london {shades} calling...

as luck would have it, my amazingly talented mother-in-law Stephanie totally gets how to make a london shade.  and as luck would have it, my weird husband picked out grey raw silk fabric for drapes back in his bachelor days and never used it.  wham bam, our dining room is the new recipient of semi-free london shades made out of awesome grey silk.


dining room before (oh the horrors):

dining room after:

spring it on - before & afters!

there is something magical about having one extra hour of sunlight.  the hibernation ends, and once again I feel productive and energized.  so, in honor of daylight savings time, here is the almost-there reveal for the living room and the peacock-blue office!

the living room before (pink with brown accent wall, ugly brick around fireplace, no window coverings, and a horrific amount of molding above the mantle, etc.):

the living room after (revere pewter walls, tango tangerine couch!, sealskin fireplace, and plantation shutters.  couch: room&board, grey leather chairs and rug: west elm, lack square coffee tables: IKEA, mercury glass gourd lamps: HomeGoods)

most of the art we put up is actually decorative paper from Paper Source (previous post).  the photos above the fireplace are of the camels I rode through Petra, Jordan, a few years ago. love those camels.

the office before (pink and mauve, with maroon accents and wallpaper, yuck!):

inspiration office:

the office after (peacock blue/green, with black, white and orange accents, yay!):

still looking for my zebra inspiration rug... and I'm hoping to fill that far wall with all our black & white travel photos.  orange magazine holders are from IKEA and only $3.99 for a pack of two! (Domino, I held on to you...)

so that's what i've been doing for the past three months!  here's my favorite little flower, ranunculus, to welcome in the spring!