Kids' Room Projects :: A Sneak Peek!

Here are few pictures of some projects that have now come to completion in our kids' rooms!  All of the details and info will be here soon,  just wanted to give you a little something to peak your interest!

:: coming soon ::

 easy tricks to turn this popular wall decor into a bow holder

these weren't used for just any gallery wall - this one has something special.

I purchased this map on clearance at PB - see how we personalized it for our son's room!

Nothing Like a Sale for a Little Motivation

I just have to say that sometimes I get Design ADD.

I will start on projects in one room and before you know it,

I have ideas for another and kind of abandon ship...

Knowing that I'll get back to it one day.

The project that has been halfway completed that longest is this

gallery wall in my hubby's office.

Every month or so he'll nicely ask when I plan to getting around to it again...

poor little abandoned frames.

This past week I had a nice bit of motivation with some help from

a Typography and Letterpress sale at One Kings Lane.

A couple of frames are on the larger side of things,

so I have had some trouble filling them.

This one was actually larger than I needed, but I figured I could trim it to size.

It's going in the large frame, top left.

I knew Hubby would love this one.  No doubt.
Perfect for his nautical office.

Can't wait for it to arrive.

Now it's time to find two more 5x7 images, two 2x3 images (that might be a little tough),

pick up a matte or two from Hob Lob, pop a sailboat image in another frame, and la-tee-da.

 This wall will finally be complete!

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Come back and let me know what you find.

Project Week :: Summer 2011

Little Man is attending Vacation Bible School Monday-Thursday this week. Which means lots and lots of time for me to check things off my to-do-list!

Below is my tentative schedule...

Perhaps the goals are a little lofty, but I like shooting for the stars!

{Monday} 

Organize closets:

Old Guest Room/ New Nursery

Little Man's 

Hallway 1 & 2

Office

I am already looking forward to sleeping like a baby Monday night, knowing all those closets are orderly and junk has been trashed/ recycled/ donated/ posted on C-List!

{Tuesday}
House Projects
Finish stenciling laundry room
Complete stripping of living room chairs

{Wednesday}
Run Errands Around Town
Pick Fabric:
upholstered rocker
living room chairs
Hit up favorite thrift stores for hallway/ nursery lighting

some of my favorite lighting styles:

{source}

{Thursday}

Sew duvet cover for Little Man's Big Boy room 

the fabric : stripe : navy blue

source

{Friday}

Hubby is off work, so hopefully he can entertain Little Man

while I complete any task left unfinished!

I will try my best to post pictures of the progress each day!

In fact, if you find yourself being productive this week,

share links to your projects in the comments or on 

Peace of Home's Facebook wall!

I'd love to see what all of you have been up to lately!
We may even have a linky party on Friday...
so get busy!

Hallway Runners - ordered!

If you follow me on Pinterest you know that I found 

an amazing deal on a particular hallway runner.

At the beginning of my search I made a mental list of criteria.

Always a great idea, so you don't end up throwing your hearts desire out the window,

just because you find a good deal.

{criteria}

*indoor/ outdoor rug which would hold up to our hallway traffic

*a neutral color that i won't tire of 7 months down the road

*simple pattern but enough to give the hallway some pizzazz

here and here i wrote about runners that had caught my eye,

but in the end I picked one that wasn't on either of those lists.

I was flipping through my favorite Ballard Designs catalogue on a car trip

 a few weeks ago, and I stumbled across this picture of perfection...

love. quatrefoile.

love. gray.

A 2'7" x 8' runner was only $49! 

Which was great because I needed two of them,

and most of my other favorites were $150/ea.

I could order two for less than the price of one of the others I'd liked!

For some reason that didn't make me bite the bullet on ordering hallway rugs.

Then, yesterday, I received a Ballard email informing me that all outdoor rugs were

15% off!

done.

I ordered two of them this morning, and with tax and shipping the grand total was $101.25! 

Now that's a deal that can't be beat.

and the rug meets all my criteria. 

I can't wait for them to arrive on my doorstep.

I'll post pics as soon as they do!

Remember those Louis XVI style chairs...

Those chairs I wrote about here.
Are you surprised that they still look the same as they did 3 months ago? ha.

Well, thanks to Lisa @ A Vintage Vine I have found new inspiration!

She just recently wrote a post about creating her own Wisteria Like Furniture.

Her $9 vintage table was transformed into this lovely.

The look she gave her table is exactly what I wanted my chairs to look like...
something like this.

source

So now I just need to convince hubby that stripping the stain

 and dealing with the harsh chemicals for me is a great weekend project... 

otherwise I'll have to wait until post baby to check this item of my 2011 goal list.

