Our first house, as we bought it (2007): And the house, as we left it (2013): Goodbye, house. © 2013, published by Making it Lovely as Empty | 56 comments | This post may contains affiliate link...
It’s starting to feel real. The house is starting to empty out a bit in preparation for showings. What a great time to skip town! A while back, I arranged an overnight trip with a few friends a...
There’s a sofa at Anthropologie that I keep calling the staff to pester about. I’m trying to catch it on sale once they’re ready to let go of the floor model so I can see if just maybe it c...
Can I make that sweeping generalization in the title? Probably not, but I do love having a pink rug in my living room. (Although those chevrons have been done to death. It was not so when I bough...
https://makingitlovely.com/2013/04/08/pink-rugs-the-choice-of-design-bloggers/
I spotted Room and Board’s new Murphy sofa online, and it was love at first site. (Get it? ‘Cause it was online? Never mind.) So I proceeded to have daydream fantasies of lounging on my lovel...
Yesterday, I showed you the upstairs, as it is decorated for Christmas. Today is all about the main floor. I did find a better place for my DIY Colorblock Christmas trees than the dining room hut...
https://makingitlovely.com/2012/12/21/christmas-decorations-part-2-downstairs/
Erin, of Apartment 34 has one. So did Morgan, of The Brick House. My dream coffee table. See it there, behind Erin? Here’s another shot of it, from Morgan. That’s the one I’ve been searchin...
So. Speaking of sequins, they’re featured prominently in my home for the holidays. The house may be photographed for a magazine (to appear in a Christmas issue next year), so I’m feeling extr...
https://makingitlovely.com/2012/12/05/some-christmas-decorating/
This new painting by Emily Rickard is making me all kinds of happy. (She sells prints and other products featuring this painting too.) When I mentioned wanting to “frame the new painting in the...
https://makingitlovely.com/2012/10/11/new-art-in-the-living-room/
We’d had our old coffee table for six or seven years. It was part of the Thomas O’Brien line for Target, and I still really liked it. Brandon had actually been the one who was interested in u...
https://makingitlovely.com/2012/09/20/a-vintage-wooden-coffee-table/