welcome!
this is our house as it looked in august of 2006.
we've worked really hard on it.
let's start inside, shall we?
this is our bedroom
i looooove this bedroom.
the paint is pebble beach by benjamin moore.
i do not mean to exaggerate but pebble beach is the best paint color EVER.
the room was this awful mud green when we first moved in.
we experimented with beige/gold tones before settling on the gray.
gray wins times a hundred!
(see?)
(cute husband)
the dressers and tables in the room are from the hemnes line at ikea.
when we first moved to idaho we had zero furniture. we had sold everything before moving to new york city, and when we pulled into moscow we had absolutely nothing to put in our teeny house. so, we went to ikea.
$1,500 later and we had bought everything.
sofas
tables
chairs
beds
dressers
odds&ends&bric-a-brac
serious as a heart attack about that ikea.
the antique game trophy over the head
once belonged to a deer.
i found him at the antique mall on washington and he now belongs to me.
his name is bambi.
bambi's first week at home was very confusing for peter pan.
at night he would cower under it,
not sure what to think.
(most people aren't sure what to think about bambi, but i love antlers, as you will see later.)
the chair is from goodwill and he was five bucks.
i recovered his seat with some linen, and now he lives in the living room.
we found these blue stools at pier 1 in lewiston one day
when we were shopping for fencing lumber at the home depot
and i said "buy these for me, holbsy!"
(that was the one time in my entire life that that line actually worked.)
i'm really happy with how this room turned out, i gotta say.
tomorrow:
the living room
(some befores, so you can truly appreciate!)
isn't this fun?
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH love decorating...bed room is divine.....cant wait to see more, what a fun idea
ReplyDeleteYou bedroom looks comfy. You have turned it into a beautiful space...
ReplyDeleteI love your bedroom! I have the very same bed from ikea! i am looking into giving my bedroom an extreme makeover this summer, involving the tearing out of pink carpet from when i was six and replacing it with maple hardwood, painting the walls pale sea blue, and some new furniture. i am considering the hemnes line from ikea, but in black. looking forward to seeing the rest of the house!
ReplyDeleteI have the some hemnes dressers in white in our bedroom, too! One on each side of the bed so they act as nightstands at the same time. I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em!
ReplyDeleteI'm just saying if you love antlers than you should take a trip on down to Connie and Lane's...
ReplyDeleteAdorable! And I'm liking the blue stools a lot. Interestingly, they are close to the color I want to dye my hair. Sadly, I think my boss's boss's boss would frown if I dyed it that color. But I'd be happy! : )
ReplyDeleteI love watching home makeovers! And the pebble beach walls are fantastic:)
ReplyDeleteThese posts are my kind of posts! I love stuff about home decorating. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same bed in our guest room...as soon as I saw that at Ikea I knew it was the perfect bed...love it..! Thank you for sharing your photos...especially the before's and after's!
ReplyDeleteDUDE--please convince Karl that it's totally okay to drop $1,500 on home decor at Ikea. I rarely buy more than a pack of tealights from that beloved store. My home decor consists mainly of cast-offs, freebies, and weird stuff from Craigslist and Goodwill. We've never spent more than $500 at a time on ANYTHING for our home--and those three $500 purchases were on a bed, a couch (finally), and anothe bed when our first one gave up the ghost. I look around my house and sometimes want to torch it to the ground!!! ('Cause then we'd be out, what...$50? Assuming I move the couch and bed out first!)
ReplyDeleteIkea is a wonderful place. You can do a whole house's worth of furniture and decor shopping in one day, at a reasonable price.
ReplyDeleteBut I think you can achieve a beautiful home with vintage stuff, too. It just takes longer to collect, and you have to be more careful about selecting pieces that will look good in your rooms, with the stuff you already have. I don't live by an Ikea (so sad, wah), but I make do with old stuff in stylish ways.
Using slipcovers and re-upholstering (like that cute chair pictured in the bedroom) is a good way to change things up without buying new.