Mr. Décor’s large extended family arrives for a fall family reunion in just two short weeks. I am so glad that we have A New Brick Flowerbed for Fall and Landscaping Ideas. A New Brick Flowerbed for Fall and Landscaping Ideas Over the summer the Mr. and I have been hard at work ripping out all of the overgrown and half dead holly bushes, weeds and briar vine. We have also been hauling away tons of excess dirt out of the flower beds. It was finally time to install a flower bed border. If ... View the Post
Storybook Cottage Fall Home Tour 2015
Hello! Welcome to the Storybook Cottage fall home tour 2015 hosted by Marty at A Stroll Thru Life. If you have arrived for the first time from Hymns & Verses I am so glad you have come to visit. Doreen has truly fantastic style! Last year at this time I was living in a hotel with a husband, two kids, and two dogs. I am happy to be decorating for the fall season this year, so won’t you come in? Storybook Cottage Fall Home Tour 2015 Let’s begin the tour of Storybook Cottage in the small ... View the Post
The Ugly Garden Contain Yourself
I’ve been tearing up the garden beds in both the front and back yards. I would like to edge them with a permanent structure. In perusing Pinterest I found ideas under the titles of the garden border, garden planter, and garden edging. Stone garden wall and brick garden wall also produced some lovely inspiration. Get ready for The Ugly Garden Contain Yourself. When we bought the house the beds had metal landscape edging combined with plastic brick edging. The Ugly Garden Contain ... View the Post
A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops
Several of you have been waiting for this post since I first mentioned taking A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops in the Storybook Cottage kitchen. You had questions! I hope this post will answer them all. A Closer Look at the Kitchen Renovation Corian Countertops First and foremost in my heart of hearts if this would have been my forever home I would have installed white marble countertops. But this is just our “for the next few years” home. So, we had to ... View the Post
2015 Summer Tour of Homes Storybook Cottage
Today I am honored to be participating in the 2015 Summer Tour of Homes Storybook Cottage hosted by the marvelous Marty of A Stroll Thru Life. If you are coming here for the first time from SG Style welcome! My name is Laura and I am a part-time interior designer, full-time wife, mom and current university Art History major. Our family made another house move and we are slowly settling into our home, Storybook Cottage. It is a 30-year-old fixer-upper currently being transformed room by ... View the Post
Perfecting the Lived in Look
Recent trends for a majority of design blogs are a look of perfection. Posts feature rooms in which not a chair, rug, or even a small cup out of place. Even though, this is not real life. Perhaps that is why I find myself gravitating more and more to lovely homes that are Perfecting the Lived in Look. Perfecting the Lived in Look I am sure many of you are familiar with the website One Kings Lane. Did you also know that they have a Style Blog? A post on designer Jeffrey Bilhuber’s home ... View the Post