Styling
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Cozy Throw Blankets, Velvet Pillows, & More
September Updates Hello and Happy (almost) October! With trips to New York and New Orleans, this month has flown by. Is it possible that fall goes even faster than summer?!? Updates for the month of September include a fall screened in porch, a long weekend in New Orleans, a round up of cozy throw blankets, velvet pillow options, a couple of fall wardrobe items that are currently en route, minimalist makeup, and a book club.
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Kitchen Styling: Spring Shelves 3 Ways
Kitchen Stying: Spring Shelves 3 Ways Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether or not spring is actually here. One day it is snowing and the next it is 60+ degrees. One way that I have attempted ensure that spring feeling lasts (even in an onslaught of snow) is through fresh (indoor) flowers and spring shelves. Below are some Kitchen Styling Ideas to bring spring inside when it is still cold and/or raining and/or snowing outside. All of the shelf styling was done in collaboration with The Counting House. I have so much fun working together to brainstorm the shelf ideas while at the store and then bringing the beautiful…
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Mackinaw Road: Five February Favorites
It’s true what everyone says. February is definitely the longest shortest month of the year. Hello and Welcome, March! Nonetheless, some fun things did happen in February. **DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! February Favorites: Living Room Decor I gave our living room a little February update. It was fun to make a reel over on my Instagram as the process unfolded. Here is the static version. I used mostly items I already had, but added a couple new vases, some faux stems, a few real flowers, and a pedestal. Crew was very curious and would…
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Colonial Home: Kid Bedrooms
While our primary bedroom and bathroom remain untouched despite the need for updates, our kids’ bedrooms keep getting tweaked. I’ll go into more detail below but thought it might be fun to share some kid bedroom updates that have happened over the past year or so. I’ve also included progress photos as we take a little trip down memory lane. In general, our colonial home changes are a slow burn with adjustments made here and there. Let’s begin our tour.
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A Plaid Christmas: The Dining Room
Hi again! Back-to-back blog posts can only mean one thing… the kids will soon be on winter break. As you can read a bit about in this post (and this one), the picture frame molding made it up just in time for Thanksgiving. We also hosted a small work gathering last weekend, so that was also on my mind as we hurried to finish the project. What is more classic in a colonial home that picture frame molding? A Plaid Christmas of course. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive a small commission. Thank you! A Plaid Christmas: The Dining…
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Christmas Living Room Styling
Christmas Living Room Styling is one of the most fun (and sometimes frustrating) activities of the year for me! This year, I am attempting to slowly add in a green and black color scheme. With all of the other colors mixed in too. Of course. Because there is no avoiding red (and/or plaid) at our house-haha! DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Last week, I finally had a chance to sort through all of the decorations that were thrown up in the pure excitement of the season! We almost always go to the Christmas Tree Farm…
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Mackinaw Road: November Updates
As happens this time of year, the days are flying by and we are already into December- yikes and yay! Here is what November looked like for us. It included putting up Picture Frame Molding, Thanksgiving and The Day After (with the smartest pie I’ve come across), Christmas Shopping, and Christmas Decorating. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Picture Frame Molding- Another Tidbit One of the biggest activities this month was putting up the picture frame molding in the dining room and painting it white. I love how it turned out and had so much fun…
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Holiday Dining Room on Mackinaw Road
Hi! I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving Weekend!! This post is probably 10 days too late, but here it is just the same. I do think that it is versatile enough that some of the ideas could easily be incorporated into a Christmas table, too. Here is our Holiday Dining Room. DISCLOSURE: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! Last year for Thanksgiving, our table was on a much more traditional level. (You can check it out here.) This year, however, I was scrambling. Gretchen and I added picture frame molding to the room and I…
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Mackinaw Road: September Updates
Hi and Happy October! Here are some September Updates from last month. Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you! September Update #1: Cozy Fall Living Room We cannot get enough of the cozy fall living room. If you missed it, you can read more here. Some of the sources are linked below. You can click on the picture to be taken to the site. September Update #2: Lake Winnipesaukee We finally got another trip in! Lake Winnipesaukee was beautiful. Stay tuned for a post devoted to the trip as well as our brief stop at Niagara Falls.…
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Cozy Fall Living Room
It is officially fall! While I’m sad to see summer come to an end, it has been fun to slowly change and rearrange the living room space to create our Fall Living Room 2021. **Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you click and purchase, I may receive some compensation. Thank you!
