Your opinion matters!

These rooms all have it...

Traditional Living Room by Mill Valley Architects & Designers Mahoney Architects & Interiors

Family Room by Richmond Media and Bloggers Young House Love

A common thread...

Eclectic Living Room by New York Architects & Designers SchappacherWhite Architecture D.P.C.

Do you see it???

Traditional Living Room by Los Angeles Interior Designers & Decorators The Old Painted Cottage

Each room is so different...but it's there...

Modern Family Room by Saratoga Springs Design-Build Firms Witt Construction

and here too!

Traditional Living Room by Salem Photographers Tess Fine

Surely your eyes are drawn to it...just like mine are!

Traditional Family Room by Dallas Architects & Designers McReynolds Designs

I'm thinking I love it....

but I don't make decisions well...I'm finding out!

Mediterranean Dining Room

Do you have it?

Eclectic Dining Room by Other Metro Media and Bloggers Dreamy Whites

I mean...literally...do you have it in your home?

Eclectic Family Room by Norcross Architects & Designers Cynthia Karegeannes, Registered Architect

So many examples of it...

Modern Spaces by Los Angeles Interior Designers & Decorators Emily Ruddo

So many options with it...

Traditional Media Room by Tampa General Contractors Javic Homes

So many colors on it...

Eclectic Living Room by Granville Architects & Designers ENJOY Co.

or maybe not...

Traditional Family Room by San Francisco Architects & Designers Arcanum Architecture

You figured it out didn't you...

these rooms all have walls...

different colored walls...

JUST KIDDING!

Don't go scrolling back to look at the walls...

...it's the white slip covers!...

I am so drawn to them...

I love change...

I want options...

I want different colored pillows on a whim...
I love how said pillows POP on the white...
I don't want to be stuck with 
a gold couch ever again!!

I want rustic one day...

cottage the next...

refined the next...

*Sigh*

What to do??

I think this might be perfect 
for my ever changing mind...

but I'm scared...

Scared of them being a pain to wash...

scared of having to wash them to often...

I drip coffee all of the time you know...

scared of them looking wrinkly and messy (although comfy!)

I threw a white sheet over my current sofa...and thought         "It looks like I'm about to paint"... 

not exactly the look I'm going for... 

I just don't know...

whats your thoughts??

Just for the record...it's dining chairs too...

I'm just hooked!

Tropical Dining Room by Mill Valley Architects & Designers Sutton Suzuki Architects

Please give me your honest thoughts...

I'm strong...

I can take it!

ok...

but tell me anyway!

Sharon

P.S.  They even have slip covers...for the slip clovers...so when you get tired of the white...just buy a new color!


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french country cottage
ivy and elephants

Finally...a little before and after!

It's been a long time since I've posted anything...I've worked on things a little here, and a little there. but no time to finish many projects...and really NO time for blogging about them anyway.  It's been a rough time for our family...first with my sister finding out she had breast cancer last year...and just as she was finishing up her treatment...and doing excellent I might add...it became apparent that my parents were no longer able to stay in their home alone...and we have had to bring in 24/7 care for them. I have been traveling home (about a 6 hour drive) every other weekend for a quite a while now...on top of a full time job...it has been pretty overwhelming. Recently I was given the opportunity to go part time at work, and I have decided to take it! This will help with my trips home...and give me a bit of my life back!

I am super excited about that...and hopefully I will be able to get on a somewhat regular blogging schedule again!

So...all of that being said...It was just one short year ago (ha!) that I posted this post, about changing my kitchen up a bit. 

I thought it was finally time to have a before and after for one of the most dramatic changes that took place in my kitchen...

and here it is...

of course there were a few steps in between...

we removed this cabinet...

and hung it in the laundry room...

Completely just closed off the this...

I mean...who needs food anyway...
it's all about the design right?


so goodbye pantry!...

Ok...so I guess we need some area designated for food...

so let's turn this coat closet...also in my kitchen...

into a pantry...

We can't forget about the floors...

that after much stress and anxiety were finally picked out..

and installed...

and I have to share the fact that we have lived with this for 
months and months and months!!

Until finally...

I have a before and after to share...

It might only be this small little section...

from my entire 1st floor...

but it's done...
and I love it...

for now...

cause I stole that mirror from over my bed...which you can see here

and I'm thinking I might need a shelf or 2 over this buffet???

But for now...

from this...

to this...

so...please tell me what you think!

Does it take forever for you to get things done?
To pick out floors?
to pick out paint colors?

Am I the only one???


I pray your family is happy and healthy...

Sharon

Linking to:
funky junk interiors
romance on a dime
french country cottage

my uncommon slice of suburbia
ivy and elephants
green willowpond
debbiedoos

Redo x 2

Hey Ya'll,

I bet you didn't know I'm a southern bell wanna be?

I always love that southern drawl...it's in my bones...my parents were born and raised in the south...and then moved to Michigan...so I was born and raised a city girl. To this day...I wish I had that southern drawl!  Ask my parents...as a kid, they would put me center stage...and encourage me to perform my twang...whilst everyone laughed (probably AT me) or my kids...who got had to listen to their fun annoying mom...who chose to talk in other lingo's...yeah sometimes it was Italian...what extremes...I guess I was just as indecisive back then as I am today...I drove them crazy...I'm telling ya...just ask em.

