly pretty stuff for my house, but I’m an equal opportunity stuff-lover. And I’m gifted at finding good stuff. Cheap. I find stuff in the clearance aisle, at the Goodwill and the antique store. And occasionally, by the side of the road. I love the things that I [...]
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I also win the Most Pointlessly Long Post Title Award. Neener neener. I summer-ized my fireplace hearth last week. I went the traditional fern-on-the-hearth route, but it wasn’t totally working for me. I think I like the Boston Ferns on the back porch instead of on the hearth. When I saw this beautiful Kimberly Queen [...]
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What do you do with your fireplace during the summer? Not the mantle…that’s a post for another day…but the actual fireplace. During the fall and winter, it holds the promise of cracking fires and warm evenings. But in the summer, it just looks like a big empty box. I’ve taken the pretty traditional approach of [...]
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I love a well-decorated outdoor space. As soon as the weather gets warm, my attention heads outside and we spend as much time as possible out there. We had a beautiful front porch at our old house that I finally decorated when we were trying to sell the house. I could have kicked myself for [...]
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The master bedroom makeover keeps moving along! I never realized how much I would love having a put-together bedroom until I started putting it together. I can’t wait to make my bed in the morning because it looks so pretty! Nevermind that there’s clean laundry stacked on the dresser and and a pile of dirty [...]
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The master bedroom project keeps moving along. And I’m crazy-mad in love with our new window treatments! They were a super deal and they’re perfect for the room. But before I show you their glorious-ness, let’s take a quick look back at the window wall before any of the recent changes. Big, blank windows with [...]
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Woohoo!!!! First step COMPLETE! I’m beyond excited to see some changes happening in my master bedroom. Before anything else, I wanted to find bedding that I love. It took hours of shopping (online and in-store) and 2 tries…but I have something I adore! First, I really thought I wanted a beautiful white quilt. And I [...]
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I was looking around my home the other day and I realized how often I hang stuff above my doors and windows. It’s not some crazy compulsion where I’ve filled up every other square inch of wall space. I just like to hang stuff above other stuff. Deep thoughts with Kimba. Like this pretty piece [...]
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Country Living Is it weird that I’m totally nervous to show you the “before” pictures of our bedroom? Especially because I have no “afters” yet. I feel so vulnerable. Hold me. But this is my motivation to finally focus my attention on our bedroom. Yesterday, I gave you a couple of tips for making your [...]
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