Category Archives: Artwork

07.02.13

Our Living Room.

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Last week I showed you some pictures of dining room with a promise of living room pictures on the horizon.  I always keep my promises people, so here you go!

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The gold leaf tray was a HomeGoods DIY.

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I love this piece.  It was a Mother’s Day gift made by E last year.

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See how I made this butterfly collection here.  The stools are from HomeGoods!

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It took a long time to find just the right paper for the ceiling.  I was thrilled that the winner was from Home Depot!  The chairs were a Craigslist find that I reupholstered.

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As you may know, the curtains were custom painted.

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I had my Grandmother’s piano bench reupholstered with a metallic cowhide. 2013-4-27 - Salmon Portfolio - Web - Larger (15 of 103)

Remember the Nate Berkus turtle shells that I painted?  Aren’t they fab?

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Found this needlepoint on Craiglist.  Had her made into a pillow.  We had leftover turquoise linen from the wingbacks, so I had two pillows made.  The Schumacher pillows are from Etsy.

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We love our new living room.  What I love most is that we didn’t break the bank creating it.

Photos by Ryann Colleen Photography

06.11.13

Flat Vernacular.

I have fallen in love with Flat Vernacular’s sticker wallpaper.  The company, created by New York artist, Peyton Cosell Tuner will create a customized wallpaper made of thousands of stickers then sealed with a clear coat of satin vinyl.  Be still, my heart.
For those of us not able to swing the price tag of the sticker wallpaper, FV also offers printed patterns that are pretty swanky.

05.29.13

Instagram on Canvas.

When looking for inexpensive artwork for the beach condo, I came up short.  I wanting something that was cost-effective, large-scale, beautiful and meaningful.  Enter CanvasWorld.
Last year, I took this picture while we were at the beach.
I Instagrammed it and loved how it turned out.
CanvasWorld is awesome because you can get an instant preview of how your gallery-wrapped canvas will look.
And there you have it.  I got a 30″ x 30″ personalized gallery-wrapped canvas picture for $149.99.

Can’t beat that.

Some of you have asked for my Instagram profile.  You can follow me on Instagram here.

02.20.13

Round Here

I finally got some cabinets for my laundry room.  (Ikea, of course.)

Bought these babies at Marshall’s for $4.99.  I also made a lot of progress in the Guest Bedroom…

I hung up some prints from Annie Flynn.
Finally got the bedding sitch squared away.
And will be hanging these ASAP.  Now let’s talk about this. 
 E had a Father-Daughter dance last Friday. First and foremost, the fact that I was able to get her out of sweatpants and a tee shirt deserves some serious props.  But how could this possibly be my little baby?     I can’t stand it.  

01.03.13

Gettin’ Shit Done.

The winter break gave me some time to ramp up on some projects that have been sitting on the bench for a while.  What frustrates me most is that I want instant gratification.  Unfortunately, some of these projects have now been started but are now on hiatus.  Like our living room for example.  I finally got my light fixtures installed, then I needed to have the drywall repair done on the ceiling to make way for the grasscloth wallpaper install.
 (That’s little Lou carefully watching our contractor Andy cut holes in our ceiling.)

 I couldn’t wait to get the picture light hung to highlight my butterfly collection.  I love it even more now.

I had a nervous breakdown when I realized that the raffia paper that I ordered is way to irregular and will show lines on the ceiling, no matter how well it is hung, so back to the drawing board to find the perfect paper.  Grrrrr…
As you know, my quest for Turtle Shells ended at Target, with Nate’s porcelain shells.  However, I was not psyched about the color selection.  
 So I amped them up with some gold spray paint.

We also finally got E’s Juju hat hung in her room.  (I accidentally broke the strings in the back and we had to restring the entire thing.)  Oye.

Just a few more things to do in her room and we will be ready for the big reveal!

I also bribed my Pops to hang the chandelier in the Guest Bedroom.

As you can see we need to do some paint touch-up around the base.
All-in-all, things are coming together.  Now that it is back to the daily grind, progress will be sporadic, but bit by bit, we’ll get there.