It’s week 2 of the One Room Challenge at Calling It Home – if you caught my week 1 ORC post then you know that I took on the challenge of transforming my tween daughter’s bedroom over the course of six weeks. This week, the major progress on her room has been paint! Bye-bye lilac walls, hello Sherwin Williams Lucky Green! I kinda panicked when I first opened the paint can because it looked so bright green and the first coat looked pretty day-glow awful. But after the third coat (yes, third), it looked totally different. I love it! I also made some […]
House Tour: Tween Bedroom
I knew that my daughter had officially entered her tweens when she asked me if she could please have a new bedspread. Her old one (pastel fairies) was apparently too “little girl”. My daughter picked out her new quilt but loved the idea of the rest of her room being a surprise so she moved into the guest room for several weeks while I painted and decorated. There was a strict no-peeking rule so that we could do a big HGTV-style reveal after her room was done. I’ll never forget the huge smile on her face and how she kept […]
Tour of Coastal Living’s 2012 Ultimate Beach House
Monday mornings are always a bit rough but this one’s a little rougher than usual because we just got back from our annual family vacation in Rosemary Beach, Florida. Meaning… goodbye to reading in a lounge chair on the beach, mixed drinks by the pool, dinner after dinner than I don’t have to cook, ice cream & goodies from the “Sugar Shak”, and endless smiles and laughs from my girls and their cousins. Of course, I took my share of pictures to remember the trip by and while I won’t bore you with the family shots, there’s a group of […]
