Showing posts with label bedroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bedroom. Show all posts

Master Retreat

Our master bedroom has been mostly complete for the majority of the time we've lived in the new house. You may remember glimpses of our room shown here, here, and here.

However, our sitting area was missing. Two old chairs were being updated and reupholstered, and this past weekend, they were finally finished and delivered to the house! We've had the chairs for almost 15 years and were great chairs, but they were in serious need of an update. The picture below, although small, gives you an idea of the before. 


We had the upholsterer (same one used for all our projects) remove the old fabric from the chairs, cover the chairs in a white muslin, and make new slipcovers for the chairs. In addition, we had pillows made for each chair.


I'm so happy with the results! It's hard to believe they're the same chairs. We've placed the two chairs by the windows in our room, with a small table and vintage fan.



Now that the chairs are finished, our master feels complete! Although we have ideas for further changes in the future, we are content with how the room feels at the moment. 

Lately

Happy Weekend! 

Here's what has been going on in our house lately:

We had a built-in ironing board in our last house, so the small ironing board I bought for us to use in this house just wasn't cutting it. Rodney installed a regular ironing board in the back of our closet earlier this week.


The chairs we have in the two corners our foyer (to use for additional seating when people come over) were painted last weekend with the wonderful help of my parents with a gray-blue paint finish and recovered with new fabric.



Finally, the bedside pine table in our master bedroom was also repainted with a beige-gray finish and switched sides of the room to make room for the new dresser. The before picture of the natural pine is pictured below on the left, with the new finish pictured on the right.


Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Be Our Guest

This weekend, our girls and my parents will be staying in our house for the first time since we moved in! I spent the week making sure their rooms were ready for their arrival. Below is one of our two guest rooms, the one Emily and Molly will most often stay in when they come to visit. 


Although they won't have their room when they stay here, we gave them each their own space, including their own mirror to use when getting ready. I purchased the mirrors at a Salvation Army in Austin over Thanksgiving and had our painters paint them both white. 


The twin beds have grey and white John Robsaw shams (from my favorite store in NYC - ABC Carpet), as well as other pillows and shams from Home Goods and Target. 


The bird quilt on the bed is actually a throw I found at Anthropologie just before the move. I was excited because the other side is grey which I thought made them perfect to use with the John Robsaw shams. The dust ruffle is a recent purchase from Target. 


The throws at the ends of the bed are also from Target and are several years old.  


In keeping with the bird theme found in the bedspreads, I decided to put one of our bird cages in the room. I am currently looking for one of our antique bird prints in the black hole storage unit to add as well. 


The room also has a fireplace that doesn't actually work but still is a pretty addition to the room.


Finally, bedside tulips complete the room for our Easter weekend guests! 


The girls and my parents will be arriving over the next few days, and we are excited to spend the weekend with them. In the future, we look forward to having many more guests here in our new home!

Subtle

Can anyone spot the subtle change we made in our bedroom yesterday?


If you guessed "white baseboards," you are correct! Yesterday, our painters returned and painted our trim, baseboards, and a few doors white. We used Benjamin Moore's Snowfall White. I personally like the contrast of the antique white walls and stark white trim. 


Previously, the trim and baseboards were the same red color found in the kitchen cabinets (before we painted them). 

The painting continued in our bathroom (one of the doors that was painted white) and the trim around the windows throughout the house. The doors that are stained dark will stay the same.


Also, as I mentioned over the weekend, we were wanting a dresser for our master bedroom, and we found one yesterday! We visited The Bear Market, a nearby antique store, and as I was searching, I was greeted by one of our old neighbors of 12.5 years, who I didn't realize owned the store. It was such a treat. 


While there, we found a dresser that I really love, especially the detailing and crackle. It is also a good size for the space, as the large room tends to swallow furniture. 


I didn't buy it while I was there, but sent the owner a text today claiming it and will pick it up later today. I am going to discuss paint finishes with my parents this weekend. 

Enjoy

As I mentioned Saturday, we are starting to feel settled in the new house. We finally got the chance to enjoy a nice weekend at home after having been on vacation over Spring Break. A nice weekend at home included a wonderful warm home-cooked meal on a cold day and relaxing in our living room.



We also made a few strides this weekend in decorating the master bedroom. I got the chance to hang my white platter collection, which was in our previous home's guest bathroom, (below on left) over the new covered headboard. We purchased our headboard from Pier One Imports a few weeks before our move. One of the shams on our bed (below on right) is a pillow I purchased on my recent trip to NYC at John Derian Dry Goods on 2nd Avenue. It was one of the treasures I found after a very cold walk to the store in January as I anticipated our move to the new house.


The other shams on the bed are from Pine Cone Hill (left), and Pom Pom at Home (right). 


Here is our master bedroom at the moment with the updates we made over the weekend:


The antique oil painting that hung above our bed in the old house is now on the wall across from our bed. The space below it would be a great place to put a bench. Also, Rodney recently hung a pendant shade in the bay window (where our slip-covered chairs will go when finished). 

Below are the entry way to our bedroom (left) and view when you walk inside (right). 


A few changes that still need to be made include: painting the trim and baseboards white, adding our two slip-covered chairs, and finding a dresser to go beside the bed.

Hope you enjoyed your weekend! 

Getting Started

After moving everything out of our old house yesterday, we started the task of finding a home for everything in our new house!

At the moment, we still have boxes EVERYWHERE!

But, we've made a little bit of progress as well! We decided to make the previous owner's dining room into our living room.

 The couch we also had in our last house was recently reupholstered and has found its home in our living room. 

We also had our old toile chair updated with a neutral fabric and nail heads.

We have made a bit of progress on the bedrooms as well.
Left: our guest room (where Emily & Molly will stay when they visit home)
Right: Annie's bedroom (we still haven't found her comforter in our mountain of boxes)

We are happy with our progress so far and are excited to see everything start to come together. Until then, we will be unloading boxes and finding homes for all of our belongings! :)