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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Pour a coffee & come on in..it's time for a Fall Tour!


Did you pour that cup? Over at our house, it's a beautiful FALL day!! Perfect for sipping coffee all day. Welcome to our home!! 

Fall, that time where you are so ready for cooler weather. Ready to cuddle in with your favorite throws, and sip a variety of favorite hot beverages...my case just keep filling my coffee and I'm a happy girl!!


Chippy paint goodness on a sweet little bench first welcomes you to our front door. My sister made and sent me that burlap pillow a few years ago and its one of my favorites to pull out for Fall.

This year, our family gathered early for Thanksgiving...yes, we just couldn't wait any longer to spend time together!! 2 entire months early..maybe we should just call it a Fall Gathering instead. Farmer families change dates to make it available for all siblings to be able to spend family time together. My gardens cuttings became our centerpieces, which have now spilled into our home.



Our living area is small and cozy!! 

Our galvanized mirror above the mantel is still one of my favorite pieces! I bought it at trade days in Fredericksburg, TX! It has the perfect amount of rust. I was told it was a lid to a chicken feeder..well that pretty much made me fall even more in love with it. 

Every year I pull out our old Gather banner..it's paper, and I hope it never falls apart! My favorite morning spot is in this chair.  Although I dream of a white slip covered sofa, our leather couches have held up to some pretty crazy living for 10 plus years..they are loved and soft and you sink right in!! It's just not right if they aren't being jumped on at any given time, and at this point they serve us well!



Our Living area is filled with layered rugs, feather pillows and a coffee table that calls to have your feet on it. I like our home to be lived in!! Our space is small, yet our family of 6 can easily cozy up together in this space. I love our gallery wall filled with great memories and favorite pieces.


I've really enjoyed our clock after painting it..an inspired piece by The Nester. It had spent its last years boxed away and its a fun piece now.

In our dinning room, hubby made our giant chalkboard. It currently holds memory verses for our little ones who attend awanas. Sometimes it holds chore charts and fun doodles. I think every home should have one, or 2. This coming from a chalkboard lover!!


The chandelier above the table was a thrifting find. A bit of paint and some pretties, and it sparkles up this space!! 



Our all white kitchen with butcher-block counters has my heart. I'd love a farmhouse stuck in the middle of nowhere any day! Sometimes you dream of having a place that isn't at all what you are in currently, and you just wait. Don't wait!! I'm glad I didn't!! A few gallons of paint, changing counter tops and I turned our brown generic kitchen to the one I'd always dreamt of. Yes right here in this cookie cutter neighborhood.


I believe your home should bring you joy. It should be a place you want to be. It's should be the place that makes you relax, makes you want to put up your feet, or makes you want to jump on couches!! 

More of my favorites are the Eat letters made from an old fence and a collection of silver platters. Both unexpected to have side by side, yet beautiful!! 



Last, welcome to where all the porch sittin' happens. We are lovers of the outdoors, and we created an area where we can lounge the most. As I've told you before, this porch can get pretty loud!! Loud is fun, and may sometimes make neighbors wish we were in that dream place in the middle of nowhere!! We love having family and friend over, and if you use the back gate to enter our home, you know you are loved here!!!



Our bar is a favorite, hubby built it after the first few years of living here. As you know galvanized metal is a favorite around here..trimmed in cedar and topped with the prettiest concrete counter top. I asked for a rustic look and he fulfilled my every wish. 

Hubby is a keeper!! 
I adore him and He make this place home more than anything I could pretty it up with.


Here's to more coffee...and daring to make your home your dream, no matter where its located!! Have a wonderful day!!

XOXO,
Naomi

Friday, September 12, 2014

A few Fall changes in our Bedroom!


I'm so excited for fall!!
I've started adding bits of fall into our home. No not so much with pumpkins, but instead it's throws, more feather pillows and comforters instead of quilts. Stuff to help you cuddle up a bit longer!! 


I love our bedroom..I'm still madly in love with our book page wall
I adore it! 
Replacing all our pillows with feather pillows has been so fun. They fluff up so wonderfully. Why haven't I done this long ago?!  These 26x26 from Ikea are my new favorites and made simple covers for them. 
I'm in the process of changing up curtains in here too. I'll share those with you once they are done and up. 


For fall, I've decided to layer our bed a bit. I've collected some amazing table cloths over the past few years and decided to pull out one of my favorites to layer over our white comforter. 


It's such a simple easy way to change your look. This is why I'm simply in love with whites!! 
Our bedroom are usually the last rooms, right?! Not this year..our bedroom was first to get cozier. I can't wait to share more on our Fall spaces!! 


Thanks for hanging out a bit, it's a rainy fall day here...all I wanna do is grab a book and another coffee!! 

 Xoxo,
Naomi 

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

When The Nester inspires..

If you don't follow The Nester, you are missing out! 
I adore everything about her!!
 Her motto: it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. 
She encourages to embrace the homes we are in. 
She inspires..she loves the imperfect, perhaps my favorite thing!! 
She wrote The Nesting Place, which is a book full of not only inspiration pictures, it's full of great advice to love the home, rental or not.



I ohhhed and awwwed over her clock way before her book came out. 
I'd been dreaming of transforming a clock that was given to us for out first Christmas from hubby's parents. 
It's a treasure, yet didn't fit the look I was going for..so it stayed tucked away in a box. 


I was afraid to change it.
So many times we stop right there. 
Afraid! 
Afraid to hurt the giver..I know it stopped me from this little makeover for years! 
Then I realized, it's still that same sweet gift, but I'll love it all the more. 
I asked hubby, he has learned that little projects like this bring me joy and he didn't mind at all with me painting it. 
Some would say pieces like this are meant to stay..yet, why, if it's hidden in a box for no one to enjoy?


Last week, as I was flipping through her book once again, I remembered our clock tucked away. 
It was time..it was time to not be afraid. 
I knew we would love it. 
So I pulled it out and started. 
There were a few ohhhh, what am I doing? 
Will my mother-in-love be hurt? 
Will she love it?
 Am I destroying our treasure?



I love it, hubby loves it and it's the quirky part my kids giggled over. 
It's full of fun and brings sweet joy!!


It's no longer in a box, tucked away. 
It's being appreciated like it should. 
So many times, it's treasured pieces like this, that make you afraid to change them. 
I'm so glad I did!! 
All back to The Nester motto: it doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful!! 



Do you have treasures hidden away? 
I hope this inspires you to reconsider the ones tucked away. The ones you would love even more if you weren't afraid..

Thanks for stopping in,

Naomi