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Upstairs, the keyword is minimal I think this year. I just put out a tray of ornaments and some small bottle brush trees and called it good. Some are bottle brush, some are wood, some are ceramic, and some are mercury glass.
Update #1: Bringing These Bookshelves Up From The Kitchen
Another whole 8×10′ rug could be placed right here without touching the one in the TV zone. Our original backyard was perfect for our wedding, but all that weeding and trimming was incredibly time consuming on a regular basis.
Monstera Deliciosa – Plant Care Guide
Also in the wish-they-still-sold-them category, these leather ottomans are from Target maybe 4 years ago? I am in love with them and wish they’d bring them back. And yes that’s our beloved air purifier in the corner there with the gray cover. It blends in so much better than the old black cover we used to have. We also get asked where things like trash cans are in our rooms.
Young House Love Has A Podcast
It’s wild to think that this is our second year of decorating this house for the holidays (what even is time?!). You got a peek at some of it in our new kitchen door post, but today we’re gonna show it all! I’d describe Year Two in this house for the holidays as a more minimal Christmas but still a festive one. Glad you’re making podcast episodes again, even if they won’t be weekly. I will say, even if you don’t do as many DIY projects as before, I would find it interesting to listen to more regular content about your broader lifestyle and approaches to living happily as a young family.
Update #3: Moving The Desk To This Window (& Making Faux Legs To Recess It Into The Sill)
And just because you have kids or pets doesn’t mean you’re sentenced to floors that are overrun with toys or furniture covered in plastic. Through never-before-seen makeovers in our own house, doable DIY projects, and a gallery of other inspiring spaces, Lovable Livable Home shows how beautiful homes can be functional too. I realized I didn’t show you how the other side of the tree looks, but you can see from this pic of the kids starting to decorate it that it doesn’t really get in the way of anything. We have a big potted plant here the rest of the year, so the only real difference is that the tree is taller. But nobody was walking into that corner nook before, so it’s all good function-wise.
Two Days In St. Petersburg Florida With Kids
Here’s how it all looked after a few years of upgrading it. As for what we did, we arranged those shelves and painted the back wall of the built-ins. We also added a giant 70″ table, some $62 patio chairs (from Target on clearance), and some homemade curtains with a fun bold print.
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The bookshelves fit really well between the windows on that long wall, and their larger scale is great in this room (earlier we had some smaller things on those slices of wall – which you can see here in this post). Here’s the sunroom after painting the walls and ceiling, unifying the odd patch of brick on that back wall with more paint, adding some art, and bringing in some functional storage. While we’re praising things we’ve had for a long time that are SO FLEXIBLE for multiple uses and spots in your home, these Fjalkinge bookshelves from Ikea are the GOAT. They can hold plates and cups and cookbooks in a kitchen, crafting & art stuff as well as home office supplies in an office or craft room, and books & decor stuff for any sort of living space.
A Weekend In Palm Springs With Kids
We also widened the doorway that leads to the sunroom and the kitchen for a more open vibe, and created a functional little “mudroom” in one corner and a cozy little office nook in another. Also please take a moment to appreciate the inflatable weiner dogs that live across the street at our neighbors’ house. We have the very best neighbors and their love of dachshunds knows no bounds (they even have a “Happy Halloweiner” inflatable that we get to enjoy every October). There are some other very festive houses nearby, so it’s definitely beginning to look a lot like Christmas – even at the beach when it’s 75 degrees. Also, legos on the floor is real life, so please enjoy. The majority of these legos are from John’s childhood and his mom saved them all these years and now our kids play with them.
And after scrolling through this page, you can see all the before & afters here. Psst- If you’re looking for something in our beach house, click here – and if you’re searching for something in the duplex, click here. Here’s our backyard as it looked when we got the house. All wild and weedy and full of quickly-spreading liriope. Here’s the hallway after we hung a ton of frames (see how we did that here and here) on both sides of the wall for a playful wallpapered-with-frames effect.
We also upgraded the knobs with $2 finds from Hobby Lobby. And here’s the exterior after we limbed up that house-dwarfing magnolia, painted the front door, transplanted a ton of fence-like bushes that completely obscured the view, did more planting/bush removal, and planted grass in all the bare patches. And here we have our well-traveled Quirk cup, which moved with us from Richmond. But we painted the pink house this color, fully influenced when John’s sister Carrie walked into a Christmas party a few years ago holding it. It’s very special to us, two very sentimental non-coffee-drinkers. Also, I feel like people don’t put their desks in front of windows enough.
It was very graceful and not at all awkward looking. This view certainly has come a long way from February of 2020 when we bought this house. Photos never do this room justice, to the point that almost everyone who comes up here after seeing photos online (or just via texts from us) screams that it’s twice as big when they’re standing there in person. If it helps to orient you, the rug you see the sofa sitting on in the photo below is an 8 x 10! So we enlisted some free labor on Craigslist and had the yard cleared in an afternoon. Then we planted some grass for a simple and scenic area that’s a lot easier to maintain (see a full exterior breakdown here).
It took us about four months, but we chugged along. Here’s the reveal post with a ton of budget and source details. Oh yeah and then we got some craigslist swivel stools and added a homemade basket pendant light in the fireplace area and repainted the walls (the second time was the charm).
It makes the desk closer in depth to the bookcases that flank it, which feels really good in the space. This is the office/art side if you spin around with your back to the sofa. This entire area exists on the other half of the room.
