Hello my Friend!

I had a fantastic trip back to Chicago with my girls.  More of that to come…but in the meantime, I keep getting requests to show you what I’ve done with the rest of the house–in the decorating department.  I snapped some quick pics of a couple of the bedrooms for ya.  They’re still a work in progress, but are mostly done.

Did I show you where I ended up putting Wrigley and Goose’s paintings?  I can’t remember.  They’re at the bottom of the stairs now.

Of course the pups had to get in a lot of the shots.

I love, love, love how the spare bedroom turned out.  It’s a bit hard to get good pics during the day with the crazy, bright Florida sun, but you get the point.

Oh–and after seeing these photos I realize that I’m DEFINITELY not a person that irons sheets….obviously!!  Life’s too short for that.

This room has mint green accents.  Target curtains, West Elm bedding, 2 tables that I had and re-painted (here and here), round mirror from Home Goods and artwork by ME =)

I got new platform beds for both rooms too.  It was easy once I found one I liked.  Queen in white for the spare bedroom, King in black for the master.  My goal is to eventually make some slipcovers in cool fabrics that would slide on over the tops of the headboards (hence, the reason I ordered beds with “clean” straight lines).

Can you tell that I am coo-coo for pillows?  I found the big satin Euro ones at BB&B and the mint green square ones all at JC Penney.

Remember this table that used to be silver?  It had a perfect little spot for a fan to fit in (we like fans for noise)….

Onto the Master Bedroom…

The very first purchase I made for this room back in the day was the rug (from Home Goods).  I had no idea what direction this room would take, but I knew it would entail these stripes and the duvet cover I grabbed at IKEA.

oh—and then these curtains made the cut (from Target).  Can you tell that I get a major kick out of mixing lots of patterns together?

I looked for artwork throughout the whole process, but nothing struck me, so I just blew up some pics from Shutterfly for this room….

A couple from the wedding…

and trips to Chicago, Turks & Caicos and NYC for the middle frame.  Eventually this whole wall will also have black frames added and some sort of artwork/decor, etc…depending on what I come across.  I hope to have it extend the entire lenght of the wall within a straight line (the height of the frames that are there now) with a few pops of color.  TBD….

I’d been searching for a cabinet for the TV to stick in the corner.  I saw this one and it nailed the look that I was going for (from Home Goods, but I think it was originally from Pier 1).

I ordered some inexpensive night stands from Target (that I put together-I rock) and replaced the knobs with cool ones from Anthropologie to spice them up a bit.

Since the tables were white, I added a couple of fabric placemats for great color and to protect the tops.  How easy is that to switch out colors when I want to?!

I stumbled across these cheap black letters ($2 each!!) and thought they would be great under the nightstands on each side.

I had been obsessed with mirrored furniture for awhile, but it’s expensive and I’m guessing hard to keep clean with puppy noses, so I added mirrored and clear accessories for the effect instead.

Not sure that it comes across, but the pop of color in this room is more of an aqua.

Hi Goose.  The opposite wall is blank right now–until I find the perfect pieces of furniture/wall decor for it…

The lettered frames that used to be downstairs went awesome up here now.

The spare bathroom also got a new color scheme.  Mint green like the spare bedroom.

When I found that big green candlestick, I knew that was going to be the direction I was heading for in there.  I had those little black shelves and got a wavy white frame (Home Goods) to replace the ugly “mirror sheet” that I had removed.

Cute little accessories…

More knobs from Anthropolgie.

I’d seen on Pinterest a few pictures of showers with 2 curtains that opened in the middle…so I did it too (I found the perfect patterned ones at Burlington Coat Factory).  It makes it so much easier getting in and out from the middle, rather than on an end–especially for such a small space.

Kate Spade towels and rugs from Bed Bath and Beyond and it was a wrap.

The office is at a stand still for now–but it’s the room that has the yellow chevron curtains…I’ve got to do some more thinking about painting a big piece of furniture (prob the same yellow) and wall decor.

I’m going to do a big post soon with pictures of all of the rooms in the house, but this is a start.  I just had a bunch of my girls over and everything was a huge hit…it all looks so different from the gold/tan/brown tuscany feel we’d had for years.  

How times a change….gray, black and white are the rage for 2012 and I couldn’t be happier with everything.  

See ya!