Easy Ways to Add a Mid-Century Touch to Your Home
My mom loves a good mid-century home. It's not my ideal home decor style but I do appreciate it when it's done correctly. So for today's "Easy Ways to Add (BLANK) Touch to Your Home " I thought I would focus on this style. But before we get into how to complete this, what the key features of the mid-century design? It mainly is comprised of low-slung sofas, tapered furniture legs, daring geometrics, and sultry tweed and velvet. The color palette roughly is pumpkin orange, avocado green, and mustard yellow.…
View PostEasy Ways to Add a Vintage Touch to Your Home
Who doesn't love a little vintage charm in their home. It's cute and timeless, mainly as most of the pieces are really freaking old. Or made to look at way. Vintage home decor goes hand and hand with rustic decor, but is just ever so slighly different. So what makes vintage home decor differ from rustic home decor? Vintage is more focused on sweet floral patterns, romantic spring colors, and distressed finishes. Whereas rustic is more focused on distressed finishes, neutral colors, and farmstyle accents like chicken wire. It's more raw than vintage is. So on today's "Easy Ways to Add (BLANK) Touch to Your Home" I'm going to be focusing on vintage. …
View PostEasy Ways to Add an Industrial Touch to Your Home
My ideal home decor style is a mixture of rustic and industrial. I have already done a similar post of easy ways to add a rustic touch to your home. So today I wanted to focus on the industrial style. This style is making a comeback and you can find more products of this type in stores, which makes it so much easier to add industrial touches to your home. And I know once I get my own place, this will be one of the main two styles running through my next place. So how do you add an industrial touch to your home if it wasn't originally designed like that.…
View PostEasy Ways to Add a Rustic Touch to Your Home
My ideal home style is somewhere between rustic and industrial. And lately this is one of the more current home decor trends that have made it's way into the stores. Not that it wasn't around before, but finding pieces that fit into that category was more difficult. I particularly love this style as it remains me of a ski lodge, grandparent's cabin, and my aunt's farmhouse when they used to live there. It's a simple design that just makes me feel like grabbing a throw blanket, cuddling up on the couch and watching a fire with enjoying a nice cup of hot chocolate. As it features a lot of nature-inspired textures, calming earth tones, and organic aspects that bring the spirit of the outdoors inside or around the home. I'll focus on the second home decor style, I love in another post similar to this one. But let's focus in on the first one, rustic, and how to add a rustic touch to your home.…
View PostPhoto Diary: Christmas Decorations
It's Christmas time! And we've decorated my mom's townhouse with all the decorations from snowman to Christmas tree to centerpiece on the table. This is my mom's first time having a "pretty" tree as she puts it. Meaning, not putting up all the ornaments my sister and I made over the years when we were kids. Which caused my sister, Lucy, to get frustrated since she wasn't excepting it. Especially considering this is also the first year my mom put up a fake tree not a real Fraiser tree. And I sided with my mom with the fake tree with the non-childhood ornamenets. We decided to go with a gold and red theme for the tree as my mom found ornaments of that color pattern that she loved. Plus it's also the colors of my sister's favorite hockey team, so once I pointed that out she was happier with the tree. I personally would love to have my blue and bronze ornaments with white woodland creatures, but I'm apparently the only one in our family that loves that. Hopefully next year I can bring that back. But for the meantime, I'm quite happy with this tree. So here is a little photo diary of our Christmas decorations.…
View PostDreaming of an Industrial/Rustic Living Room
One thing when I move in April that I'm going to try my hardest to save up for to achieve is creating an apartment that actually looks like something out of an HGTV show or magazine. I know I won't be able to do it right away but I'm tried of having a "college" like place. And by that I mean a bunch of random things thrown together that looks more like a place I crash rather than a place I live in. So the first room I want to tackle in the new place is the living room as this will also double as my study most likely. So throughout the house I want to have a industrial yet rustic feel.…
View PostWhat Your Home Design Style Says About You
‘Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.’ – Gianni VersaceThis famous Gianni Versace quote can be easily translated into interior design as well. Your home décor isn’t, or at least, is not supposed to be a mere reflection of current fads. More frequently, it speaks about who you are and how you like to live your life. It is the picture of yourself you are presenting to the world. So, considering the most popular interior design styles, let’s see what kind of picture you are sending.…
View PostLife Through Death Painting Series
This is a painting series that I've been working on for my bedroom. Two of the paintings I have technically done before the first one being the a heart with flowers and the second being a ribcage filled with flowers. I decided when I was going to make a third painting around the same theme that I wanted literally everything to match. So I painted over all of them that way they would look way more uniform. After creating the first painting in the series I decided to name it "Life Through Death." Since all the paintings basically involve items that would be dead with flowers symbolizing life somewhere in the painting.…
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