I thought today we could get you some reveal photos of our cali casual living room, since we probably won't be getting to much else in the room for quiet a bit with our baby boy on the way.
Read MoreIt’s been a long while since we’ve had the chance to create another interior design coloring page for all of you, but I was inspired to do another dining room when we found this amazing new dining table on Craigslist a few weeks ago. See all our past Color It Sunday pages by clicking on the projects tab or here.
To say we’ve had a lot going on lately would be a huge understatement. With the move into a much larger historic home in September, the One Room Challenge Nursery just getting wrapped up, the holidays, and our little Man scheduled to arrive shortly after the new year, we have been busy for sure.
You know what they say about the busy times? Be prepared to be even more busy... we must put out some special smell (sweat?!) that tells everyone that now is the time for other opportunities to come along. We’ve had multiple potential projects and clients give us a call over the last few weeks with intriguing possibilities, you have to wonder why it all happens at the same time! But we sure are grateful for these fun prospects.
That’s why if you noticed, we took last week off and just enjoyed Thanksgiving at my sisters place without posting. But today we are back at it with an industrial dining room inspired by a wonderful friends kitchen/ dining remodel.
The dining room is a mix of industrial, mid-century, and rustic. You know how much I love a good eclectic mix and our friends do too.
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Would you create a feature wall? Some really modern art in the frames, find a few classic oil paintings, or some vintage posters?
Color it up and let us see your results on social media #thglcoloringpages, and thank Libby for the inspiration 😍.
I know your thinking what is she going to do with yet another mid-century piece but look at those legs!!? It’s a big house I think it can handle some more mid-mod eclectic love.
I practically threw the money at the seller when my mother, daughter and I went to go “check it out”. Which is obviously code for I already know I’m getting this thing unless it’s falling apart. I guess I beat out the man driving from upstate NY to come take a look!
It’s just going to hang out here in the dining room with all this wonderful, amazing wallpaper (sense the sarcasm) for a while.
It needs a complete refinishing job, chairs, and something glamorous as a light fixture (Sputnik again anyone?), but eventually we will get around to this as well.
We are really debating a traditional chair with the table or going for it and grabbing something modern and matchy. what would you do?
Over the last 7 weeks we have dealt with a lot of late nights and nap time projects while designing and constructing this natural & soothing boy's nursery. Honestly though, we are so grateful it’s done and that the One Room Challenge helped us complete the nursery before the baby arrives. It very well will be the only room in this Colonial we will complete for a long while, so we made it count!
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We knew this would be the nursery right away, with its little nook area and original closet/ doors, it already had the character and room we wanted.
Shelving wasn’t hard to think up for this spot since we still have wood that was milled from a beech tree at our old house. With some very inexpensive hardware and hunter-green paint, we wrapped up the nook shelving on no time.
It only took half a second for me to realize the wallpaper was not going to work, with the windows facing south this room gets a fair amount of light that only further excentuated the extreme yellow. So we took it down in favor of a painted design and opted out of more wallpaper which would have been costly; and I couldn’t bare to put any up after painstakingly taking so much down.
Using green as our accent was an easy decision after we found this geometric baby blanket at a local store. The blanket really kicked off the entire rooms design but it was just one amazing piece we found from local or small makers for this room.
The crib was reused from our daughters nursery to save funds for other splurges, and because I’m not sure I could find another crib we love as much as this one. When we got it in 2015 (it’s discontinued) we wanted something gender neutral so that it could be reused.
We painted this vintage mid-century dresser to use as our changing table and added long leather pulls for a natural element.
The leather strapped shelf above the changing table was hung extra high (hey were super tall folks) so no head bashing would occur in the middle of the night. And that left ample room for the night light sconce we made to hang on the wall.
One thing we worried about was that the room would get too busy with all the things needed for a baby. So we kept the art minimal but meaningful.
I commissioned an Etsy artist (shop here) to create a print of our 67’ Chevy Bel Air Wagon as a mini-surprise for Mitch, but our daughter is the one that fell in love stating that was her vroom vroom!
We made the art impactful without breaking the bank by only picking items that had a link to us in some way.
I started by narrowing down some fantasy novel quotes I really like and saw before we even knew we were pregnant, some beautiful horse prints to go with the wild and free sign, and a couple of forest prints that sparked joy.
Once I had 6-8 good options I sent them to Mitch for final selection so that they would mean something to him as well. Like the Lord of the Rings quote, (he could care less about anything fantasy related) but picked this quote because he felt it was truly something he wanted his little boy to know and had meaning in the real world.
The rocking chair was another item we reused from our daughters nursery. Having searched to find something both unobtrusive and comfortable for our tall frames, we weren’t ready to give this up. The side table is actually a stool we painted black so it would work with the reading wall sconce.
Lighting was something we really needed to debate for the space, because it didn’t have any overhead lights and we didn’t want to spend more for our electrician just after fixing a bunch of code issues just last month.
So we created a lighting plan that addressed all the areas we would be using. The changing table, a general overhead light and the rocking chair/ reading area.
Overall we couldn’t be happier to start spending some major time in this space with our little boy!
Catch up on all the posts here:
The Design | Custom Artwork | Mid-Mod Dresser with Leather Pulls |
Updates | Nursery Closet | XOXO Feature Wall
Crib (Similar) | Crib Pillow | Knot Pillow | Mobile (2) | Geometric Blanket | Rocking Chair | Side Table (similar) | Leather Pouf | Chair Pillow | Seagrass Basket | Lake Print | Horse Print | Brass Frame | Wild & Free Sign | Shelf Baskets | Brass Giraffes | Wood Picture Frame | Quote Art | Brass Clock | Reading Wall Sconce | DIY Pulley Light | Felt Baskets | Wire Hamper | Changing Pad | Triangle Shelf
Hopefully everyone who needed the extra time because of these crazy natural disasters has been able to finish up, it was so nice of Linda our host to extend the One Room Challenge for everyone.
Let's go check out all of the other
One Room Challenge reveal's shall we?
Getting one step ahead and falling behind has been the name of the game this week working on this nursery.
Read MoreWe're in the midst of painting the nursery for this fall's One Room Challenge, but while we work on that I thought it might be a good time to reveal our plans for the living room
Read MoreI fell in love with this painted green dresser before we knew if a little girl or boy was on the way many months ago.
Read MoreSince we couldn't get all of the yellow wallpaper down in the nursery yet, we are revealing the custom vintage car print we had made from an artist on Etsy!
Read MoreWe announced on Instagram a while ago what sex the new addition to the Kuc (Cook) family would be, but in the hustle and bustle of buying this big historic colonial, we never got to a blog post about it.
Read MoreIs it too soon to be thinking about helping folks out when trying to put their homes back together from the massive destruction of Harvey, probably , but I'm doing it...
Read MoreI recently go the opportunity to work with a wonderful family on a beautiful timeless kitchen design, something I haven't one for a bit.
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Follow along with our Giant adventures as we fix up this 1847 Historic Colonial in Western Massachusetts.
P.S. Expect lots of wallpaper removal and don’t say we didn’t warn you!
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