The big girls room is probably my favorite in our home, kids rooms are always the most fun for me to decorate and it also was the shape + charm of this room that sold me on our house when we walked into it three years ago!  It reminds of a dollhouse, with really high sloped ceilings + stairs to walk into it, it also is by far the biggest bedroom of our home since it is the room over the garage.  The perfect space for two sisters to share!

First, a little background on this room.  It was the only space in our house without hardwoods when we bought it, so we had them put in to match the other floors in the house which were being refinished at the same time. There were built-in shelves along the side of the wall of the room, which I LOVED for the charm they brought, but we ended up pulling them out + replacing them because of the quality.  We went with the same drawers we got in our kitchen, white shaker, and had someone install them to fit along the wall.  This is one of my favorite parts of their room, the drawer space is theeeee best, especially with two little girls!  I also love their little school desks, we found them at a garage sale years ago + refinished them, I now need to find one for Remerie’s room because they love to sit in these and color/do school work so much.

For December, I added some festive sheets to their beds, fun reindeer pillows, lights, + a couple little houses along with a little pink tree that no longer has any ornaments left on it because Remie Rue has pulled them down 468 times. 😉  Also we love their big tree we got a few years back and the cutest festive sign from Opal + Olive, our go-to for signs in the girls rooms throughout the year.  I have linked everything still available at the bottom of this post and plan to share some more photos of their built-in shelving and other spaces in their room in the new year, I am still on the hunt for a second rug to put under their beds + the perfect curtains!

Comforters — Pillows — Sheets (Similar) — Stools — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Sign — Seagrass Deer — Book Ledges — Rose Gold Christmas Tree (Similar)

Books: The Great Spruce — The Reindeer Express — The Night Before Christmas

We finally have entirely finished one room in our new home, sweet Remie Rue’s nursery!!!  This space was so much fun to decorate and probably the easiest of all the rooms for me to put together, kids rooms are just the best and always end up being my favorite of all.

My inspiration for the entire room came from this wallpaper from Shop B Darling.  With it being our third baby girl, I decided to completely embrace all things feminine and sweet — and the wallpaper just did that for me!  I had been wanting to try wallpaper forever and loved it just as much as I thought I would, it was super easy to put up and transformed the entire room in one afternoon.  I am already thinking of the next place I want to put some up!

Since the print was pretty large & busy, I wanted to keep everything else light and basic.  We bought another of the Ikea dressers that we already have two of (they are seriously the best ever and so affordable!), and got a new crib that will convert to a twin bed when she is older.  I also had been hoarding the prettiest swing forever and just could not find a place to put it, and loved how it looked in this space!  The very last piece was added was her name sign, while most everything was finished before she arrived, I left a space for it since I knew I wanted to have one there but we didn’t know what her name would be.  When it came in the mail last week it was so perfect and just the final touch to make the sweetest nursery for our Remie girl, I hope she grows to love her little space as much as we do!

Sign & Garland C/O The Modern Mill — Changing Pad Cover — Sheets — Dresser — Wallpaper C/O Shop B Darling — Baskets C/O Lorena Canals — Rug C/O Lorena Canals  — Stool — Swing — Bookshelves — Sign C/O Opal Plus Olive — Glider — Crib

*Bow holder & basket on the dresser are from TJMaxx.

A long overdue house update, it’s now been about four months since we closed on our second home at the end of April and a little less than three since we officially moved in!  I completely meant to share more about the process, but it turns out life with two kids, one on the way & a house renovation is crazy — and also, even though we have gotten SO MUCH done, we don’t really have a room that is 100% done yet, and I want to wait to share until then.  Hopefully room by room, as we finish them!

The hardest part of this entire experience was the time between closing on our old house and our new house being “livable” enough to move in.  During those weeks the four of us weren’t living together (which was really hard mentally, for the girls & us), and it felt like every time we turned around there was another setback that we didn’t plan for time or budget wise.  It was HARD, and didn’t help that I was pregnant and desperately trying to keep the girls on a schedule, since they were both still in school.  But we managed, got it done and were able to move in — the house still needed so much work but being together, under the same roof again, was so much of a relief that it made things like not having a sink or oven seem like less of a big deal.  I will never forget those first few days we finally moved in, having the girls sleeping in their own beds again and pulling out our own dish towels and bowls was soooooo exciting!

Since moving in, we have just done little by little, I have found it so important to count small victories each day and to just take one project at a time.  I am so Type-A and hate unfinished anything (or a mess!), so I really have to remind myself all the time that it will all be worth it.  Which it is already.  My husband has done a lot of the work himself and it really is so amazing to see our vision come to life, especially when it’s him creating it.  There is something to be said about a house that you make your own, making decisions on paint colors or knobs can be really overwhelming but I love that everything is personal to us.

