I am so excited to start slowly rolling out the finished result of our home renovation! It feels amazing to see our dream become a reality and I am honored that you are here for the ride!! We started the plans for this "small" addition in August last year! Well, in reality, I have been planning this addition in my head since the day we unpacked five years ago! When we started the process last year, I have to admit I thought it would be done in January. Silly me. A lot of things set it back. I am grateful to have yet another reminder that sometimes (oftentimes), the waiting for ... Read More
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Favorite Online Shopping Deals and Small Businesses
I have spent my life working for and now owning a small business. I love and appreciate people who create business and offer unique and fun products! I have always been passionate in supporting small business in America and now is a perfect time to support those who are still working hard to take and fulfill orders online! How amazing is it that we can create a cozy HYGGE home with just the click of a button! While we all continue to stay home, so many of us have felt inspired to organize, refresh or decorate a space that we havent had time for before!! Great news! Today I am rounding up ... Read More
Family Room in a Small Cape gets a Major Makeover
I remember the first time I saw this home I had tears well up in my eyes, because I knew I would makeover this entire home. It wasn't an accident we met them, it was a gift to us. We first went to this charming little cape, because Rachel (the mom) had written to us when we asked for local kids rooms to makeover. We selected her son Luke, to do a makeover for. Rachel wasn't home when Kevin and I went to see Lukes bedroom, and looking back, it was a blessing she wasn't. Rachels friend let us in to measure Lukes room, then she asked if we wanted to see all their home. It just needed some love. ... Read More
Mini Affordable Living Room Update with Joanna Gaines Wallpaper
My parents have lived in the home I grew up in since I was about one. Friends have come and gone, but they are just happy where they are. Their yard is great with a garden and bees and the location is very central to everything including family and work. But what wasn't working was their entertaining space, it was very chopped up. And with how much they host, they needed a wall to come down!!! Below is the photos of what their space looked like before. You would walk into a living room on the left, with a wall on your right separating an unused bedroom that they had two recliners ... Read More
Christmas Home Decor in our Small Space- Holiday Housewalk 2019
Today I am joining a huge group of talented bloggers that are inviting us into their home. This is not something I take lightly, it is a joy for me to peek into others lives and how they make their home a place they want to be and for their loved ones. I am going to share an almost complete Christmas Tour of our tiny cape in Connecticut! I had planned on having the front all decorated to share, but it didn't happen, got too cold after Thanksgiving. So stay tuned for that! If you are new to my blog, we are a family of 5 living in a small cape (1100 square feet) in Connecticut. We are a ... Read More
Top 4 Christmas Decor Must-Have’s and Christmas in our Living Room
Added a little Christmas to our living room. I feel like it is similar to our Christmas last year, but then I look at photos last year and it is different. So tell me, do you change up where you put things every year? Or are you a creature of habit and place everything where you always do? I highly recommend mixing it up! That way without adding any new decor everything will feel new and fresh! I thought I would share 4 things that are Christmas Decor Must-Have's. If you have these 4 things, it will feel festive and you will be set! 4 Christmas Decor Must Have's- #1- Tree ... Read More
Living Room Affordable Cozy Makeover
Our good friends, Sarah and Joe have a cape, but very different than ours. They have the traditional stairs by the front door leading to the second floor, like we do, but off to the right they have a really large living room. It is a great space, that I have secretly had the itch to fix it up for her for awhile! Now, I bet you are thinking that you are never going to invite me over. Or the opposite, you want me to come in hopes that I rearrange your furniture in my head, then eventually follow through and do it in real life. I don't judge ANYONE for their home. But I can't help myself ... Read More
New Rug in our Living Room and Cordless Bamboo Shades!
Alright. Alright, I did it. I totally changed the rug in our living room. If you follow me on Instagram there were signs it was coming. I saw a picture from our family room last year and I just loved it. I love a neutral rug in our living room. I just DO!!!! It is calming to me. Calm in the busy that our front room can be. We have amazing built-in bookcases, that I adore and really sold me on this little cape. But like any bookcase they can feel busy. So having something simple to ground it all just feels so right to me. I did love the rug we had in here. But the pink was starting to feel… ... Read More
Living Room Makeover- Choosing the RIGHT Furniture
I have a really great living room makeover to share with you today! I loved how this idea came to me to do this and I will share how these projects come about. But first I want to point out that the inspiration for this living room makeover is to share the importance of choosing the right furniture for your home. Not just bringing pieces you like from an old home or even purchasing new items without a plan. It is so important to consider the flow of your home. The layout. The function. How you will use the room. In this case, a living room that is really the center of the home. It is also ... Read More
Ask a Designer Series- How to make a home Cozy, Small Entry Ideas and More!
First post of the New Year helping my Email Subscribers with their one FREE Design Question for my “Ask a Designer Series”! I offer this service to my email subscribers as a thank you for following my blog and supporting me. It sure is fun to see what my readers are needing advice on! I am answering 7 of your Design Questions today! Starting with a small entry solution, how to make your home cozier and so much more! I also replied to about 10 others via email- some design questions are harder to find inspiration pics for or the design question doesn’t require it. Let’s get ... Read More