Bedroom Renovation – Memoirs of a little thing called life

Hellooooo, DIY’ers.  I recently “e-met” Chloe from 

Memoirs of a little thing called life | Fashion and life in Leeds


“We recently bought a house that was built in the 1830s over in England. (How cool!)  It needed a complete renovation, serious renovation works, we may as well have rebuilt it. This is the main bedroom which we split into two. We tried to keep as much of the character as possible including the original floors and fireplace.”



I love old homes and old European homes have so much character.  This was Chloe’s bedroom before:




Now it’s an adorable country farmhouse bedroom full of 1830s charm…

The room is full of family treasures…

 Gorgeous vintage/sentimental (her Nan’s) chandelier…
“found” fireplace

Isn’t it adorable?  I just love it!


See more pictures, details and in-progress pictures at 




There’s a lot of fun, thrifty fashion finds to inspire you too!  🙂

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Roomspiration – Living Rooms

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Another fun day of Roomspirations – Living Room edition hosted by Kelly at 
View Along theWay
I haven’t share much about our living room in a while.  Nothing exciting or new going on in there except my new Shaw Ikat panel rug (you can win one HERE – Hurry! Today’s the last day to enter!).  The rest of the room is a “working with what we have” while other more important projects are going on.  It’s comfortable and it’s where Mr. DIY, Lalka and I hang out in the evenings.  In fact, I’m sitting on the love seat right this minute as I’m typing this up. There’s a lot going on in our living room but we love it. 
Our living room that will undergo another DIY transformation again one of these days but not any time soon. When we bought this house, it had old nasty stinky carpet.  Walls were painted wallpaper.  First thing – out came the carpet and pine floors were sanded, stained and poly was applied.  Wallpaper was scraped and  painted.

Before
After – you never see cat trees/posts/condos in magazines…but it’s real life for cat owners. I do love that hers is a neutral ivory fleece.
Because of the layout of the room – see the pictures where there is something on every single wall…the tv is most convenient over the fireplace for us and believe it or not, we don’t suffer from neck issues.  🙂 
Before
After

Before

After – French doors now separate this living room with another family room/library/office room (not even touched yet – another project for another time).  Sorry about the blinding lamp on the left…took this picture at night. (Lalka can usually be found at the top of Mt. Kitty.)

Before – scraping painted wallpaper over plaster walls. Not fun!

After

What do you think?  Now how about you?  Head over to the View Along the Way to see Kelly’s beautiful living room and join us in sharing your living room in the Roomspiration party!  Here’s the schedule for the rest of the linky parties. Hope to see you there!

abode love: a man\View Along the Way
  Involving Color
{ All Things Bright and Beautiful }  Touch of Gray
The Blooming Hydrangea  The Mustard Ceiling
 The DIY Show Off
Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!

Autumn Love Pinterest Linky Party

Welcome to the first official 
A special thanks to Heather from At The Picket Fence for the DIY button makeover. Isn’t it pretty?! Inspired by the colors from the “Cassity & Roeshel” room design challenge. Heather, dear blog friend – you are so sweet and talented and I love my special gift. Thank you!

Cooler temps, shorter days and changing leaves are making it hard to ignore that Fall is here.  I’m daydreaming of new boots, warm sweaters, warm, rich colors, spicy autumn scents and mouth watering comfort foods & aromas coming from the kitchen. Snuggling in and getting cozy. Here is my autumn Pinterest daydream in pictures…some of which are inspiring enough to become reality in my home…
  
Pardon my casualness but this is my favorite attire for fall…
This year I’m decorating for fall in soft muted creams, browns and golds with a touch of smokey turquoise, deep red and rusty orange this year:
I love turquoise paired with orange almost as much as with red…

Autumn inspiration…
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New fireplace mantel in the dining room would look so pretty like this:
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or this…
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Favorite Fall wreaths…trying to narrow it down to one:
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Time for dinner!
Chicken Corn Chowder

Can’t forget dessert…
Apple Crisp Cheesecake (OMGosh!!!)

I want to be right here, with my cheesecake, in my sweater socks reading through your links and what you daydream about.
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1. Please copy and paste the code above into your post to automatically add the button and link back.
2. Add your Pinterest related URL POST (not general blog address) into the linky party by clicking “click here to enter” shown below.
3.  Add a title.  (Your blog name, the topic of your Pinteres
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4.  Select a picture that best fits your post to use as a thumbnail.
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6. Party stays open for one week.

Link up, daydreamers!

As you know (how could you not?! Thanks for the patience for my daily reminders), I’m working really hard to make a dream come true…please vote for Cassity & Roeshel by clicking the picture below. We really need your help, desperately!  You’re also entered to win new flooring for your home every day you vote!  We want to see new flooring/new area rug in our readers’ homes! YOUR HOME!
Did You Enter to Win new flooring and Vote for Cassity & Roeshel today? Please do!
We’d LOVE your vote even more than apple cheesecake (although it’s very close) and there’s still 2 days to enter the area rug giveaway (winner’s choice of style and size – imagine winning a huge 9×12 FREE for your livingroom, bedroom, garage – wherever you want to put it)! Thank you SO SO SO much to those entering and voting.  I can’t tell you enough that your help to make a dream come true means so much! If our room wins, we’re given an all expense paid trip to HGTV’s Urban Oasis in Chicago, dinner and 2 nights at Trump International Hotel. Keeping my fingers crossed!

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