Happy February... happy apparently 6 more weeks of winter... happy Justin Timberlake rocked the halftime show... and happy I-think-I've-already-posted-on-here-more-in-the-last-month-than-I did-all-last-year. Go me, with that resolution!
The other day I posted photos of my craft room. You can see that here if you missed it. And thank you so very much for your kind comments & positive feedback! ♥
Continuing on with more of the tour... these are photos from the first floor. I'll do another post soon with the rest of the 2nd floor once I get everything edited. My favorite app for editing photos lately is A Color Story. It's great for lightening up photos, especially for rooms that do not get a lot of good natural light. And it's easy to edit right from my phone since goodness knows almost all my photos are taken with my phone these days, while my Canon just sits there collecting dust. Pitiful. But when phone cameras are convenient AND take good quality photos... I mean... why bother??
So this old TV armoire was the inpsiration & starting point for the whole room. I really wanted it to be a funky, bright statement piece. And at the time, I found myself "pinning" a lot of painted furniture on Pinterest, so I decided to tackle it based on some suggestions of paint that promised minimal prep work because sometimes I'm lazy...

Velvet Finishes paint is made specifically for furniture & requires no sanding or primer... just a clean surface of course. The color I chose is HANDSOME. Literally. And figuratively in my opinion. LOL
I really love how it turned out.
And while I was at it, I painted old tables that used to be silver or black with a can of gold spray paint. All of this took place in the garage & let's just say that I shouldn't have left the can of spray paint laying on the garage floor. Because while the newly painted beautiful blue armoire was still sitting there, I decided it would be a great idea to back up my car over the can of gold spray paint, causing it to explode & violently spray gold paint everywhere, including onto the blue armoire AND my tire.
I mean... I'm totally into bling & sparkle as you probably know... but a gold tire was a little much.
So... I suggest you don't do that & you'll likely not need 3 coats of paint on your furniture. Ahem...

Oh & I spray painted the knobs gold for the armoire too. What can I say except it's easy to get on a roll once you get a can of paint in your hands...



As I've said before, Bryn has a great eye for design & is very creative & artistic. She made a couple of the pieces of art hanging in this room based off inspiration found on Pinterest. White canvas, black paint... again... it's very cheap to make, but would cost a lot more money to buy it...


Design on a dime was my motto, so repurposing what I had &/or altering things I purchased at Ikea was how it all went down. It was really a mix of mostly old stuff with some new stuff thrown in. I also decided to just leave the paint on the walls white for now so I could play with more pops of color & pattern in all the rooms.
Again... very different from my other house which had more color on the walls there.
This Ikea light makes me really happy. So cheap, but such a cool piece that also catches your eye. And I love the shadow it casts on the ceiling at night...



I'm an 80's girl & I will always love my albums. Gotta love that record player I received as a gift a few years ago so I can still play the albums too...

There are quite a few references to Bloom in the accessories in several rooms of my home. Kinda love that place... just sayin'.
That print of the girl dancing was a gift & has my name in her body. Are you kidding me right now??? So cool...


More Ikea purchases with the counter stools & chairs. Cheap white chairs that had an aluminum base to them that I again used gold spray paint to change the look. Honestly I think they look less "cheap" with the gold, but they also match the room better that way too.
The kitchen table was not cheap, so I figured I could get away with mixing that almost farmhouse look of the table with modern chairs. I found it a few years ago at West Elm. Love love that store. Wish they were local.



As for the corks... I'd like to say I didn't partake in drinking all those bottles of wine, but I'd be lying. So try to focus on the cute little Bloom ornament instead...



Recently I organized the pantry after getting inspiration from The Home Edit on Instagram. Again with my design on a dime motto... most of what I used as storage was found at the dollar store. And I had almost paid like 5X that amount at Target, but decided to look there first instead...

These chalk board markers will write directly onto glass or plastic surfaces & then easily erase with a paper towel too...



I almost painted all the cabinet door pullls gold too, but my laziness kicked in & said... You know... you can mix metals & stick with some silver stuff instead of all gold, DUH.
Plus I really don't like anything to be too matchy-matchy anyway, so laziness won out.
But I do have a goal to get a backsplash & also get rid of the ugly sink & faucet. I'd like to switch it out for a big white porcelain sink with something gold & yummy like this faucet. Be still my heart...

This fish is totally my buddy & I'm not ashamed to admit it.
We get each other. In other words, he doesn't bark & wake me up in the middle of the night so he's totally low maintenance.
He gets that I'm not low maintenance & sometimes go out of town for a week leaving him without food. And that I'm not great about cleaning the poor thing's bowl regularly.
I mean... he's like Gloria Gaynor & will survive my occasional bad parenting. Honestly though, I probably care way too much about that fish, but it's really the only living thing in my house other than maybe an aloe plant, when Bryn's not with me.
You're my boy, Blue...

Moving on... this is just the main floor half-bath right off the entryway. And surprise, surprise... there's more gold spray paint!
Are you getting sick of it yet?
At least it's not gold polka dots.
We'll get to more of that on the next post... much to Bryn's dismay...


This "shelf" was a bright turquoise blue color when I purchased it, but I decided to paint it gold & use it to store extra toilet paper... a decision that Bryn suggested when we found it at Hobby Lobby.
Love that she can see beyond the obvious in that brain of hers.
As for the cat photo, I think I probably found the inspiration from Pinterest. Decided to make my own version of whatever I had seen... found a photo of a cat with it's tongue sticking out somewhere online, then added the text Dat Ass & printed it. What can I say except it makes me laugh & I thought it was good bathroom humor...



OK then...
More to come soon with the rest of the tour.
Happy Monday & I hope you have a great week ahead!!