Basement Family Room Reveal

So our Basement is DONE!! Yay.. more living space.. and the best part is now we have a carpeted play area for our daughter.. If you have been following you know we chose a cozy Grey carpet, a grey  ledge stone for our fireplace and Benjamin Moore Grey Owl paint for the walls.. Wow I guess there are fifty shades of Grey! ;) The decor theme is more relaxed with coastal touches to flow with our backyard pool view.. We kept our basement slightly different than our upstairs with more grey and industrial accents .. See the FULL reveal below..

Neutral Winter Decorating

So I've changed up some of our decor since all the Christmas decorations came down. I am a neutral girl at heart so here are some ways I infused woods, creams and whites in our house.

More changes to our Wooden Planter Box

So I found this great planter box a few summers ago while antiquing.. I loved its large size, but I wasn't quite sure how I felt about the natural wood.. I left it for almost a year just to see if it would grow on me.. It didn't!! So around Christmas time I painted it with Annie Sloan chalk paint in Paris Grey. I love the grey paint colour but the one tone was throwing me off.. I left it for the holiday season but it really wasn't the look I had envisioned. Finally last week I couldn't take it anymore, so I took my trusty Annie Sloan Old White chalk paint and started painting. Then I applied a subtle rubbing of Country Grey chalk paint over it to warm it up a bit. Lastly I lightly sanding it for a rustic distressed look. See how it all turned out below...

Fav's Friday - Storage ideas

For today's Fav. Friday I chose some easy industrial storage ideas. Here are some ways to add a industrial style into your existing decor, closets or shelving.

Shannon from AKA Design shared her White washed numbered crates.. Numbered for easy to find items for kids..can't you just see it ..'put your puzzles back in #1', Plus they will look industrial and pottery barn-ish.. what a great afternoon project!

Check out the full tutorial at AKA Design + Life Blog

My Sweet Savannah Blog shared this amazing closet system she made using industrial pipe.. What a great looking idea.. This would be really cool in a boys room or even a finished Garage??

Check out Melaine's Blog to see the FULL Tutorial.

Thanks for looking today! Hope you have a FABULOUS Weekend!!!

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Fav's Friday - Christmas Home Tours

'Tis the season.. Christmas is less than a week a way.. and just in case your not already in the holiday spirit... Tour these gorgeous homes and I guarantee you will start to feel festive instantly!!

First we have Bre's Woodland Glam Christmas Over at Room's for Rent Blog. This is just a sneak peek of her kitchen.. The rest of her Christmas home tour is just as amazing!!

Shanya continued to amaze me over at the Wood Grain Cottage, Check out her gorgeous Rustic Christmas Home decor HERE

Kelly recently shared her Classic Christmas Tour over at The Lily Pad Cottage. This is a must see home!! Her house screams Christmas with whimsical touches. Check it out HERE.

If you missed our Neutral Christmas Tour you can see it HERE

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Fav's Friday ~ Amazing DIY's

Here are my Fav's for this week.. I was in the DIY spirit..Check out these Talented Bloggers inspirational tutorials and learn how to create Vintage inspired Decor for your home!

Lindsay from My Creative Days made these amazing industrial pendants from Vintage Galvanized metal.. Check out her Blog for her full details on how she made DIY Kitchen Light Fixtures

Check out this gorgeous Rustic Shutter Bench from Liz Marie Blog.. Check out Liz's blog for a full tutorial on how to make one of these benches for yourself. 

Oh my gosh I just love this Industrial Style rolling Cart.. what a great way to create more display space. Check out Jennifer's blog Dear Lillie for her FULL tutorial.

If you liked the above tutorials you may like Our Kitchen Island Transformation

View the Full details on how we Transformed a vintage desk to kitchen island HERE 

Thanks for looking today.

If you missed our Holiday Home Tour you can see it HERE

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Rustic Christmas decor in our Basement

For our basement I kept with the Neutral Christmas theme but added some subtle touches of red. I  hung a red striped jute webbing garland off a antique Barn door.. Isn't this door amazing??..  This past summer I found a trio of doors with the glass still intact for $75 for all 3!! so I jumped at the deal even though I had no idea where they would go or how my hubby would react.. Thank goodness for free delivery ;) We originally had them outside leaned against our fence for the remainder of summer but we brought them in for winter.. 2 are hiding in storage and 1 is leaning against our walls behind this bench , I like the way it looks so much I may just keep it there!

For some sparkle, I hung a Vintage Glass ornament garland across our chicken wire Frame.

I filled a weathered wooden planter box full of an assortment of smaller metallic ornaments and placed it on our end table.

 

Behind our couch I placed a small Christmas Vignette using wooden 'Merry Christmas' blocks and two small trees with rustic wooden tree trunks.

