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world of art vibrant color and bohemian charm i hope that you ll join me in my new journey even though it is so very different from my previous one i am working on a new blog and i will be posting here to let you know the location as soon as it is complete and ready to go thank you so incredibly much for your patience and friendship and i hope to see you soon with much love kim 76 comments a cottage bedroom the marmalade makeover h ello friends and hello 2013 i hope this brand new year finds you and your family happy and well we ve been chipping away at this little house and today i have a bedroom makeover i d like to share with you i believe the last time i wrote about a cottage style bedroom makeover was back in 2010 when we installed the hardwood in our youngest girls room well this month we were able to work on our oldest daughter s room while she was away on a trip this is the last room in the house that needed hardwood and i am so glad that job is behind us i neglected to take any before photos before we moved her furniture and things out because a we had very little time for the project and i just wanted to get down to business and b oh it was so ugly imagine gray berber carpet that was well over a decade old and tired beaten up periwinkle walls i did catch a shot with my cell phone right after we ripped the carpet up and began patching the walls as you can see we did some work on the closet enlarged it actually for some reason originally there were two small closets on one wall which resulted in wasted closet and wall space so we combined the two closets much better all primed and ready for paint after the paint was on the walls we installed hardwood bruce 3 4 oak in a finish called marsh added crown moulding and finally added farmhouse style baseboards and window trim we will add a wood plank ceiling down the road still not a fan of the popcorn again i didn t have a lot of time to take in progress photos though i wish i did so what color did my girl request for her room orange i have never used orange myself but she is a teenager and knows what she likes i found a shade called marmalade by behr which i thought might work well and so i hoped for the best i gotta admit when we first put it on the walls i was a little hesitant but i don t think a more perfect color could have been chosen i was worried about how the wood finish and traditional style of her furniture would work with such a bold color but i think adding lots of crisp white and refreshing complementary blues helped to bring it all together i had toyed with the idea of introducing some shades of green and had actually bought a pretty green striped rug but it seemed out of place so i searched for another one and was thrilled to discover this rag rug at ross for 12 in the exact shade of blue i felt the room needed the thing about having children and especially a teenager is that your idea of what looks nice and their ideas are often quite different so before we moved all of my daughter s things into the room i had fun photographing a few accessories that she would never go for shells and teacups and pretty books about the beach for instance this table is actually a small white table topped with a larger painted framed mirror i needed a table for another photo shoot a few months back and had a mirror hanging around in the attic why not i glued burlap to the mirror let it dry completely and then simply painted it the curtains were from target i had a hard time finding what i liked in the length i needed 95 so i was pretty happy about finding these and they were very inexpensive at 13 a panel i used four panels total for a fuller look it s hard to tell from the photos but the curtain rod extends 9 inches from each side of the window making the window appear much larger than it actually is i found this sweet little lamp at ross it was actually the first thing i found for the bedroom after the paint was on the walls when i saw the blue i knew it would be just lovely with the marmalade walls if you ever find a vintage globe while out thrifting buy it just do i have to admit i m a little sad that my girl chose not to leave it in her room but that s ok i ll use it elsewhere again the before in progress shot and the same space now love the chunky trim it s just 6 wide pine easy peasy to install with no mitered cuts the crown moulding was easy too with those nifty corner pieces we painted the trim and doors ultra pure white by behr the doors still need another coat we added the wood appliques bought at lowes to these doors as we have on all the other doors in the house just a little something pretty the inside of closet still needs shelving and a clothing rod but that s another project i m on the lookout on craigslist for a desk and bookshelf for this wall it s a little bare now my only regret is that we weren t able to get to this room much sooner my baby leaves for college in another state at the end of august i m not even going to think about that right now needless to say i hope this year goes by muuuuuch slower than the last edited to add before i began my search for coordinating colors and accessories i found the color board below on pinterest and fell in love this is what inspired me to try to add some green to the room it would have worked well if the rug i bought wasn t striped it really clashed with the patterned lamp shade and made the room feel busy and disjointed but as you can see from this color board with a good balance of the right patterns these colors work beautifully together i hope you enjoyed this bedroom makeover and i can t wait to share more projects with you in 2013 i have an ambitious list of goals to tackle as time and money allow and i thank you so much for continuing to be here to share this journey with us may your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness i hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you re wonderful and don t forget to make some art write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can and i hope somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself neil gaiman 59 comments down the rabbit hole what is real asked the velveteen rabbit one day does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick out handle real isn t how you are made said the skin horse it s a thing that happens to you when someone loves you for a long long time not just to play with but really loves you then you become real does it hurt asked the rabbit sometimes said the skin horse for he was always truthful when you are real you don t mind being hurt does it happen all at once like being wound up he asked or bit by bit it doesn t happen all at once said the skin horse you become it takes a long time that s why it doesn t often happen to people who break easily or have sharp edges or who have to be carefully kept generally by the time you are real most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby but these things don t matter at all because once you are real you can t be ugly except to people who don t understand once you are real you can t become unreal again it lasts for always margery williams the velveteen rabbit meet our two new cottage babies that we brought home in the spring talulah tippytoes the snuggler the follower the funny bunny the girly girl and her sister little bea sugarwhiskers the observer the thinker the curious mastermind of adventure the please pet me but do not hold me or i will