This past weekend, my husband and I drove to the idyllic community of Serenbe right outside Atlanta to tour the 2015 Serenbe Designer Showhouse. If you are not familiar with the community of Serenbe, it's a really interesting living concept founded by Marie and Steve Nygren. Years ago while introducing their children to the Georgia countryside, they discovered this gem of land and created a … [Read more...]
Create Unique Pillows from Thrift Shop Clothing
While browsing through a thrift store recently, I spotted a beautiful coral dress made from an Indian fabric, complete with embroidered, beaded, and jeweled hem and neckline detailing. It wasn't my size unfortunately, but it was too pretty to pass up. I love the color coral~ it's usually my "go to" choice if I want to use something in the red family, and I thought it would work well in our master … [Read more...]
Vintage Modern Chic Design Board for Chairish
Today, I'm sharing a design board I made for Chairish, showing how you can mix vintage and antique finds with modern pieces to lighten the mood of a room and add some "wow" to a space. French Country mixed with a little cottage is my personal design style, but I find myself adding a few more modern pieces over the years to update, add interest, and just lighten the mood in a room a … [Read more...]
Dwell With Dignity Atlanta House Reveal-Part 2
As promised in my last post, today I'm going to share some pretty, inspirational pictures with you of the second Dwell With Dignity Atlanta house installation! Last post, I shared with you the chairs that I had the pleasure of painting and reupholstering for this project. Today, I'm going to show them to you in the new home makeover of a very deserving young Mother and her 2 precious little … [Read more...]
Boys’ Dorm Room Inspiration Boards
Hi, Friends! Hope your Monday is going well. :) I'm just getting around to sharing on the blog about some of the items we bought for my oldest son, Wesley's, dorm room ( if you follow me on Instagram, you have seen posts about items and some inspiration boards already ). Last month, my first born son, went to college. Yes, I have really dreaded that separation for most of his senior year, but … [Read more...]
How to Reupholster a French Armchair-Gold & Green Leopard Chair- Master Bedroom Projects-Part 3
Happy Thursday, Friends! I'm going to try and make this tutorial brief today, if that's even possible. We have had so much busyness going on around our home with Wesley's Senior activities, last High School play, and other various life activities! Fun stuff, but so many activities crammed in a very short time period! Remember Part 1 & Part 2 of our Master bedroom projects? Today is … [Read more...]
Coral & Gold Dresser Turned TV Console-Gallery Wall-Part 2
Hello there, Friends!! Soooo sorry about the long break- I've been in the process of having my blog moved over, and a new blog designed. Janel, worked with me to combine my branding and designed a brand new blog for me and I could not be happier!! Katie, moved me from Blogger and helped finalize all my technical stuff! So happy to be settling in here on WordPress! So where were we … [Read more...]