Looking to add a little decor to your home? Do you prefer simple, sensible items, airy spaces, and just the right combination of luxe and rustic? Consider adding some farmhouse style decor to your space! And no, you don’t even have to live on a farm. We’ve found 15 DIY Farmhouse Decor Ideas to help you capture the farmhouse style and add charm to your home! Farmhouse style used to mean rural areas, building materials that were available locally, and a porch. The farmhouse usually had a formal area up front, and a business end (a functional kitchen where harvested produce… [Read More]
Everything You Need for a Pretty Aqua Blue Kitchen
I’ve said many times before, one of the easiest ways to save money on food is to cook at home, and cook from scratch! But you can’t turn into a frugal chef overnight, especially if you’ve been using packaged meals or eating out frequently for a long time. That type of eating and cooking just becomes a habit, and habits can be hard to change. But you know an easy way to make at-home scratch cooking more fun? Having a pretty kitchen! And you don’t even need to do an expensive kitchen renovation. All you need to do is create… [Read More]
20 Original Ways to Decorate with Chalk Paint
Those of you who have been following this blog for a while know that I believe strongly that all you need is some paint to revamp a piece of furniture. Other DIY ideas also help, but paint is often the first thing I go to when I want to change up my decor and don’t want to spend a lot. I’ve used a lot of different paints over the years, but one of my favorites has to be chalk paint. I just love how it looks and how it feels, and it also makes it easy to distress furniture! If you… [Read More]
Some Different Things That I Collect
I wanted to share some photos of different things that I collect that are part of my decor before I pack them up. I have 4 bookcases in the living room from Ikea that have extenders on the top where I house some of my collectibles. Fortunately I’ll be able to take the bookcases with me. I’m just not sure I’m actually going to be putting some of these collections back though (not sure I’ll use the extenders). Quite a bit will be sold in the garage sale we’ll be having before we move. This is my collection of roosters…. [Read More]
My Entryway Makeover
Our house will be on the market next week (I’m exhuasted!) so I can start to show you some of the changes we made and I’ll begin with my small foyer. Below is a before photo of my entryway. I tried to make the best of a small space to give it some personality. Among the many things I sold is my red hall tree (which originally came from Goodwill). We packed away all the vintage dog prints and the dog plates except one. We took everything off the walls (opposite the halltree I had a set of three Katie… [Read More]
Happy Yellow Living Room Decor
Most of you know that I love decorating with yellow ! So I wanted to share with you some yellow pillows that I’ve been using this summer in the living room (which is a light shade of yellow) and a cute wreath that I made. Below is a book page cone wreath I made a while a go and spray painted yellow. Love it! You can still see some of the print of the book pages. I tried to spray the center more yellow than the outside part (I thought it would be sort of flower like) but it didn’t… [Read More]
Fresh Look For My Small China Cabinet
Hi! I was looking at my small black china cabinet that’s in my dining room and realized that I hadn’t changed the flowers in the planter on top of it since last fall! It still had fall hydrangeas and bittersweet in it. So since we had a few days of stormy afternoons I thought I’d do something fun for a change and fix up my china cabinet! Painting walls & scraping wallpaper is not as much fun as it used to be 🙂 So this cabinet is narrow and the shelf space is teeny. You can only get small things… [Read More]
Bronze and Gold Christmas Decorations
I actually am not doing whole lot of Christmas decorating this year (really!) I had so much planned! I even found some ice skates at Goodwill during the summer which I planned to use this year and I was going to make a whole bunch of stuff. But all of that is out the window. I don’t mind putting decorations out…I just don’t feel like putting them away! But I did decorate my shelves in the dining room with some bronze and gold Christmas decorations! Have a look. Some decorative stuff I already had since I used to do a… [Read More]
