the Decorating Chica

Pin It Our last son moved out on his own about six months ago. About two days later I started converting his bedroom into an office. Why so soon? Well I was using a small bedroom as my office and it was dark during the day and late afternoon the sun shined into the only window making it hard for me to work on my computer. Well and probably the fact that I just hadn't refreshed a room in awhile and I was itching to do so! My goal was, however, to keep the budget down and 'use what I had' and so I set out to do just that! I kept the white/light paint that my son had used on the main walls and then used leftover black paint (used in our family room) for the 'focal' wall. Because this room has picture windows in front as well as a side window and is in the front of our house, it gets a LOT of sun and light. However I didn't want just a painted focal wall so started researching trimmed out focal walls.  I found tons of great ideas and love to gather all the ideas an...

And mine is no exception. For the past four summers living at this house I have been pondering what to do with the path the is in my back garden. This path was inherited and took shape as I cleared out the trash and the area and sort of just came to be. While I liked having a path through the area, I just never really knew what to do with. It is surrounded by trees (walnut trees to be exact) so in the fall LOTS of walnuts, and leaves drop back there which makes the hard surface decision difficult. I didn't want anything that would blow away with the leaf blowers and rakes, didn't want anything that would stain from the walnuts, you get the picture. But nothing usually results in something, namely weeds. So I started filling in with random pavers and some Quik Crete poured step stones just to keep the weeds down. Until one day, my husband and I were at an estate sale and I noticed a pile of bricks that was covered in dirt and surrounded by weeds. Asked the estate people if they ...