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
An Inexpensive Drying Rack for the Laundry Room
When we lived in Phoenix I had a simple outdoor clothesline that I used regularly to dry delicate linens. Here in Texas, given the inclement weather, I needed an indoor solution. An Inexpensive Drying Rack for the Laundry Room. An Inexpensive Drying Rack for the Laundry Room A look back at this wall when we first moved in last October shows it was covered in a wire shelving rack that was barely hanging on. It was taken down, the walls were massively patched and received three coats ... View the Post
A Pretty Storage Solution for an Iron and Ironing Board
At Storybook Cottage I have tried to make the most of the small space our pantry/utility room offered by adding storage wherever I could. The wall where our pantry closet is located is a mere 2 feet wide. It seemed perfect for A Pretty Storage Solution for an Iron and Ironing Board. A Pretty Storage Solution for an Iron and Ironing Board None of the ready-made options appealed to me. A quick spin on Pinterest showed attractive ways to hang an ironing board. But what about the ... 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
A Slipcover for a Headboard
Happy Memorial Day! Do you have any special plans? Sweet Guy is participating in a cemetery ceremony with the Boy Scouts which promises to be very wet and we are having an indoor picnic since it is raining. In the meantime, I have been creating A Slipcover for a Headboard to match the Anthro Inspired Applique Curtains created for the guest bedroom. When decorating any room a repetition of an element is always a good idea. As you may recall I had cut off a good portion of the curtains so that ... View the Post
Anthropologie Inspired Applique Curtains
I’ve had a love affair going with applique curtains for a while now. Ready-made options were out of my price point so I created my own Anthropologie Inspired Applique Curtains. Anthropologie Inspired Applique Curtains I first saw them of course at Anthropologie. This is just one of the many styles they have had in past seasons. They cost what seemed like a million dollars for the curtains so I had to pass. Then I saw the café curtains that Vicky from the Linen Garden made. The ... View the Post
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