What's my point you're thinking?

there isn't one really...but while on the subject I just don't think there is a better way to address a whole bunch of people...or just a few of ya...whatever the case may be...than "Ya'll".

So absolutely none of that has anything whatsoever to do with my post today...I just drank 2 giant cups of coffee...and I think I'm just revved up...typing a mile a minute!

On with the post...yesterday...while looking through my pictures...I came upon a little project that I did last summer...but since my house was in upheaval, and I kind of took an unplanned blog break...I never blogged about it...and thought I would now...since I am longing for warm weather...and it's just around the corner (I hope!)

This is actually a redo of a redo...thus the title of the blog post "redo x 2"

Now the first redo...was prior to blogging...so I have nary a picture of the single wooden chair I picked up at a yard sale for about 3.00...and not a single picture of me painting the chair white...and no pictures of the vintage tablecloth I paid 1.00 for... and found a section big enough without stains to use as the seat cover...and no pictures of the pretty china plates I was able to snag for a mere dollar...nor a picture of me painstakingly cutting those pretty plates... piece by piece...making sure to use only the flattest pieces...and guess what? 

You guessed...

no pictures of me strategically gluing each piece of china...or mixing the grout...or applying the grout...or cleaning the grout...or sealing the grout.

Bummer!

However...I do have a picture of the finished project...

here is a better one of the seat with the vintage tablecloth

 

I was pretty happy with the result...It was my first time doing any kind of mosaic. It sat in my guest room...for awhile. I tire of things quickly though...and I was past ready to get rid of it.

I work at a hospital...and some of the people there were participating in a fund raiser. The money was going to help abused children. They were asking that we decorate a chair and bring it in for an auction.

 The name of the fundraiser was

 "Chair-ish the Children"

how clever is that!

I immediately thought about that chair...

I would donate it! However in reality...the seat was not stuffed enough and it looked lumpy...plus it had since acquired a new stain or two...and the fresh white paint...wasn't fresh anymore...you know nicked here in there...not distressed...just nicked and dirty looking if you know what I mean...so.....

Redo 2

So I removed the stained seat...and brought the chair down to my living room...

you know...that place where you sand, paint, stain...and craft?

There is a plus side to having no floors!

this project is nothing new...you've seen them around for years...but I still think they are cute...and I'm going to show you my version. 

I grabbed some chicken wire and wire cutters... 

that chicken wire can be pretty dangerous (when you're me) so I grabbed my work gloves...
I mean my husbands work gloves...

and began to push the wire down in the seat of the chair to create a bowl...so to speak for my plant.

once I had it the size I wanted I grabbed my heavy duty stapler gun, and stapled the chicken wire all around the seat of the chair...you can't really see the staples to good in the picture...and I may have added alot more after this pic was taken...but you just want to make sure it will hold once you put the plant in.

next for the finish on the chair...I decided to distress and antique a bit...so I sanded it down just a bit to give it a worn look...and then used stain to give it that antiqued look

For this project I was just going to set an already purchased, planted basket of flowers inside the chair (because I was doing this in a hurry...cause I'm a last minute kind of gal...and it's the night before the event...and I have to work tomorrow...and then right to the fund raiser)...however, I wanted the next owner to be able to plant their own plants in it...so I grabbed some Spanish moss and a pot liner (forget what you call them) and placed down inside the wire bowl 

 Because of the "broken china" on the chair...

 and the fact that it was a fundraiser for abused children...
 I decided to add this to the chair...I think it was perfect!

 and here is the finished project...all ready to head to the fundraiser!

sorry for all of the blurry pictures...I was doing this at night...with horrible lighting...well that's my excuse anyway...but apparently  natural light doesn't help (me) much!

Hope you enjoyed my redo X 2!


God Bless!

Sharon


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Reflection

Reflecting on warm weather...

Reflecting on my favorite porch...

on my favorite island...

Reflection of the moon on the water...

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Weekend Reflections

Hey Girl!

 Since Valentines day is right around the corner...and MY Hunk is pretty darn special...

and because I know he's gonna love me plastering his face all over this blog...

I've decided to join in the on the

"Hey Girl"

fun!

If you're in the loop...you've seen the Hey Girl Memes with Ryan Gosling over on Pinterest?

Me...not really in the loop I guess...I had no idea about them until I popped in on Sharon at

 Mrs. Hines Class

this morning and found out about the Hey Girl Linky party over at 
 view along the way

It looked like to much fun not to participate!

Source: viewalongtheway.com via La Doña on Pinterest

Let me just say...if you need a good laugh today...head on over and check out all of the links...some are quite clever...and very comical!


So Bob...this is for you...cause I love you...you're my hunk...and you're such a trooper and you put up with all my shenanigans...

and besides...

 you're not here to stop me! 

 

What a guy...all his "Trophy's" are in the basement...
while I have all other 15 rooms for my "addiction"!

Yeah Baby and their comfortable too!


Last but not least...

and because according to him...we've lost square footage due to all of the layers of paint on our walls!

Smile Bob!

You're on candid camera!

I love you!

Sharon