A few photos of parts of our downstairs, including a little peak into the kitchen, by far our biggest project so far!  When we moved in, the kitchen was dark and really small, we knocked down a wall and part of another to make it bigger, as well as gutted pretty much everything in it — I cannot believe what a change it is!  We are waiting on some wood floating shelves for the main tile wall and then it will be complete, just in time for all the fall decor!

Hoping to share some more in the weeks/months to come, including some finished rooms!  Happy week ahead! XO

 

We started the girls bathroom makeover back in June, and it is still not entirely complete, so let me preface this post by saying that this is indeed one of the longest house projects of all time.  We are forever battling the time issue (like there is never enough of it), with two full-time jobs and two kids, we are BUSY.  But I always try to remind myself that there will come a day when our babies aren’t babies anymore, and they won’t want to hang out with us, and then we will be sad and have all the time in the world.  So for now, we will embrace and love the crazy (and the constant to-do’s that come with it!).

When we moved into our house four years ago, the hallway bathroom was a hot mess, a pretty horrible 80’s style avocado green and a vanity that was not in the best condition.  But we had so much we wanted to do in other places of the house, so we pretty much put that project on the back-burner since it was still in working condition.  Fast forward to the end of last spring, we gutted it and started from scratch!   We are not planning on this being our forever home (mostly because we want to be in a more rural area of VB), so we did the updates pretty classic and mainstream to make it more marketable.  We went with a grey & white ceramic tile for the floors, a white subway tile for the wall by the bath tub, and painted the walls white with white trim.  I have this thing with white.  I really wanted pops of gold (although I’m not sure how smart that is for selling, I just couldn’t resist), and we found some pretty affordable gold fixtures on Amazon.  Everything we have purchased up to this point is linked at the bottom of the post, I love how it just feels so clean and bright, with pops of color added in by the accessories!

My husband is currently building the vanity (we went with grey!) and I can’t wait to share that, along with the lights and mirror we pick to go with it, after it is all complete.  For now, I am just happy that we have a place to give the girls a bath in again, I still cannot believe we made it through an entire summer with a two & five year old, and no working bath tub in the house!
Lastly, I wanted to share the sweetest line of spa products for little girls.  Poshy Girls recently sent us over the cutest spa kit, and the girls love it, mini facials sand pink glitter soap!!!!  The mini facial tub is pictured above in the last photo from the girls bathroom, it’s a favorite at our house.  You guys must check them out, such fun products for little girls!  Happy week ahead, friends!

 Floor Tile — Wall Tile — Gold Fixtures — Stool — Shower Curtain — Bath Tub 
(We got our tub in-store as the display model for $75, it was incredibly dirty and full of glass, so we bought it as is and cleaned it up!)

We have been really busy with house projects over here since the new year started, and I am super excited to share some of them in the next few weeks!!  One of our resolutions for 2017 was to really focus on some of the one million updates we have had on our to-do list forever, although I am certain that we will always keep a list, because that’s just the way we roll.  I seem to always find something new I want to do to refresh our home and change things up a bit, a quality of mine that my sweet husband may just want to change about me.

Waverly’s room was first on my list, I wanted to paint and just brighten it up with some fun little things I have been collecting over the past few months.  Once Avalon is ready to move out of her crib and into a big girl bed, we will most likely make this the girls shared room.  Our house is big enough that we don’t really need for them to, but Waverly loves the idea of it and asks daily when they get to, and I think Avalon may love it even more.  My husband built Waverly’s bed (you can see the post here), so he will either build a matching one for Avalon or bunk beds, depending on what we can fit.  Waverly wants bunk beds with her little sister SO MUCH, so if we can make that happen, we probably will.  The thought of them sharing is already just the sweetest thing ever to me, though I am sure there will be just as many sister fights as sister snuggles … 😉

We painted the walls white and replaced all the baseboard, which is actually a project we are working on through out the house.  Our house is old (one of things that I actually love about it), so it’s amazing what a huge change that has made!  Her room already had some pops of pink and gold, which I kept, but then also added some yellows, which were inspired by this beautiful painting that I teamed up with Minted on.  Love it so much!!!  Other details are linked on the bottom of this post, including this rug from Land of the Nod, it is even better in person!


Can’t wait to add to it in the months to come, and to give it some fun touches each holiday!!  See all sources below, happy Wednesday! XO

Minted Painting – Duvet Cover –  Rug – Curtains – Swan Head – Bookcase