Life after the No Sale - need some suggestions

I know you guys all remember us trying to sell this summer. There have been several things we have made priority of since we will be staying a while longer.

1. all the main rooms in the house are way too multicolored and bright. so find a neutral tone to paint on the walls and neutralize everything
here is what we are thinking.

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2. finally finish putting anna carolines room together. (this is almost almost there, only missing a quilt and a mirror)

Anyone know where I can find a mirror like this?

i found this one on etsy and it sold almost immediately.

3. The final and most challenging issue was our fence. 

My poor friends who have heard me moan and groan about this in person I apologize now for talking about this again. 

After finally contacting over 50 city and state employees our severe erosion issue is finally being addressed. The chainlink fence running along our property is original to the home and circa 1959. This is the citys fence and there has been an extreme run off and erosion problem for quite a while. 

Today as I type they are filling in the hole with dirt and we will have to go back with cement, then rip rap, then a barrier so the dogs cant dig out, then a privacy fence then finally finally landscaping. 

After 4 long years we will finally have a desireable backyard!!!

Here is the before and the during!
Look at the size of this hole.

 

stay tuned for the filling in and progress!

what are your go to colors in your home??

Any tricks to keep dogs from digging?

The party

It is heartbreaking but my camera broke ;( lens is caputz!! All the pictures i have of the party are iphone pics!

Enjoy.

A friend took a few pictures with her camera and i hope to add those soon!

A Perfectly Good Reason

Sooo I promise I have not forgotten about you guys. 

I just happened to have bitten off more than I could chew with our "Off to Neverland" 4th Birthday party!

We had the party yesterday and it was a blast!

I wish share pictures later this afternoon!

A Big Girl Room Rug

As I am sure you all know Dhurri Rugs are all the rage. 

I knew if we were going to be staying in our home a Nice, emphasis on nice rug was going to be necessary for Big Girl's room. 

A 16x16 room needs something in it. 

Since living here we have been through 1 garages sale rug, and 2 remnant carpet pieces. Bottom line is they were not good quality and I was continually replacing them!!

Below is the "ideal" rug for the space. It pulled out the pop of pink I was using as an accent in the room and introduced it in a sophisticated way. 

I am thinking this rug can grow with us as she gets older. 

So... I started saving....

Then one day a few weeks ago a friend of mine called FREAKING OUT!! 

Literally yelling get to the pottery barn outlet NOW!!!

I am thinking this rug can grow with us as she gets older. 

So... I started saving....

$550 isnt terrible by any means.

Then one day a few weeks ago a friend of mine called FREAKING OUT!! 

Literally yelling get to the pottery barn outlet NOW!!!

All the rugs were marked half off!!!

The outlet price was $399.99 marked down to $99.99 the HALF OFF!!!!!!!

I felt the biggest adrenaline rush of my life to get there and get that rug!!

I also bought a small Dhurrie for the Guest House for $25.00!!

Such divine finds!!

So, now all we need to complete this big girl space is a mirror, a headboard, and a few more pieces of wall art!

We decided when we moved back in to move her bed against the wall to give her some more play space. 

(dont worry this greek key lamp is not in here any longer)

Thus far we LOVE it!

Local Home Tour- My favorite House

disclaimer: all of these pictures were taken with my iphone as I am trying to order a new charger for my camera.

And the floor plans:

The first thing you walk in this home and see is the dining room and open living room.

The wallpaper in here was a very bold statement and read very well in the space.

Below you see pictures of the home office. there were way way too many people in here for me to get an overall shot. But the highlighting features were the antler pillows in a burnt umber color and the unique pattern on the tiles in this bathroom. Very strange to me to have a huge full bathroom off the office and no other half bath than the master and this to accomodate guests.

Wet bar back splash and hallway styling.

The kitchen casual entertaining spot was moderately lackluster but the stone fireplaces were in all the homes and the apparent rage. 

This is a view from the stair landing. 

The little girls room was precious and I loved all the pieces in there.

This chest was gorgeous!

These were the details of the Little Boys Room

No, those are not silhouettes, that is actual photography! 

Great local photographer!!

The master bathroom was weird, as were the walk in closets.

Again beautiful furnishings but nothing to write home about in this space.

Where you live do builders get together and build a cluster of high quality homes and do a home show? 

Not going to lie I go for the interiors and styling aspect. 

Not a single one of the homes impressed me enough to vote on the house that I thought won. Lets just say they were all quite choppy and some had 20,000 sq ft home style home theaters which was very very odd. 

These houses seemed to range between 3600 and 5500 sq ft. 

Fabric for sale

I have several yard left of the upholstery fabric I used to recover the chair in our den!

I am selling it for a slamming deal of 5.00 a yard! Retails for over 30. I believe there are 5 yards available!

Let me know if you are interested!

Operation clear out the clutter 2012 is chugging right along and i hope to finish strong completely organized come Jan 2013!!

Camera woes

Soo my charger to my camera has gone AWOL!

I feel so naked to not have my camera go everywhere with me!!

(HENCE THE LACK OF POSTS!)

Just wanted to stop in and tell yall the minute i get a new charger i am going to sign up to take my first online class with Shoot Fly Shoot.

(click the tab to the right to head straight to their site)

(or click the image above)

If you don't know anything about Shoot Fly Shoot one of the guys who runs the site is Kevin, 

as in.. Kevin and Layla 

from the blog the Lettered Cottage.

I have clicked through some of the demo info on the site and let me say I am fired up about learning more about shooting specifically interiors to bring yall some more high quality photography on the blog! 

They are currently offering photo 101 and intro to photoshop elements!

I must say the photography classes I took in college were geared toward fashion and lights and blowing hair, etc so I am ready to brush up on my skills!

Plus my Photoshop emphasis was on Illustrator so this is a great excuse to learn elements!

Click over at the link on the right and check em out! You wont be disappointed!!

Did I mention you can NOT beat the price!