Decorating Our New Home: Patio/Outdoor Areas

Hello! Happy weekend! I did all of these posts about the new house last weekend so right now I am probably running around cleaning our old house! Currently I am sitting in my robe typing up this post...my how things can change in a week. Today I am going to talk about the area I am most excited about and probably have been dreaming about the most...The outside of the house! More specifically our patio area! There is a deck/patio area right off the back of the house. It will be awesome for entertaining and just for us to enjoy eating dinners out there! I have already purchased a patio umbrella for the area and we have patio chairs that were handed down to us. The table that matches the chairs was broken though so we have plans to buy or make something that works with our existing chairs. I also have plans to bring in color with pots, plants and some outdoor pillows and cushions. And maybe even some placemats and napkins!



This is the umbrella I ordered. It is sitting happily in our living room still in the box. I want nothing more than to open it and check it out but that makes no sense. So it will remain in the box until we get to the new house.

I love this fabric from fabric.com. There are some other coordinating prints I could use too for accents. Fabric is just so expensive I would really rather find an outdoor table cloth or something at a thrift store that I can use to make cushions. But I do love these colors and print.

This will likely be our next purchase it is only $29 at walmart and it has great reviews! SOLD!

If we make a table it will be this one from ana-white's plans.

If we buy one it will likely be this one from overstock.com for $159.99. Which would be about the same cost as making the table above because we would have to buy some tools to make it. But if we make a table we would then have a table and new tools....We will see it will probably come down to if my husband has the time and energy to help me make it.

I plan to make some of these adorable can lanterns. I have seen this project around for years and I still love it. (thecraftycrow)

I love the pops of color with the lime and teal planters. (prudentbaby)

Lights like these from Target would be a nice touch.

Also cute diy lanterns. (yourcozyhome)

Love this inexpensive window box project. I think this would be great on our front porch or under the kitchen window for herbs! Maybe both...?

DIY Flower pots!

Fantastic container garden!

Raised bed vegetable garden! Still have to ask the landlord about this one! These are from ana-white.

I love being outside in the spring and summer months. I have always loved gardening. I think I could buy everyplant at the greenhouse and love every single one of them. I can't wait until we are more settled and can actually buy a house so we can plant some of my favorite perrenials like lilacs, peonies, daffodils and tulips!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have enjoyed all of my new home inpsiration posts! This is the last one so the next time I post about the house I should be posting some moving day and before pics for your veiwing pleasure! See you soon!

Decorating Our New Home: Master Bedroom/Bathroom

Good Morning! Today I am showing you my inspiration for our master bedroom/bathroom. We already have a lot of decor for these rooms. So it will just be a matter of deciding what looks best and where to put everything. I also plan to make some curtains and maybe a throw pillow. Again focusing on being organized...with our clothes and in the bathroom.

Our current bedding has rust orange, blues and greys with a leafy print. We still love it so it will stay and our color choices will work around it.



I think this pillow is adorable and would love to recreate something like it. Maybe with an orange background fabric and light grey font? This one is from apartmenttherapy.

We both really want to make some kind of cushion headboard. Tufted would be great but not totally necessary it would certainly take a lot more time. We currently have no headboard and leaning against the wall when reading at night is not very comfy. (freshdaily)

This is beautiful I love all of the colors and especially love that night stand. This lovely room came from mysweetsavannah.

I would really really love to build a storage platform like this one for our bed. There are free plans for it over at ana-white.

I love these striped curtains but I have a feeling that my husband will not so we will have to figure out something that works for both of us. He tends to like vertical stripes better so maybe I could recreate some that way....(janiemolster)

I also really like these diy lace design curtains done by sawdustandembryos.

Onto the bathroom plans....

This is a fantastic storage idea. If I remember correctly our master bath doesn't have a lot of storage so we will have to create some. (the-new-home-ec)

Also a fantastic idea! (thepolohouse)

We already have a shower curtain that will work but it is old and I want an update so I think I may recreate something like this one from west elm. I really love stripes right now? I dont know why.

Have a beautiful day! Thanks for stopping by!

TGIF: Week 3

Hello! TGIF! Fridays are going to be a little different for me until I find a job as I won't really have a set weekend. I guess I could look forward that if we have guests they will probably be coming down on the weekends. Luckily I thought to do this post ahead of time! Otherwise it would not be happening! We are full go on moving right now! All of the packing happened yesterday and today the truck will be getting loaded to be delivered to us Monday! I am feeling super inspired right now to cook/sew/decorate/craft/garden you name it and it is probably on my list of things to do! So here we go....

