Our First Home/Decor

Scarlette’s Room | Sneak Peek

March 20, 2011 By Kayla Aimee

For the past few weekends we've been spending Saturday working on Scarlette's room and bathroom and then going to the hopsital at night for bathtime/storytime/bedtime. I wanted to share a peek at the progress with you. It just needs some finishing touches and…a crib, lol.

It's kind of hard to tell but three of the walls are a very pale pink. That was the previous color of the room when it used to be my scrapbooking space. Let me tell you how the bright pink wall came about.

Scarlette had just been born and Jeff rushed over to see her. Then he came back and was holding my hand and showing me the photos he took of her. At this point she is about three minutes old and I am still on the operating table (and they weren't sewing me back up yet either, they were still looking to see what caused me to go into labor so early.) And Jeff looks at me and says "I just love her. Can we paint one of her walls bright pink?"

It just struck me as so sweet, him seeing her and wanting to paint her room pink for her. It also makes me laugh, him asking me about paint choices in the middle of my c-section.

Everything that went into her room was very purposed and almost all of it was stuff we already had or gifts/hand-me-downs because our budget for her room was literally $0. I went exactly $50 over that budget :/

Here are a few details: My mother picked up that chandelier at an auction featured on the Auction Kings show. I'm pretty excited to have that little piece of history to share with Scarlette. The dresser was my mother's when she was a little girl, I'll share before and afters of it once we get the rest of the handles. We are planning on cloth diapering once Scarlette gets a little bigger, in case you noted them in the basket. I'll keep y'all posted on how that goes.

The whole room was based around the vintage pink and yellow Three Little Pigs record above the dresser. On the shelf is a photo of my grandmother Vonne that Scarlette was named for, a canvas to do her handprint on, an Anthropologie flashcard, my mother's tiara from winning a pageant when she was three (Hello 1960's Toddlers & Tiaras) and a frame decoration from my baby shower.

TFL! I can't wait to share the rest with you soon! And I really can't wait to bring her home and show it to her.

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Decorate My House + Before & After | The Kitchen

June 8, 2010 By Kayla Aimee

Thanks for all the sweet birthday wishes!

We finally finished the living room and I should have photos to share with you this week with my NEW CAMERA!

Y'all are probably thinking to yourself "Self, can this girl NOT make a design decision on her own?" and the answer to that is no, I can not.

(click to see the pictures bigger) I bought this table for practically nothing before we got married just for the chairs. Now it's moving to it's new home as Tiffani's sewing table and we're putting a high pub table in it's place. That's why the shelf is so high, because I was thinking ahead.

My problem is, I don't know how to use patterns. I love this tablecloth but I have no idea what to do with the windows.

Wooden blinds? We found some turquoise curtains but then I was like "Maybe that's too bright?" I was thinking about making matching curtains out of the cloth napkins but then I remembered that I don't know how to sew and now they're out of stock.

Whatever we do, I need to get something on the windows and quick, because I keep forgetting there are no curtains up and for some reason, I seem to always need to go in the kitchen when I'm in nothing but my undies. It's very inconvenient. For the neighbors.

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The Living Room: Come Together, Right Now

June 2, 2010 By Kayla Aimee

So, after hanging 5,923,364 pieces of newspaper on the wall in all of the framing combinations presented here, I decided to take the advice of those of you who recommended going more minimalist. I wish I'd taken your advice in the beginning because all that newspaper being strewn about the living room totally confused the puppy.

We're waiting on some sort of special cords to get here so that we can move the cable box and such to the shelves and then I'll get full room photos. Because this room? It's ALMOST DONE. It's the only room in the house that I will be able to call finished after this week.

I'm pretty happy with how it is coming together, it's not been easy trying to mesh my love of girly colors, thrift shop finds and oodles of trinkets with my husband's love of massive televisions, neutral colors, and zero clutter. I dare you to take that project on, Genevieve Gorder.

Although I can't believe I PAID MONEY for rocks and branches. But none of our trees have those kind of branches. And besides, I'm kind of avoiding trees in general, after that whole baby bird incident…

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Decorate My House: The Living Room (Part Two)

May 25, 2010 By Kayla Aimee

Here is my issue. I thought I knew what I wanted to do on this wall. We finally got a piece of furniture to hide all of our electronics in and I wanted to hang a collection of my frames above it. Sadly, that did not work out so well.

The issue is, there is a massive television over that fireplace (obviously I did not think this "compromise" thing all the way through). I was worried that it would look weird to have the frames on the wall next to it. I tried it and it turned out that weird was not my problem. My problem was that my seven frames looked like teeny little ants on that huge expanse of wall. Help.

So then I thought maybe I should take up the entire wall with frames. Like one of these options. But then I have to order either the hangers or the shelves first. And I am scared to do that without knowing if it will be ugly.

So what do you think? Should I try one of these? Which one do you think would work on that wall? Or should I scratch the frame idea all together and do something else there? And if so, what else could I do?

I'll be honest with you, the shape of this room is totally throwing me. This is why I should keep the Christmas tree up year round. The Christmas tree TOTALLY WORKED THERE.

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Remodel: The Guest Bathroom Before

March 24, 2010 By Kayla Aimee

I know you're all wondering how the remodel is going (it keeps you up at night, right?) and so I thought I'd give you a peek. This is the guest bathroom. I can see where this would have been a cute idea for a kid's bath, if it had been well executed. But please see image number two.

Right.

I totally see where they were going with that. The hardened drips of glue really add to the room. It speaks to me. Seriously, it says "why in the heckfire would anyone just leave all the glue drips to dry on the wall?"

I want y'all to know that the reason they are still on the wall is because I CAN NOT GET THEM OFF. I don't know what these people used to glue them to the wall but I would certainly like to. Because apparently, it's THE BEST GLUE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD and I've got a deer head I'd like to hang in the trophy room. Just kidding. I don't have a trophy room.

Someone suggested steaming them first, so that's my plan for next weekend. Steam and a crowbar.

Although if I can get one of those pink flamingos off in one piece, it's going straight in the mailbox for you, Ashley Wren. You are welcome.

(Side note: one of my favorite memories is of us girls decorating all of Tiff's dad's deer heads with tinsel and ornaments at Christmas. Y'all do that too, right?)