Thursday, February 3, 2022

Finding Inspiration in the Little Things

 Sometimes you can find inspiration in the weirdest places.  I found mine for my bedroom at Lowe's in a plant.


Meet George


I found George in the clearance section and he was beautiful.  Atleast to me.  He also had a companion that I bought too.  Both were $1.00!  I happily brought him home and gave him some love!  Much needed love.

This got me to thinking of a flower pot in my basement.  My husband bought me the pot when we were first married.  I used to have a fig tree in it until our puppy at the time decided to eat it.  So the pot sat empty.  When we moved, the pot went to the basement and there it has sat.  

Until now....


I went down and found the pot.  I dumped out the old fig tree remnants and cleaned it up.  Nothing like a good old bubble bath to make you feel refreshed.  This would be the perfect new home for George!  Now where to put George?  Thus the inspiration was found.  George and his pot would go in the room and be my inspiration piece.

My sister found this and I instantly fell in love!


This was the look that I was looking for!  I had thought for a minute of painting the furniture white that was going in the room, but once I saw this I decided against it.  The floor in the room is expresso colored.  The headboard, armoire and dresser are also expresso colored.  So they are going to stay expresso.

Now for the bedding.  Again, my sister came to the rescue and found a beautiful bedding set from Ralph Lauren.


It's a duvet cover and 2 shams which is exactly what I wanted.  I kinda gasped at the price tag of it, but found it brand new in the package on Ebay for half the price.  Winner!



It matches the wall color that I chose from the flower pot perfectly.  The wall color is the middle one on the swatch called Tranquil Vibe.  Perfect name for a bedroom.

Now to get to work!  First is to clean out the room and paint.

Wish me luck!



Wednesday, February 2, 2022

February

 Happy February!

Since February is the month for love, let's start with the master bedroom.  Syrina originally was going to take this room, but changed her mind and chose the new room we made out of the attic space.  Did not hurt my feelings at all since this room has slanted ceilings and not the most comfortable to move around in.

So....like every room I work on in this house it needs to be cleaned out first.  She never finished moving her stuff out of it, so that is the first thing.  There is alot of stuff to be moved still. 



Alot of stuff....


....a lot....


Then it needs to be painted.  Three walls are a silver gray and one wall is teal.  Seems dad has this desire to paint one wall of every room a different color.  I think first I need to find something to inspire me.  I know what I want the room to look like.  I need to get the ducks in order!

So it looks like I am off to clean!

Ciao!