Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts

Monday, March 18, 2013

A dog and design




After many years of convincing, and the pressure of my entire family, we adopted a puppy. I found him on an adoption site 4 treturous  not so long months ago. His beautiful blue eyes and short coat, his wet nose snuggling on my neck when we went to "see" him, sealed the deal. So a few weeks befor Christmas, we got a dog. Atticus, he was already named as part of the mocking bird book characters and we liked it!


Here he is a few weeks ago with my daughter Sophia. (Notice our son Jordan who the dog was mainly for is not any where around!)

Which brings me to my next series of photos. I had a nice coffee in the morning sitting area we used instead of a breakfast area, with these fabulous chairs from Z gallerie and bench from Ballard Designs.  Notice it looks fairly peaceful, until now...
Before...

Notice the lovely gate and old rug

And the destroyed chair.....

Not only has that roomed changed but pretty much the whole first floor! Thank goodness for the trusty old brown leather sofa, for once I'm not ready to throw it out. All pillows removed of course. Aluminum foil so he doesn't think he's king of the hill and lays on the couch. And of course a missing Pottery Barn Rug, due to frequent marking.....
Just lovely





Love to know anyone if else has shared in this decorating misery....

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Love it or Fear it, rooms with color to inspire...


65' in Washington DC has me ready for the beach! Ok, so it's a little early, but I have already put away all the gloves and hats and brought out a few things to spring up the house. Although I am tied down to the infamous "everyone has one with kids my age and now our crazy dog Atticus " brown leather couch.... I am working out a new color color scheme for the whole main level. Now when I say color  I mean my new neutral Greige and a few pops of color!


These rooms help those that love color and those that (uh um) fear it, get excited about spring and all it's wonderful colors.  You don't need to change much just a little to mix in your own style!


Color scheme
Wow ..how to dress up a blah Pottery Barn sofa.
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black + white pop of pink