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The New Room.

Friday, February 18th, 2011

As promised, below are the before and after pics of our bedroom.  We went with sort of  an army green for our walls.  It was a very close match to the greeny/browny color in our awesome rug.  I love the bed island.  It’s a dream, really.

BEFORE:

We were definitely concerned about transitioning from a full to a king size bed, especially since our bedroom is already super tiny.  We didn’t really care, though.  We figured, what’s really the purpose of a bedroom?  If our room that has a bed in it became only that–a bed-room, it would be just fine.  Our desire for a more spacious bed won out in the end.  And the cool thing??  The room actually looks and feels much bigger to us.  Probably because we made it more our own.

AFTER:

Our amazingly talented friend, Brian, is currently building us the coolest platform bed you’ve ever seen with beautiful Oregon wood, Myrtle.  Don’t worry, we’ll show you pics when it’s all finished.

Have absolutely wonderfully beautiful weekends!

much love,

betsy

(look out next week for a new design project in the works)

***Song of the Moment: Neon Valley Street, by Janelle Monae***

Shedding Pounds.

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

My body is changing.  My house is changing.  My life is changing.  My adult life, my 30 year old life…it’s changing.  And it all begins with the shedding of pounds.

this is not even a small portion of it.

W and I started the year off by pretty much stealing the entire month of January for ourselves.  We gave bits and pieces to betsy & iya, but really, it belonged to us.  It all started when we decided to give each other a bed island (i.e. a king sized bed) for Christmas.  Initially, the decision was awesome.  After remembering we were paying a massive storage fee to the convenient Under-the-Bed Storage monsters, we realized what we were up against.  The day we went looking for a new mattress was the day our household President (me, of course) declared war on clutter.  At first, I thought we had no chance.  NO CHANCE.  Then we gathered our extremity army and started knocking them out, one storage nightmare at a time.

process picture.

hallway storage, BEFORE.

hallway storage, BEFORE #2

The country of clutter started waving its surrender flag moments before our new mattress from the amazing local shop, The Mattress Lot, arrived. We declared victory at 10 am in the morning, on a Monday.  We dumped at least 20 pounds of paper recycling and 100 pounds of wonderful (ahem) thrift store finds.  It felt good, really good, you guys.

hallway storage, AFTER.

for years, we've been trying to figure out what the heck these deep built-in cabinets would be most useful for. Can't believe I didn't think of it before now. Welcome to our new SHOE CLOSET.

And then the transformation began.

these shelves make me want to shed a tear every time I look at them.

And then January was over.

Tune in tomorrow for new bedroom pics, post–bed island installation.

love. so much love~

betsy

(The body post will come later this week.  Way too much to say about that.)

***Song of the Moment: Save Yourself, by Aesop Rock***

Things that I like in my house.

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Purchased at a St. John’s yard sale.

***Song of the Moment: Suburban War, by Arcade Fire***

Right Now.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

I love me a pink sunset…on my mama’s birthday.

***Song of the Moment: The Art Teacher, by Rufus Wainwright***