And I am just really getting sick of the fabric on these chairs!

blah.

and once they're refinished I'll recover the front and arms in a twill chocolate fabric

source

and the backs in this plaid, to add a little pizzazz and coordinate with our kitchen stools.

source

I love all the inspiration that is around every corner blogland.

Thanks, Lisa, for re-inspiring me to tackle this project!

Armoire, found!

This post begins the saga of striving to solve the problem of the TV over the fireplace.

My post here told why we ended up with a blank wall space, 

which had my mind's little wheels spinning.

My post here told how we thought we'd solved the empty wall dilemma.

A few weeks ago I wrote this post, almost at my wit's end with looking for an armoire. 

I am so thrilled that now my post today is to tell you that I FOUND IT!

THE PERFECT ARMOIRE!

 It took lots, lots, lots, and lots more patience, but C-List came through again!

I checked it every day, at least once, sometimes twice, and maybe three times if I was feeling desperate!

I had seen an add for this armoire a couple of weeks ago and they were asking 3x my budget.

Last week, I started noticing that each day they dropped the price little by little.

1,000

750

650

500

375

Finally, on Friday the add said 

"$350 or best offer. Pick it up today because the lease on our storage unit ends tomorrow."

They were des-per-ate!

I offered $300 and they accepted!

Hubby took off work early so he could pick up a friend's truck and it was in our house that night!

I breathed a huge sigh of relief, until...

It was WAY too big for this wall.

I wish I'd had a camera for you to see hubby's face.

priceless.

And honestly, I didn't even take a picture of it in that space because I thought I'd made the 

biggest decorating mistake ever.

My mind was racing. What are we going to do with my "dream" armoire?

Now what's going to fill this huge empty wall space?  Maybe I'll get used to this monstrosity. 

What am I going to write about on the blog? Will I even admit that I did this?

PANIC!

Hubby could tell I was losing it, along with being so so super disappointed.

He brilliantly suggested trying it on another wall.

Amazing how your mind can freeze dead in it's tracks when you enter panic mode.

Why hadn't I thought of that?

So we scooted it over to the wall where the loveseat had previously been.

What do we do with the loveseat?

So we moved the couch into the area between the living room & the kitchen,

and put the loveseat in front of the windows.

The poor little thing looked dwarfed.

Here is my disappointed Hubby.

He was googling "flat screen armoires"

Then we moved the couch back to the window wall.

Like.

And we moved the loveseat onto the empty wall.

Like.

Now the plan is to purchase a sofa table for behind the loveseat, 

place two lamps atop, and hang a sunburst mirror on the wall!

In case you're wondering about my chairs-to-be-bleached,

they went one on each side of the white couch.

Truth be told, I hadn't been thrilled with our living room arrangement before,

and now I am so much more in l.o.v.e.

It's cozier and more inviting. 

Along with looking for the sofa table, I am also on the lookout for a new coffee table. 

There is a lot of wood in that room, and I want to break it up with one 

similar to this...

source

Love how one piece of furniture, in our case very large furniture,

has the ability to dramatically change a room!

Sharing my thrifty find over at Shabby Nest's Frugal Friday and Cottage and Vine

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project::office eclectic wall, done!

This past weekend we checked two BIG items off of our 2011 to-do-list,

the first one is 95% completing the eclectic wall!

Hubby's eclectic wall is finished!

well, the frames are hung.

but the pics are the easy part!

(and we're just two small steps away from completing the whole project) 

This might seem like not a big deal, but for some reason that wall intimidated me.

I was so worried that we'd hang all the frames and I'd hate it.

Worse even, I'd hate it and Hubs would love it!

I will admit that even though we followed what we thought was a fool proof plan,

we changed our minds a few times along the road...ha

::before::

::pondering in my pjs::

::1st attempt at positioning the "frames"::

see this post for why we chose butcher paper

::hung the picture we had planned on using in the middle::

eh.

::then scrapped the 1st plan and added a shelf with a boat"

blah. blah. blah.

::starting over the next morning:

::finally, loving the progress::

:: FINISHED:: 

more paparazzi pics of the wall...

The images that I used were from NYPL.

I believe I searched "nautical"

Hubby, his brother Dan, and his dad all traveled to Spain

a few years ago for the America's Cup race. 

The largest sailing race in the world, 

and we're already looking forward to the next one in 2013!

The following two items are historic images from past America's Cup races.

These handsome ocean creatures add a nice touch as well!

Hubby used the chart (map) on the bottom right when he was studying to 

apply for his Captain's License.

There you have it, the ins and outs of the office wall.

Just need to print some more images before officially checking it off my list!

Check back tomorrow to see what other TO-DO we've accomplished!

Sharing my progress with Blue Cricket Designs and Debbie Doo's



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