taste you with my teeth girl they are both pleased to make your acquaintance even bea really 19 comments goodbye fall hello winter i n just about three weeks my favorite season of the year will officially give way to winter whether i m ready for it or not delicious autumn my very soul is wedded to it and if i were a bird i would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns george eliot the coats hats and gloves have been out for a few weeks now frosty windshields have already been scraped a time or two and it s a rare tree around here that still has any straggling leaves near the end of fall i always search for and begin observing a tree in my yard that has just a few leaves remaining then fewer then fewer still then three two one singular leaf i like to see how long the last one can hang on a little leaf one winter hung on the entire season though i m not overly fond of cold weather i appreciate the fact that winter has it s own unique way of slowing us down and turning us inward both literally and introspectively i welcome both after a busy summer and fall one fun project that i enjoyed near the end up of september was a little fall piece i did for the october november issue of sage magazine the theme of the issue was cozy so i decided to take advantage of the fair weather and do a couple of outdoor scenes in the spirit of romantic glamping or as i ve learned in the last year or so glamorous camping i don t know much about glamour but i certainly do believe in whimsy and magical places and pretty little things that just make a girl smile so we built a tent out of a simple frame and sheets blankets and even curtains inside we filled it with a cozy feather mattress quilts throws and pillows perfect for outdoor reading or a nap call me old fashioned but i love crocheted shams and bedcovers there s just something romantic about them i made the brown paisley pillows can you believe i didn t sew my fingers together not even once i also thought it would be sweet to make a pennant banner from various fabrics to string along the top of the tent ceiling i m so glad you can t see the ahem interesting stitching lines i sewed across top of it i wanted this little tent to have a hanging lamp so i took an old shade and stripped it down to it s metal frame then i just knotted strips of linen and burlap all the way around adding accents of tulle along the bottom the light is a battery operated candle in a little mason jar for the dinner tablescape i went with a collection of items that i felt would work well for both fall and winter indoors or out of course i had to throw on a crocheted tablecloth to set the stage along with a green garland and plenty of pops of red with apples a rose and hydrangea arrangement from hobby lobby i tucked in real sprigs of baby s breath to help fool the eye and some homemade tomato soup i can never seem to pass up those tiny little glasses that i m always seeing at thrift stores i put them to use by wrapping them with various things such as cinnamon sticks and adding tea lights hint secure the cinnamon sticks with a rubber band first then cover the rubber band with fabric a fabric strip here s another little glass that i covered in linen and converted into a candle holder just sweet and simple i really loved the shape of this lamp shade but not the original fabric so i stripped it down to the metal frame and recovered it in a piece of crochet work that i found years ago at goodwill i m pretty happy with how it turned out but it was a bit tricky getting the scallops to sit just right it kind of killed me to cut into the crochet because i wasn t sure if i was going about it correctly and like i said i ve had this piece for years ever had one of those this could be fabulous or it could be a total failure kind of projects this was definitely one of mine and i was a more than a little skeered let me tell ya but sometimes you just gotta take those risks because you never know i ended up using any extra crochet work that was cut off as trim on the brown paisley pillows so it all worked out i used another little mason jar with a battery operated candle to light it up and hung it from a tree branch with cotton string above the table are we all still singing the praises of wooden pallets i know i am i had taken a before shot of what this pallet looked like originally but i took it with my cell phone and then recently dropped my phone in the toilet ugh but just imagine an old beat up wooden pallet i stained it a nice rich brown and it became the perfect low lying picnic dessert table set atop my adored chenille quilt that i affectionately call grandma blanket don t judge she was a very inexpensive find at old time pottery many many years ago and she seems to just get tougher with age isn t that exactly what a grandma should do anyway also there is a grandpa blanket but we ll feature him another time more little homemade candle holders using various items such as burlap twigs tulle and lace doilies hint turn a small container upside down drape a doily over it and spray several coats of spray starch letting each coat dry before applying the next then carefully remove the doily from the glass and insert a battery operated wax candle a table runner was created by tearing not cutting a long strip of linen that came from an old curtain panel more natural elements such as blooming branches berries pine cones apples acorns and cinnamon sticks were layered on to cozy the table up i usually use this large glass cloche for decorative purposes but apparently flies love chocolate brownies as much as i do they were being quite the pests during this shoot so i finally got to use my cloche for a practical purpose more pillows pillows pillows and crisp white tableware to contrast nicely against the richer browns greens and reds i keep recommending battery operated candles because a couple of weeks or so ago i caught the living room on fire with a regular candle it was a silly mistake in which i draped some fabric over the top of it forgetting that it was even there we were able to put the fire out with a garden hose before the six or seven sigh firetrucks arrived the birds and bunnies just happened to be flying and hopping around the living room when the fire broke out but none were harmed thank goodness i have a couple of pieces of furniture pieces to refinish or replace including one of my favorite reading chairs that i got at goodwill a couple of years ago some drywall and beadboard to repair and a few scorch marks on the floor to live with but it could have been much worse and for that i am extremely thankful i still use regular candles but for candles anywhere near fabric like the candle holders i made above i highly recommend battery operated just to be on the safe side we ll talk again soon dear friends until then cozy up and brace yourself like the last little tree leaf as we say goodbye to delicious autumn and welcome winter i hope you all are doing well 100 comments older posts subscribe to comments atom this and that home about faq have a question blogs of note email categories dining room dollhouse exterior food hallway inspiration kitchen living room personal poetry and quotes small projects studio thrifty finds search memory lane 2016 2 april 2016 2 2013 1 january 2013 1 2012 4 november 2012 2 july 2012 2 2011 30 november 2011 2 october 2011 2 september 2011 2 july 2011 3 june 2011 1 may 2011 7 april 2011 4 february 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