When Chairish asked me to do a post on my best find, I was flattered and terrified all at once.* I am TERRIBLE at picking favorite anythings. 95% of my furnishings are vintage/previously loved, so how do you even qualify such a thing? Is it the piece that has the most value in relation to what I paid? Is it the most rare? It’s like asking a parent to pick their favorite kid, you can’t – you love them all equally, yet uniquely.
Category: House Tour
Switcheroos
While we haven’t been making any more progress in the pantry, I decided to rearrange furniture and art everywhere. At least that is something that can be done and finished, until I do it again.
For those who participated in the Moon vs. Mushroom lamp vote on Instagram/FB..the Moon won in the end, simply because I liked the Mushroom in the dining room. I need to reshoot all these rooms in their entirety, but it has been so dark out for so long, I got tired of waiting. When the light returns…better photos will emerge.
And a major art rearrange in this corner…not loving it, but am rolling with it for now.
The entry feels more open without the deco buffet….
I have some fun things I hope I can share with you soon, but I can’t yet…in the meantime we are scrambling to make these things happen…cryptic, I know, but it hopefully explains our lack of progress on other fronts.
I have thrown up a few of these updated pics on the house tour since I realized they were pretty old, but when I re-shoot in good flat light, I’ll swap them out since these really are terrible. Please let the wet darkness end……
Exterior Tour Update
I realized I hadn’t added anything to the exterior tour in quite some time, so I updated with a few new, and a few familiar shots to get it current again. See the whole exterior tour here.
Mini Tour Outtakes
Thanks again to all of you who left such lovely comments on the mini tour…you really made this Nervous Nellie feel so much more at ease, and I’m grateful to have such awesome friends on these here interwebs.
I thought you might have fun checking out a few of the snaps showing some of the changes around here that didn’t make the cut!
I’ve purposely not shown much of the kids rooms because I feel like it’s invading their privacy, but I relented since we were doing a post about living with kids…they have to live somewhere, right?!
For this tour, I didn’t declutter as much as I usually do..I kinda let it be, especially in the kids rooms.
You can tell I was “keepin’ it real” here…the cluttered bulletin board etc..was not cleaned up …probably should have been!
The blue horses have moved to the dining room for the moment, but you know me, they’ll be somewhere else in a couple of months.
Can you believe it? No Otto photo bombs! Only because he was here while I was shooting…
He finally got tired of my shooing him behind me and decided to take advantage of my preoccupation by sneaking up to the boys rooms. Luckily it only cost us a pair of socks.
Mini-Tour
Hey guys, just popping in to say there’s a mini-tour of the digs over at Design Mom as part of her Living With Kids series! Thanks so much to Gabrielle for having me! Check it out here.
Switcheroo: Ninja Edition
My Facebook and Twitter followers might have heard me bemoan the fact that I might have to get rid of my faux lacquer asian tables. The very ones that went on to become famous. I’ve moved them around quite a bit, but they are kind of large to go just anywhere. They were not working out as night table storage because we are people who need drawers. Too messy..no one needs to see lip balm and melatonin, right?! TMI.
So…. when I scored some bedside tables on Craigslist last week, the asian tables were back in flux, and with the sale approaching, I started to worry the CC might push the subject of selling them. I simply wasn’t ready for that. My solution? Find a place in the house for them QUICKLIKE. I became a rearranging ninja, and after many room redos, I managed to save them…for now. They are pushed together to serve as a long table between the rattan at the fireplace.
So they are safe…. for the moment. The next time a favorite household item is threatened, I will quietly emerge from the walls….
…and will silently and stealthily rescue the defenseless.