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Christmas Living Room Sneak Peek!

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I just wanted to share a sneak peak of the Christmas tree in our living room!  I went with a gold & silver color scheme with a few pops of color.

We’ve yet to collect a large amount of Christmas decor for the house so the tree, the mantle, and the front door are about it.
I’ll be posting pics of the entire room in all it’s festive glory later this week!
On the horizon:
  • Living Room- complete but always in progress
  • Foyer- complete
  • Dining Room- complete but always in progress
  • Kitchen- complete

~Katie

Cincinnati Weekend!

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I just returned from a soulful weekend in Cincinnati.  I road-tripped it up there with a darling friend of mine who was headed up for her hometown baby shower (I’m hosting her Birmingham shower in a few weeks….and I’ll be posting a major amount of photos!) and she dropped me off with T, my best friend from college.  T lives in the most adorable historic building on this gorgeous street…



Friday night we hit up the local blues bar and were thoroughly entertained by not only the band, but several creepy older gentleman….no sir, my cell phone does not vibrate…


Moving on….


 Saturday we spent the beautiful morning at a Basset Hound Parade (peculiar, I know) and then headed out for lunch and a day of shopping at Findlay Market.  


We shopped for a while before sitting down to listen to this child play the violin with literally everything in his soul.  It was a perfect moment watching him.





Later we took a drive through the city, as it was my first visit there, while singing Dire Staits songs at the top of our lungs…  Not a pleasant experience for those who may have heard us.


Then we headed out on a party bus with some of T’s Cincy friends for a night of bar hopping.  In a last minute effort, we managed to find the only two adult costumes left at Big Lots and went as Blue Brothers (Sisters) that night.

It was a fun-filled weekend that spawned tons of new inside jokes.  I loved seeing T and I LOVED Cincinnati.  I most definitely will be planning another trip so I can bring the huzzby along!


Love you Cincy!

For sure as the cards will be fallin’

And chips in the pot pyramid, 

for a buck, Lady Luck will be calling

Whoah, the Cincinnati kid

I mean the Cincinnati kid

Whoah, the Cincinnati kid

Whoah, the Cincinnati kid

I’m talking about the Cincinnati kid

Everybody knows the Cincinnati kid

Have you heard about that the Cincinnati kid

~Ray Charles







~Katie

New House! We’re Moving!!

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I’ve been wanting to tell you guys this FOREVER, but didn’t want to jinx anything so I decided to wait until after we closed today!  We are moving in just a few weeks to our new home!  
Before Pic!
Please excuse the poor photo, but it’s all I had on my phone!  The house is in a charming neighborhood just 10 minutes away from our last neighborhood and within walking distance to several of our friends’ homes!  I’m just ecstatic about all of it’s original features:  great moulding, built ins, hardwood floors, a sweet little sunroom, and a screened in balcony off the master!
  In just a few short days, the blue vinyl siding will be coming down and the original 1925 exterior will be getting a fresh coat of chalky white paint, the hedges will be getting a good trim, and I’ll be going into manic decorating mode! Our goal is to get it restored to it’s historically accurate state so we can get that historic marker back up!  (I’m assuming the historical society had a fit when someone decided cotton-candy blue vinyl siding would be a good idea)  Lots of before & after photos to come your way soon!
Anyway…if you’re looking for me in the next few weeks, try the local fabric store! Toodles!
~Katie 

I’m Baaaccckk!!!

