Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
I have a small storage room in the back of our house — that I call the Blue Cottage because it’s blue and decorated like a little cottage — that has never really received much love since we moved in years ago. [Read more…]
Let me show you how to create this hutch makeover with chalk paint. Repainting furniture with chalk paint is so satisfying because you can start painting right away. There is no need to prep the piece with sanding beforehand.
What would you do with six hours of free time?
I had hours of time a few days ago, and I used it to get out my Annie Sloan Chalk Paint® can and finished painting our hutch in the living room.
I had painted part of it about a year ago to take picture on it for my Etsy store — I wanted a spot for pictures with a white background — but I never liked the look of the distressed, off-white lower part and the crisp white upper part of the hutch.
See what I mean? Not pretty.
Are you wondering about the country cottage decorating style? I decorate with cottage and farmhouse decor in our Blue Cottage.
The nice thing is that decorating with white and brown decor can be combined with many other styles very easily.
I could look at pretty pictures of country cottage decor and farmhouse decor on Pinterest all day.
I recently noticed how much I pin pictures of white rooms with wood accents.
There is just something soothing about a mostly white or off-white room and brown accents from furniture, wood beams, or home decor items.
Here are a few of those pictures of cottage decor with white and brown accents. Let’s start with a super-cute cottage:
I love decorating for any holiday, and that includes Valentine’s Day.
Over the years, I’ve written many post about easy DIY Valentine’s Day ideas about decorations, crafts, and the cutest heart-themed food ideas.
To make it easy for you to find all of them in one spot, here they all are!
Let’s just assume for a second that you don’t live in a mansion.
I don’t. We live in a charming but small house without a basement that I lovingly call the Blue Cottage.
There never seems to be enough storage in a kid’s room for all the toys, collections, trophies, and clothes, right?
Let’s just assume you also have limited space to work with.
Then you’ll enjoy this post of how I maximize storage in my son’s room.
You can’t be organized and have everything in its place if you don’t first add some storage solutions.
5 Easy Ways to Add Storage to Your Kid’s Room
1. Inexpensive, Stackable Storage Containers [Read more…]