I moved the large Burlap body pillow from our Fall Porch display indoors to this bench. I wrapped cream and red ticking stripe fabric around it and then added a bow.. It changed an ordinary pillow into something festive.. And the best part is I'm not locked into any colour scheme..I can change it up whenever I like this way;)

You can see our Full Holiday Home Tour HERE

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The Happy Housie - Work it Wednesday

From my Front Porch to Yours - Treasure Hunt Thursday

Katherine's Corner - Thursdays Favorite Things Blog Hop

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Adding Woven Jute Ribbon to Our Christmas Tree

Today is just a small post on my latest Homesense Holiday find.. A woven roll of 3 inch burlap jute trim on this great rustic wooden spool.. for only $5.99.. I honestly thought I was seeing things.. Plus it was 10yrds for under $6.. that's almost unheard of!!! When I first bought it I wasn't quite sure where it was going to go.. I just knew I NEEDED IT!! 

Past Christmas Decorating

Very excited to share our Christmas decorating this year...  I am just in the middle of taking some photos and editing and then I will be posting Our Current Home's Christmas decorating, hopefully within the next week.. Here are some ways I have decorated for the holidays in the past. Hopefully you will be inspired to get started on your holiday decorating too :)

Mantel decorating: Hanging a banner or a Garland..

Coffee Table Decor: Bowl of bells or Extra Ornaments

Christmas Throw Pillows: Red and cream Striped ticking fabric & Burlap Believe Pillow

Candle/ Vase Filler: Cinnamon Sticks.. Looks pretty and Smells great too.

Table Decor: Glass cloche with wooden star wrapped in starry lights from Restoration Hardware.

Stay tuned for our upcoming Christmas Tour

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Decorating with Dried Hydrangeas

So I admit it! I am OBSESSED with Dried Hydrangeas! They are just so beautiful to me.. Hydrangeas also hold a special place in my heart because they were our wedding flower. I have them literally ALL over my home! I feel as though they are timeless and classic and look great for any season. The light Creamy ones are my favourite. Some flowers I have dried myself while others I have bought on EBAY. I Love them so much and have tried so many times to dry them on my own and they NEVER turn out. The only time they dried out perfectly is when I wasn't trying .. how sad!! I said before I am not a gardener or plant person.. I'm missing that green thumb! I just like Pretty!!

Shared with the Vintage Inspiration Party at Knick of Time Blog

These are Hydrangeas from one of our previous homes Garden's.. They dried perfectly on the bush so I cut them off in Fall and placed them in the vase and they have been there ever since.. They even get special prevlidges in a box in my car during each of our moves so they don't get damaged! This is the best and fool proof way that I have found to to dry hydrangeas .. Wait till the end of season (end of August roughly) until the Hydrangeas are pretty much dry on the bush, then cut them off and hang them to dry for a few days upside down... then voila.. beautiful dried hydrangeas!!

 In our kitchen we have a galvanized tin vase full of a dark caramel bouquet of dried hydrangeas. I recently bought at my local garden centre. They were 50% off so approx. $12  for the bunch.. They are nice and full in a unique darker shade, darker than I typically choose.. But since I have such a hard time drying myself I couldn't pass them up! And the colour looks great with all our Fall Decor.

These are my big slurge From Ebay.. I just love them.. Plus the shop has super fast shipping. I really shouldn't share my secrets as I am sure the bids will go up now :( But then again I guess I don't really NEED anymore! The flowers can get expensive but they are full and gorgeous and hopefully will last a very long time!! SO I felt the price was justified. ($32 was my winning bid for 14 flower stems.. plus $15 shipping.. Ouch!!! But what a BEAUTIFUL Investment!!)

These are ones I dried..See the difference??? They are sentimental as they are from our Daughter's 1st Birthday Party..  But you can really see the difference.. Well at least I tried!! See why I need the Ebay ones!!... I love the look of laying Dried flowers in wicker baskets for a french relaxed look.

 Here are some blue and cream ones from Ebay as well.. I bought them originally for our Grey nautical themed basement and had some left over.. and since the guest room has a blue and white theme going I thought they would go perfect in our white ceramic vase, styled beside some Navy Blue Antique encyclopedias.

 Here is the full bunch of the Blue and Cream Dried Hydrangeas in a cement planter in our basement. The planter is currently on top of a designer book in a tray on our ottoman. BUT it may need to be switched up.. as our daughter has recently figured out that she can pull off the petals.. Yay!! ;(

Last by not least .. My favourite look.. Our Dining room centrepiece... It's a mix of some of my favourite things.. Cream Candles, light coloured dried hydrangeas, glass jars, burlap and wood. I placed the stems in little glass milk jugs inside this rustic wood box that I found one day when I was antiquing.. It was only $8, that's literally less than I could make one for! The dining room centrepiece also features Glass Hurricane vases with Cream coloured Vanilla Candles from Ikea wrapped in Jute webbing secured with Upholstery tacks.

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