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First off, my deepest apologies for absolutely no posts in months.  The truth is, I’m usually apt to post when I’ve got projects going on in my own home, but lately there haven’t been many.  We’re casually thinking of moving and in the process have looked at a few houses on the market.  Seeing all these gorgeous homes have got me mentally decorating like a mad woman.  Today I put together a mood board for what I’m hoping will be my next living room (whenever that happens).  I’ve included some sources if you’re interested…..
It’s a mixture of what I have in my current living room (the pillows, a brown sofa, pops of burnt orange and light blue) with some additional elements like the chair and Michelle Armas painting (she does commission pieces…check her out!).  I like that it has some modern elements to it, but is still pretty traditional.  Our living room walls right now are a light smoky blue and I love the color but it makes decorating hard when your walls aren’t neutral.  I think using main pieces of furniture like wing back chairs is a great incorporate way to incorporate fun colors into an otherwise neutral room.  Hope you like it!
~Katie

Time for a Dinner Party

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 First, let me apologize for my 3 month long absence.  I’ve been out of pocket since our September trip to Jamaica, but I’m back and in full swing, baby!  That said, getting ready for the holidays has been about all I’ve done recently….including planning my first “real” dinner party!  It looks as though we’re hosting some folks for a New Year’s Eve dinner this year so I, of course, used it as an excuse to become obsessed with decorating the table!  Here’s a look that should be similar to mine.  Farmhouse table- check, white table runner-check, now on to adding the finishing touches.
The elements below will make up a majority of the table.  I’m going with a combination of formal and informal.  My every day Juliska Berry and Thread china, gold plate chargers, lettuce-edged linen dinner napkins with my new silver napking rings and a few hydrangea arrangements.
 
Throw in a few candles and the right guests and I’ll think we’ll have a great time!  It will also be the perfect time to take show you the “after” photos of the dining room I’ve been promising for so long!  Hope you have a Happy New Year and check in the first week of January for details from the dinner party!



Things I’m Loving Thursday

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Things I’m loving today…
These sleek initial throw pillows from the beautiful living room of
and this georgous House of Harlow Peacock Cuff I’ve been eyeing for over a year now…
Available here if anyone feels the need buy me a gift in the near future.
Two totally unrelated things, but who cares?  That’s what I’m loving this Thursday!

Fashion for Your Home: Trina Turk

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I like to think of decorating my house as the domestic version of getting myself ready every morning. In the same way I use my clothes as an avenue to express my individuality and taste, I use rugs, fabric, pillows, acessories, paint, etc to style my home.  Curtains in my living room are like a chic scarf on my purse…throw pillows are like earrings for my sofa…you get the idea.  
So it only makes sense that we are seeing a recent trend of fashion designers moving in to the world of interior design.  One of my favorite designers, Trina Turk, has started designing accessories for the home in the past year.  Check out these georgous pillows and how they mesh with her fashion aesthetic.
 Meet Trina here and learn more about what has inspired her fashion and home lines!
As we continue to see more and more fashion lines transition into the interior design arena, it’s certain we’ll see loads of beautiful pieces popping up all over the place! I think it’s time i splurge on a Trina Turk pillow…what do you think?

Fabric Makeover for the Bedroom

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I posted a while back about attempting to find fabric for to update our master bedroom. As it is, there is very little pattern in the room and it’s verging on the side of boring. At first, I was picturing some type of toile but then I happened upon a BEAUTIFUL Waverly fabric called Olana in a scrap bin.


I found just enough to make three euro shams, which is what we need to cover all the way across our California king bed, which looks similar to this:


I then began a restless online search for the same fabric by the yard so I could have a bedskirt made to match the shams.  I was having a hard time finding anything so I’m assuming this pattern is in the wind-down phase. And then suddenly… I hit the jackpot, people.  Randomly searching Etsy for my beloved Olana pattern, hoping someone would be selling their scraps, I found FOUR CUSTOM MADE FRENCH PLEATED CURTAIN PANELS in my exact pattern and color scheme.  Bedskirt?  Pppssshh.  I’m going full on pheasant curtains!  I ordered them immediately, the pleats are being sewn and they should be in our bedroom in t-minus ONE WEEK!  I am so pumped about the purchase!  Now I just have to get my euro shams made and I will have completely transformed the look of our bedroom with nothing but fabric.  I still need a coordinating fabric for bolster pillows, but that’s the last thing on my list!

Today’s Lesson:  Fabric is a powerful thing, readers.  I never knew it could make me feel like this. 🙂