Romance Novel Author - Lifestyle Blog: Dagmar's Home
{This post was sponsored by Annie Selke as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own.}
It has been age that I’ve shown you our bedroom, and I’m thrilled to show you a makeover I just finished with Annie Selke home decor products! [Read more…]
I named our house the Blue Cottage for a reason.
I called it a cottage because it’s small. Not Manhattan apartment small, but small because there’s three of us and we happen to have a lot of things that need to fit into a house.
Okay, so I’m a bit of a furniture and home decor hoarder. And boxes full of vintage dishes, DIY supplies, interior design magazines, every letter and card I’ve received in the last 20 years, and Landon’s first clothes.
Plus, between the three of us we probably own 400 books.
I love our house, but it doesn’t have a basement or a garage — not even a shed. And Don being a finish carpenter and contractor, he doesn’t have space for all of his saws, tools, and supplies.
Things were always piling up on our porch, to the point where I installed curtains to keep the rain off of all the things that were stored there so they wouldn’t get ruined.
Since we moved in 2 1/2 years ago, I couldn’t wait to get a shed. [Read more…]
Welcome to Dagmar’s Home and the Blue Cottage Christmas Home Tour!
After writing blog posts about decorating our kitchen and how I made our Christmas tree taller, plus how I repurposed a vintage pie tin to make this centerpiece, here is the decorated living room of our Blue Cottage!
I’m so excited to show you because a lot of work went into it, and I really like how it turned out.
My Christmas theme for this year: simple, rustic, and a lot of plaid.
And bottle brush trees. [Read more…]
How do you restyle a room: do you start from scratch or work with your existing furniture pieces and then add new ones?
Today, I finally get to reveal our living room makeover! And I’ll tell you about my design process.
I’ve worked with Sauder Woodworking Co. twice before, and this time they challenged me to pick one Sauder piece, to showcase its versatility and functionality, and to pair it with a complimentary piece.
We have a long and narrow living room, with a fireplace on one end of the room and the TV on the other side. I decided to focus the makeover on the TV side.
Our living room was nice, but now looking back, it needed some love. [Read more…]
