Apartment Tour

Apartment Tour! Living Room

- Melody 3 Comments

UPDATED 5/30/17! Check out how Wayfair handles TV stands in small spaces!

Yes! Finally! After two months I’ve dubbed this place decent enough to show to the internet. I thought I’d spare you from the 43 photo heavy post and split it up by room. That way you can get the full experience.

Up first, we’ve got the living room. 90% of what you’ll see in my place is either free, thrifted or Craigslist. A la Vintage Revivals style.

The patio door on the left side of the living room. That light!Craigslist couch score.

 

THAT COUCH THO. It was a sweet Craigslist score right before I moved. It fit snugly in the bed of my dad’s truck and after a quick coat of pink paint by Valspar, it brought it into my eclectic mess of a style.  (heart emoji eyes all day.)

A plant from our big move at work.Target floating shelves.

 

These white floating shelves were a surprise find at Target. The three of them, just sitting there, waiting for their mama to take them home. $7 a piece I was happy to do it. But the instructions LIEEEED. You’re apparently supposed to easily just shove the plastic anchor screws with no pre-drilled hole. Well, an early 1900s apartment has PLASTER WALLS and needs a really big pre-drilled hole. After an hour of sweating in a contorted position at 11:30 one night, I threw down the screwdriver and gave up. I gave it another go a couple days later once I cooled off and pre-drilling is the key. That bottom one though, since it’s the first one I did, is leaning wayyyy down. Whenever I decide to rehang it I’ll have to patch the hole and paint over it. Fingers crossed.

See that little white dresser? I’ve since replaced it with a tiny, half-moon shelf, but Wayfair had some better ideas! Check out the post they wrote collaborating with other bloggers living in small spaces here! Once I (FINALLY) get to move someday, I can’t wait to check out what options they have. I’m way into mid-century these days and there are some crazy cool ones right now! Like this, this and this. ALL FOR UNDER $300! How do you style your TV stand?

Goodwill score!

 

Both of the chairs were thrifted; the gold a $20 Goodwill score and the green tweed a $2.50 (YES. $2.50) estate sale. I think the green tweed is a little bulky for this space so I’m thinking a slim, worn-in leather chair would really fit better. The gold chair needs a recovering in a cool, modern gray or a bold navy. That’s beyond my skillset right now, but maybe someday. There’s a rogue blue suede footstool that the snake tongue plant is chilling on. It belongs with a matching wingback chair that just couldn’t fit in this place. It is SCREAMING for a hot pink velvet makeover!

Patio!

Both of the plants are scores from our big work move. I’m trying hard not to kill that snake tongue plant. It’s in desperate need of a repotting. Hopefully it’ll survive! My green thumb really only applies to succulent and cacti, but I actually killed a succulent last week so I’m not sure how accurate that is. All of the photos bordering the patio door are from Social Print Studio, my personal fave for easy Insta prints.

SO THERE YOU GO! It’s been two months and I change something almost every day. Since I shot this I’ve already changed several noticeable things. It’s like that game where you have two pictures side by side and have to note the differences.

 

Still to do:

-New entry table/shelving
-Replace green tweed chair
-Bleach dropcloth curtains and add pompom stripes
-Hang wicker pendant over green chair
-New, bigger rug
-New coffee table
-Art for gray statement wall

Totally achievable with a little saving!

 

What do we think? What would you do in this space? I think I’ve solved my rug dilemma! Good news on that front. Let me know your thoughts!

 

xx

House Tour: Living and Dining Room

- Melody 4 Comments

This is pretty much the only room in our house that is actually (semi) finished! Our bedroom is missing carpet, our game room has glue all over the wood floors, and the guest room just needs work! We’re hoping to save up enough money to move in the next couple of years so we’re not putting any money into this house until then. Yay, moving!

Surprisingly, every single thing in this room is free (or cheap!) to us. It was either gifted, found, or from our wedding. The couches and dining table were given to us by our parents and all the vases, linens, and throws were gifts or thrifted. The side tables were bought at a flea market. We really needed those! We were using the floor and an old chair 🙂 Our liquor/linen cabinet is from Jason’s work. They were cleaning out the home economics room and we snatched it up! Can’t wait to refinish it and reline the back and hopefully add another shelf. There’s too much vertical space in the bottom for me! The antlers on the mantel were found in Colorado by my aunt and uncle. The baby’s breath in the vases are from our wedding table. Yes, I’ve kept them for two years. It’s probably time to throw them away? The chevron lampshade is a DIY I did last summer, one of my favorites in the room!

Still to do in here are curtains, trim around the ceiling, cushion for our bench, and recover dining chairs! Looks like a big trip to IKEA is in order… 🙂

House Tour: Dormpartment

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1. Showing off her collection of vintage cameras.
2/3. Plate tower housing all of her jewelry and fragrances.
4. Her DIY fabric pom pom balls.
5. More cameras.
6. Her solution to the handicapped bathroom situation. A vintage sheet!

There’s still some work to do. Shel wants to paint the two blank canvases ombre and get some lamp shades. She’s pretty proud of how it’s all coming together and looking like home! It’s especially great since she has the entire apartment to herself! So what do you think?

House Tour: Dormpartment

- Melody

This is my sister’s apartment! She ended up getting it by herself after a little incident with the other bedroom which you can read about here. Those limbs in the corner with the sparkle lights on it are from my parents willow tree in their backyard. The owls and lamps were thrifted and we put thrifted vases from my wedding in her big window sill. On the table sits her beta fish, Lewis. The shelves are $16 Target shelves that she put her microwave, silverware, and pots and pans in because it’s near the sink and two burners. The shelves also keep her books, cameras, and DIY silver owl. Her fridge keeps her homemade magnets and important reminders. The cork squares are from Hobby Lobby where she pinned up her favorite pictures of friends and family! The circle garland was made by her from a Pinterest project. Pretty neat, huh?

What do you think? Second part later today!

A Tour of My Office

- Melody

Yes. I have an “office”. The sewing machine sits there and so does the laundry. It has lovely fluorescent lighting and three laundry baskets. It’d be somewhere else but there is no where else. But I love it. 🙂 Care to take a peek?

Ta-da! Isn’t she gorgeous? Remember this post? It’s finally all coming together. That chair is from a dining set my sister-in-law gave us. The four chairs and the table are being used in various places around the house. The bulletin board is part of me. I think I’ve always had one. I just like them. I keep extra fabric in that basket under my chair. Partially because it’s the only place it looked good and partially because it’s the only place that looked good. And that’s a trash can.
Here I keep my paintbrushes, pencils, scrapbooking scissors, push pins, and thread. That’s my wedding binder. 🙂
On my board I keep tear-outs of outfits from JCrew catalogs that I can actually recreate. There are Passion memorabilia, my wedding garters, bathtub pictures of me and my childhood best friend, pictures of my sisters, thank you cards, love notes from husband, and things that make me feel really good.

In my DIY whirlwind on Monday, I painted this on the wall.
Now it’s not so monotone in there!

In addition to this nook in the laundry room I have a small music room that really is like a hallway. It’s in the part of the house where previous owners added on so there are two doorways on opposite walls which makes it impossible to put any furniture in normal places. I’m still working on it constantly but I’ll be sure to post when I feel like it’s getting close!

Do you have an office? Is it girly? Or is it a nook like mine?