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Sunday, May 11, 2014

The Living Room

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a marvelous Mother's Day weekend.
This week I'll take you into our living room, so welcome one and all its rather cozy so everyone squeeze in.
Gary and I were able to use some of our furniture from our other home, not to sure if it really works or not but, for now we are living with what we have.
We were thinking maybe a small sectional but Gary loves his recliner. I have seen sofa's with a recliner built in, they are pretty cool.

I changed out the slip over on my sofa from the blue jean denim fabric to the off white duck cotton. It's more summery and I do love the lighter fabric and airy feel of the room with this slip cover.

The pink open tulips on the counter were a Mother's day gift. How I adore tulips.

The Kincaid hangs nicely on this wall beside the sofa.

The beautiful red tulips were a gift from my Mom and Dad..I love the color, I only wish we could have tulips year round, I will have to enjoy every minute of these charming delicate flowers.
Oh and just look who's in the picture again...yep i'ts Shiloh ( he follows me everywhere I go )

Here's a before photo looking towards the front door.

And now....

Larger view of the living room, It's very simple but comfortable for Gary and me.

Before photo of the fireplace wall, the previous homeowners had their TV in the corner. Ours did not fit and Gary wanted to add surround sound.

We removed the stone veneer fireplace and replaced it with the same brick we used in the kitchen and dinning room. Knocked out the wall and corner cabinet and extended the wall into the hallway, also creating a archway.

The new ceiling fan being installed, this is the coolest fan it so quite and cools down the room quickly. It reminds Gary of airplane propeller.

So this is how the TV was mounted above the fireplace, we had all the electrical installed before the brick was laid.

Installation of the gas fireplace, we had to have a gas line run.

Aw a nice and toasty warm fireplace. Very economical. The fireplace is an Enviro.

And Gary helping with the installation of the TV. As you can see in this photo the floors had just been laid. By the way Gary installed the wrong TV bracket, silly guy! but he did not want to redo it, it's holding just fine. We get a chuckle out of it.

We have TV, Gary is in his glory. Do you see who I see again?

Looking in from the front door. Hi Shiloh, I see you baby....

We are loving all the brick, it just seems so right for us.

The original artwork of the cottage homes, was painted by no other than Dwayne Hickman (Dobie Gillis).
We met him and his wife about six years ago at an art gallery. What a nice man.

Really! Shiloh again....

So I have to tell you a little story about the curtains. I will make it short, anyway Gary and went to JC Penny to purchase our roman shades because after looking at so many fabrics I fell in love with the fabric red floral toile. We only ordered the shades for the front windows.
While out and about one day we stopped at one of my favorite fabric and rug stores and low and behold guess what we found? The same fabric as the roman shades!!!!!
I was floored to say the least so I bought enough to make the curtains for the french doors. I lined the curtains due to the strong sun that hits mid day.

The picture composed by Dwayne Hickman is called 'The Cottage' This is Clint Eastwood's property near Carmel.

Before photo of slider door, now we have a french door

I am surrounded by brick and I am one happy girl.

Another before, the door you see leads to the laundry room and power room. I will be sharing this room with you next week.

View into the dinning room

The red chest is a buffet.

I love all the detail it has.

Look who thinks hes a kitty cat! Shiloh has taken to sitting on the ottoman and cat walking on the windowsill to look outside.

Or maybe he just wants to stop and smell the flowers.

Have a sweet week and may each day bring a smile.

Joining in with the following link parties:

Susan-Between Naps on the Porch Metamorphosis Monday

Mary-Boogieboard Cottage Masterpiece Monday

Kathryn-The Dedicated House Make it Pretty Monday

Brenda-Cozy Little House Tweak it Tuesday

Marty-A Stroll Thru Life Inspire me Tuesday

Kim-Savvy Southern Style WOW Us Wednesdays

Sherry-The Charm of Home Home Sweet Home Party Friday

Courtney-French Country Cottage Feathered Nest Friday

Monday, May 5, 2014

Dinning Room with Bling

Happy Monday! I want to say "Thank you" to each and everyone of you who so kindly left us a note on our kitchen post. You all are so sweet to us!
This Monday we want to share with you our dinning room.Below are the before pictures, you will see that we removed two of the can-lights the ones in front and had a new electrical junction box installed in the ceiling so we could hang a chandelier.

Custom trim was added around the windows and doorway that leads to the kitchen, also the rug was removed and new flooring was installed.

In our last post I shared with you my love for brick and that we had used it in several rooms in our home. Another place besides the kitchen was in the dinning room. We had a brick mason install a brick wall as our focal wall.. the brick we used was 1/2 brick paver's.

In this picture the cement was still wet so the brick looked darker. I couldn't believe how many choices there are for brick, it was crazy with choices.

And Wall-La its done! We decided not to use the shutters that were in the dinning room after the windows were trimmed out the shutters no longer fit. I love roman shades so decided to have fabric shades made.

The door to the left leads to the kitchen. I was able to use my mirror and buffet table I had bought for our previous home. We purchased a new dinning table and chandelier.

The roman shades are made of a floral linen toile. The grandfather clock fit well in this little corner.

Here's the door way into the kitchen. The brick wall in the kitchen flows into the brick wall into the dinning room. Oil painting (Private Reserve) by Stiltz

A view of the dinning room from the kitchen.

Buffet table and dinning table. They are from different designers, but work well together.

The Yellow Cottage Picture is by Dwane Hickman (yep\Dobie Gillis)

The brick wall gives the house a kind of lofty cottage look I think...

The dinning room table was handcrafted by Simply Amish from the Aspen Trestle collection made in the USA.. I love the Arts & Crafts feel of the table and chairs. The chairs are so easy and comfortable to sit in.

A closer look at the roman shades.

The chandelier we choose was designed by Schonbek and is from the Madison Collection with handcut crystal made in the USA. I really love the mix of metal and crystal, its like wearing blue jeans with your diamond earrings. It gives our dinning room a touch of bling the ( diamond earrings) and the brick wall (blue jeans). I am a jean girl who always has her diamond earrings on...Yep that's me! bluejeans and diamonds. So why not have my dinning room comfortable and blingy LOL

From our living room the dinning room is visible in our open floor plan.

A little peek of the living room, next week I will show you all of the living room.

Since our last post of the kitchen we found these cute little bar stools. They tuck ever so nicely under the counter. Bar stools are from Pier One.

During all my picture taking Shiloh hardly budged from his bed, he was a tired baby after his bath. Shiloh brought his chewy to bed with him, how cute is he ( we are such proud puppy parents) love him!