Saying goodbye to our first home

Hey there! It has been a whirlwind these last few weeks. We have been cleaning out, moving furniture, and prepping our house to sell. All the hard work and stress has paid off for us. Just after 16 days on the market our house sold!! We couldn't be more excited that our first little home we built can now be appreciated by another sweet couple. 

Now that we prepare to build our dream home, we are looking forward to the next chapter in our lives. We cannot wait to begin building.

In the last month we have also bought a lot in a great neighborhood to raise our future family, designed an amazing open floor plan, and found an (inspiration house) exterior that we want our house to look like.

I'm mostly looking forward to choosing all the materials and putting those special touches throughout the house. Of course, my main concern will be design and decorating decisions. 

I pray I don't get too stressed out during the building process, the planning part was fairly easy, for the most part. Construction should begin in September and take 6-8 months to finish. I'll keep you posted on the process. 

Now the FUN part begins. . . packing and moving everything out that we've accumulated over five years. 

Thank you for stopping by.

I hope you have a great week!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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New Dresser & A Bedroom Update

Last week I decided it was time to change several pieces of furniture in our master bedroom. After almost five years of the furniture being in the same position, I thought it needed a few tweaks here and there just to freshen it up a bit. It all started with this beautiful dresser we found several months ago. After painting it and adding stain to the top it's now one of the main centerpieces in our bedroom. I'm loving the new look!

It has such beautiful details.

Isn't it funny how you can bring one new piece of furniture in a room and then the whole space needs to be rearranged. This happens almost every time to me. My motto in my home is "If you bring one new thing in, then something else needs to go out." It's hard for me not to put everything out at once when I'm accessorizing my home. I've learned to store away some accessories and then rotate items in when I want to use them. Sometimes "less is more."

I've added personal touches throughout the bedroom. It's all the small, personal details that make a room feel special. I added a Hungarian cucumber jar a friend bought for me, a silver vase (that was given to us as a wedding gift) filled with dried hydrangeas, vintage brass keys on a ring, a white bird, faded old books, a mixture of lamps, an antique gold mirror that I found last year, painted-refurbished furniture mixed with our natural wood furniture, an antique screen, sheet music- metal side table, some of my favorite photos, a needlepoint pillow, a distressed mirror, old pottery, silk drapes, and woven baskets for extra storage. 

Our antique radio stand- turned TV console fits perfect on a small wall in the master bedroom.

Thanks for stopping by.

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Patio Coffee Table Makeover

About a month ago I decided to revamp our back patio coffee table. I found the table several years ago at a garage sale for $3. It originally had a fiberboard top that pretty much fell apart due to water damage and sitting outdoors. So I decided to paint and distress the base gray and white. Then to bring a new look to the top I measured, cut, and nailed 4 pieces of treated lumber. Then I simply just stained the rustic, wooden top Dark Walnut.

The coffee table is a great addition to our back patio. It only set me back $15 for this makeover.

I just love the details of my “new” coffee table.

BEFORE

The patio is one of my favorite places around the house just to sit, read, and relax.

Thanks for stopping by!

I'm linking my table to Home Stories A to Z, Make it Yourself Monday at An Original Belle, Sumo's Sweet Stuff, The Girl Creative, Craft and Tell at Cherished Bliss, Tuesday to Do Party at The Blackberry Vine, Share It Link Party, The Inspiration Board,  Tip Junkie, DIY Showoff, My Girlish Whims, How to Nest for Less, Primitive & Proper, RRR Transformation Party, Miss Mustard Seed, SNS at Funky Junk Interiors, and Primp.

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Buffet Makeover

We've had this secondhand buffet sitting in our living room for about two years now. I knew I wanted to eventually paint it and bring a more updated and fresh color in the room that we spend most of our time in. So, for the last two days I have been prepping and painting this buffet along with freshening up two side tables from our living room as well... and revamping a patio coffee table in the mix {a post to come later}.  

The buffet really brightens up our living room and I'm so pleased how it turned out. The beautiful details just seem to pop since I painted it.

I did have some help from my husband, tearing off the top layer of water damaged laminate, scraping and sanding it down to the natural wood top. This was the most tedious task in the whole makeover, but so worth it.

While all of that was going on, I decided to paint the two side tables and complete our patio coffee table. It's amazing what paint can do to a piece of furniture! I'm so excited because I feel like I have three NEW pieces of furniture in our living room. 

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a great weekend!

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Antique Door- Turned Mirror

I went on a buying trip to New Orleans several months ago for our store. This salvaged antique door was one of the many great finds that came home with me. I knew I wanted an old chippy door in my house somewhere. When I saw this one I knew it was perfect just the way it was. I took the broken glass panels out and had it replaced with mirrors then I added an antique crystal door knob for the finishing touch.

I absolutely love the way it turned out! It fits perfect on the small wall in my living room and it brings a little rustic charm to the space.

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I'm linking up with Kojo Designs for Friday Fun Finds, Truly Lovely for Fancy this Friday, Dragon Fly Design for Inspiring Creativity, Shabby Nest for Frugal Friday, Whipperberry for Friday Flair and Not JUST a Housewife DIY Contest.

  

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Summer Yard & Patio Makeover

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Summer is almost over, but I couldn't resist posting some pictures of our progress that we've been working on around our house. Where did the summer go?
I guess I've been super busy!

    This summer my husband and I decided that our backyard needed some major TLC, for sure! {we have not done anything to it since we moved in 4 years ago... gasp!} So, it all started when we purchased a concrete garden bench and a metal arbor and the ideas just flowed from there of what we could do to the yard. We started out planting flowerbeds on 2 corners of the backyard and we also added several new plants to the front yard too.

Here are a few pictures:

First, Jacob started tearing up the grass, he cleared the area of weeds and overgrown grass to prepare it for planting the flowers and shrubs.

Next we bought 2 truck loads of flowers, shrubs, and top soil then started planting them. Let me tell you, planting was not an easy process, the ground was sooo hard but we pressed through. I could not have done any of this without the help of Jacob.

Then we headed to Lowe's and purchased mulch. . .

We still want to add a stacked river rock border around the flowerbed edges, when we find the time for that project!

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We decided to do a makeover on the back patio!
Here are a few pictures of how we rearranged the furniture and spruced it up a bit. 

Here's our new porch swing we put together, painted, and hung. This is my new favorite spot around the house!

My front porch:

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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