I’ve seen a ton of super cute cheap coffee table DIYs lately, but sometimes you just want to buy something already made, amiright? While finding cheap coffee tables takes a bit of digging, I was really surprised at how many coffee tables I could find! For me, cheap coffee tables need to meet the following criteria:…
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Our Fall Home Tour
Fall decorating snuck up on me more than usual this year! It seemed a bit odd to be buying and putting out seasonal decor when we still have a bunch of stuff in boxes that we need to unpack. But I’m a big believer in enjoying and celebrating life as it comes, so I went…
Putting the Living Room Together
My favorite part of any remodeling and/or moving process? When they big things are done and I get down to the nitty gritty details—decorating! As you guys have heard, the living room was the most hotly debated room in our home. I was SO relieved to finally have everything settled and get to start the…
A Tale of Two Couches
Like I mentioned in my last post, our living room has been a bit of a debating ground. First we couldn’t decide on keeping or removing the paneling, then we couldn’t decide on keeping or leaving the trim, and most recently there was the Great Couch Debate of 2015.
Our Living Room Before & After
Our living room has been a point of major contention in our lives. It seems everyone has had some opinion to enter the debate and voice their opinion on what we should do with our space. Luckily, we came to a great compromise between ourselves and our family and friends! Phew.
How to Stage a House to Sell
Thank you guys so, so much for your kind words on our big moving announcement. We are so excited (and very tired!). Like I mentioned, our house had multiple offers the first day we listed! I know that was a combination of things—great market and agent, excellent interior design, etc, but Scott and I also attribute…
Distressing the Mantle and Rearranging Shelves
Hi friends! I am so happy to be back! Scott and I both got hit hard with a nasty case of food poisoning that left us both out and down for a solid five days. Yikes. Not cute. So, clearly we are a bit behind on our to-do list for the house, but I did…
Our New Living Room
The living room is easily the most lived-in room in our house. I’d say second place is the kitchen, and since the kitchen is completely open to the living room as well, really the living room is by far the most visible space at Gray Gables (I keep forgetting I named our house!). Recently I…
A Quick Little Trick for Hiding Electric Wires
While having an open floor plan has many advantages, there are a few disadvantages too. Like, only have four walls instead of the 12 others might have. And there’s only one logical placement for your television (if you are like me and refuse to put it above your fireplace ;)), BUT that one spot happens…
The Great Icemagedon of 2013 Didn’t Kill Our Christmas Joy
So once upon a time in Dallas, fall was here. The roads and yards were covered in leaves freshly fallen from trees and the orange and yellow made a satisfying crunch beneath your feet.
Before and After Photos
Happy Wednesday!!! Did you all have a fun week so far? We sure did! We are still recovering from the weekend when we made about 9 trips to Home Depot (seriously.) but got a TON of work done- our bathroom is functioning and almost DONE!! I can’t wait to show you all the photos! I also…
CNN Living – the Story Behind the Picture
Morning friends! I happened to notice quite a bit of heavy traffic on my site last night and thought it was from my Cronut recipe– but it was from a feature on CNN. 🙂 Surprise! You see, CNN had put out a call about a story they were going to be writing about fireplaces. So,…
