Spring Decorating

I added a few Spring and Easter touches in our Living Room and Kitchen.  Since adding the new teal-ish blue bar stools, I have been adding bits of that color in this area.  Let's start in the kitchen, my favorite spot.

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Spring Mantel (& Family Room)

This past weekend, I finally got around to adding some Spring touches to our stone fireplace.  Now, we just need Spring to stick around in these parts.  It feels wrong to have a fire burning with bunnies on the mantel :)

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Coffee Table (Ikea Hack)

We recently completed our latest Ikea hack.  I am always on the lookout for a great way to customize Ikea pieces.  I knew that I wanted a square coffee table and the dimensions of Ikea's Hemnes table were just what I was looking for.  We used Ikea Hemnes pieces to "hack" our mudroom so we knew that it was all wood and would hold up over time.  Using inspiration from what Centsational Girl and City Farmhouse had done with their Ikea coffee tables, I decided to start hacking yet again.

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Happy First Day of Spring

Hello and Happy Spring!  We are so happy to say goodbye to a very long winter.  Today, I am sharing a wreath I recently made that is so cheery and spring-y.

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Entryway Makeover

When we set out home goals for this year, we decided that this would be a year of smaller, less expensive projects.  I am happy to say we have completed our first project from that list.  The front entry of our home is a bit awkward.  There are lots of stairs and doorways.  Here is how it looked last fall, before we added the white planking.

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New Barstools

For Spring, I wanted to add some pops of color to our neutral living room.  We had painted the walls a greige (Behr Castle Path) last Fall and since putting all of our Christmas stuff away it felt pretty plain. We picked up these stools at Target and I love the color it brings to the space.

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Target Clearance Frames & Waterlogue prints

I have mentioned many times before my love of clearance items at Target.  Seriously, it's an addiction.  Add to that the pictures I printed using the Waterlogue app, and that makes for a happy day for me.

 I wanted to get some prints made of the pictures I created using the popular app.  I didn't want them to be glossy.  Or look like photographs.  And I wanted them today.  Well, duh.  There is a printer sitting there next to me.  I should print them on my very own printer!  I purchased some linen business cover stock at Office Depot and proceeded to print out some of my favorites. The linen paper adds a great texture to these prints.  I love the way houses come out with this app.  So I scanned some pictures of the houses we have renovated and put them all in one frame.  This now resides in our foyer.  I love being able to see all that we accomplished in one frame.  I look at these pictures and see a load of sweat equity and a ton of amazing memories.  We brought our babies home to our first two homes.  And the middle house with the front porch that Billy built me for my 30th Birthday ten years ago, well I think that may always be my favorite.  My babies were babies in that house.

Frame from HomeGoods- $19.99

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