Pineapple Chicken Quesadilla by thepioneerwoman. How yummy does that look! I am totally obsessed with quesadillas! Have I ever told you that? Well I am I can't get enough. I am definitely trying this one soon!!

Refridgerator Dill Pickles from oneperfectbite. Making these with the first batch of cucumbers I get from my garden!

Likely making this for the hubbies birthday! It was actually yesterday but he is already busy working so we will celebrate when we getting settled in the new house! We have to really make an effort to go out on dates and do fun things becuase he works a lot. So I think having a jar full of inexpensive date ideas would really help! Thanks lifeinthegreenhouse!

We need a new door hanging for the spring/summer months and I think something like this would be perfect! This one was done by betterhomesandgardens. It is made from jelly beans. I think I would make mine from kidney or lima beans though. I am afraid jelly beans would melt and get sticky or they would attract bees! And thats not very inviting!

Love this simple dress tutorial from icandyhandmade. She always has great clothing tutorials for women. I could wear a dress like this all summer long! And her version is striped which you know I am kind of obsessed with right now.

This is seriously adorable and a great reminder of all the things we have to be thankful for! This free printable is available over at kikicreates. I will be adding this to the gallery wall I am doing at the new house. Print, Frame, Done...and FREE!

I found this on pinterest and it cracks me up! haha

And a little reminder in case you ever forget....

Available on etsy.

Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!!

 

Decorating Our New Home: Sewing Room

Hi. Today you will see some inspiration for my sewing room. I have a sewing room at our current house so this isn't a totally new room for us. However the room at the new house is much much larger. And has a more functional closet which is always a plus. I am super excited about this room as I will likely be spending a lot of time in there. I plan to make it pretty, organized and inspiring. After all it is hard to be creative if you are not inspired by what is around you. I hope you enjoy! Hopefully this little room will help my pump out some seriously awesome stuff!

I already have a desk for this room but it is a burgundy color on the bottom and dark wood on the top. It is pretty it just doesn't really match anything else I am trying to do. It is also very dark so I plan to lighten it up by painting it either white or a fun bright color.

 I would love to make something like this! It is such a pain getting my ironing board out all the time. And I really can't leave it out because I tend to be very clumsy and that is an accident waiting to happen. This genius idea came from the-new-home-ec. 

Maybe making a wall of fun printables like these....

(craftinessisnotoptional)


(etsy)


(etsy)


(purlbee)


(avintageposter)



Yea, I could probably work with something like this! Holy cow this is fantastic! From onelittleword.

Basically my goal for this room is going to be ORGANIZING!! And making it pretty and enjoyable to be in. I may make some curtains and recover the seat of my chair....or just get a new chair.

Hope you enjoyed this! Stay tuned for the final product in the coming months.

Thanks for stopping by!

Decorating Our New Home: Guest Bedroom and Bath Edition

Hello again! I am so excited to finally have a guest bedroom and a more than one bathroom! The guest room is going to involve some major spending! We need all the furniture that will go in there. We may have a dresser or night stand I could repaint to work. We need to buy a bed though which can be a pretty big purchase. So this room may be a little slow to come together as we will have to buy pieces one at a time. We have already a few items for this room. We do actually have an air mattress so anyone that wants to stay with us could sleep on that. ;-)



We have already purchased this duvet from Target. I love it. I plan to bring in some fun color with curtains and throw pillows and other decor. I may paint this room but I am not sure yet. We also purchased pillows and plan to purchase a comforter from IKEA to fill the duvet (see below).

I love the look of this room from brightboldbeautiful. So simple and inviting.

I plan to make some kind of art to hang on the wall over the bed that says "be our guest". I found this image on pinterest and can't find the original source.

I would love to put something like this in the guest bath. It is really long and narrow so something like this would be perfect storage. This one is from itsrusticliving.

Love this west elm bathmat. Not sure what we will end up with but this is great inspiration.

I love this open shelving and the magazine storage next to the toilet. Great idea! From 320sycamoreblog.

So far all of my inspiration is very plain and laking color. I do think that keeping a guest room simple is nice though. There is something relaxing to me about a mostly white room. We will see I think I do want to add a few pops of color. Maybe some bright coral or hot pink??

Thanks for stopping by!