Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Living Room E-Design Board
Remember when I helped Christine with her bedroom? Well she recently contacted me to help her with her Living Room. She already had the rug picked out so I tried to go off of that. This room was very budget friendly. All the pillows come from Etsy and most of the furniture is from Wal-mart.
One of my favorite parts of the room are these great bird prints.
They are only $8.99 each at art.com.
Ruby Lane
Please help me welcome my newest sponsor, Ruby Lane. Ruby Lane offers thousands of independent stores selling antiques & art, vintage collectibles and jewelry items from around the world!
Whether you're looking for shabby chic items, carnival glass, vintage jewelry, japanese china or antique dolls, they make the process simple. For those buyers who are new to the process, their simple search, shopping and purchase features make it easy and convenient to buy. "
Whether you're looking for shabby chic items, carnival glass, vintage jewelry, japanese china or antique dolls, they make the process simple. For those buyers who are new to the process, their simple search, shopping and purchase features make it easy and convenient to buy. "
I really love this 18th century watercolor painting. It's so serene.
There are seriously so many items to browse through. Check out the items for yourself here.
The Pink Pagoda + Discount Code
I'm so happy to introduce my newest sponsor The Pink Pagoda! The Pink Pagoda is full of beautiful and dreamy chinoiserie style prints saturated in color.
Not only are there prints available but canvases as well. You can choose from a variety of styles, sizes and colors.
These would be so perfect in any room in my house and I can picture them perfectly in a nursery or girls room. So cute!
For the next week you can use the code 6THSTREETDESIGN20OFF to get 20% off!
Check out The Pink Pagoda to see more great products.
Custom Toy Portrait
My son Jett has a little stuffed dog that he adores. He calls it his "pup-pup" and he can't sleep without it.
When I came across Jennifer Maher's work I knew I needed to commission her to paint this little guy. Jennifer does custom toy portraits and her work is incredible.
Here is the painting she sent me of "pup-pup"
Isn't it precious!
Here they are side-by-side for comparison. I love that no matter what happens to "pup-pup" we'll always have this painting to remember him. It will be a lifelong treasure of ours.
Contact Jennifer to have her create a custom painting of your child's favorite toy. These would make the perfect gift for a birthday party or christmas!
Plum Street Prints
I ordered a few prints from Plum Street Prints and I just love them! This temple print is perfect for Jett's room.
I also thought this Salt Lake Neighborhood map was cute.
Plum Street has a great selection of fun prints. Check them all out here.
Etsy Artwork on Studio 5
Here is my segment from today! Thanks so much to all these great shops for letting me display their artwork.
Here are the shops that were featured on the segment.
Cocoa and Hearts
Did you have a chance to check out Jen Ramos' home in the newest issue of Adore Magazine? It's so beautiful. Light, bright and colorful!
Jen is also a talented artist.
I love love love her new art line, Cocoa and Hearts. Any one of her pieces would fit seamlessly into my home.
all photography and artwork by Jen Ramos
Sugar Fresh
Please help me welcome my newest sponsor Sugar Fresh! I am so very excited to have this amazing shop advertise on my blog. I am in love with all of these amazing prints. They are fresh, bright, crisp and well designed. The perfect addition to a nursery, kids room, office or wherever these prints will make you smile every time you look at them.
These prints can be customized with a wide variety of colors so that they will fit perfectly in your home.
Check out the shop to see all the prints available!
Check out the shop to see all the prints available!
Etsy Watercolor Roundup
Few things make me happier than a beautiful watercolor paining. I love the serenity it brings to a space. Here are a few of my favorites found on etsy.
$500 Room Makeover
As you know I've been working on my mom's guest room. Currently this is the "junk" room where all the leftover furniture gets dumped. And also where my brother sleeps. Hence the mess.
My mom only gave me $500 for the budget of this room so I had to use a lot of what we already had
Here is the after!
This room is huge and it was important to split it into three designated areas.
For the bedding I kept the original bedding but I flipped the comforter over so only the solid side was showing and I folded it at the end of the bed.
The floral pillows were made by me to cut cost and they were made with the inspiration fabric for the whole room. The fabric was $5.99 a yard at Home Fabrics.
I used this fabric to make the lumbar.
I had Erin sew this one because I really wanted piping and I didn't want to attempt doing it myself.
You can read more about the art above the bed here.
The nightstand was my mom's old nightstand that I just painted.
Here it is before.
I painted it black and added a knob from Hobby Lobby.
The gold lamp was $6 at a thrift store and I already had the shade sitting around in my basement. The items on the nightstand were also items I already had around my house. So I didn't have to spend any money on them!
There are three windows in this room that needed roman shades.
Roman shades can be very pricey and 3 roman shades for a room with a small budget is not easy to do. So I found 3 plain white shades at Down East for $20 each. I then glued a strip of velvet fabric to the edges of the shade to give them more of a custom feel. The zebra pillow was sewn by me and the fabric was $3 a yard at Home Fabrics.
On to the desk area....
This was a desk that was already in the room. The chair was also already in her home. I just painted it black and reupholstered the seat myself with some cream fabric.
The bulletin board was such a fun project and I loved how it turned out. You can read more about it here. The lamp was a great deal. You can read about it here.
The green sofas were the biggest challenge in the room. They are NOT at all cute. So I did what everyone should do with less-than-pretty sofas they can't get rid of. I covered them with pillows!
I made most of these pillows myself with fabric from Home Fabrics.
I am not an expert at sewing pillows and under normal circumstances with a normal budget I would hire it out. I sewed about 8 pillows total for this room.
Our seating area needed a rug but rugs can be pricey. So I made a good ole' chevron rug. I didn't really use any tutorials although there are plenty of them out there.
I bought the rug at Ikea for $30.
The small coffee table is also from Ikea and it was only $20.
You can read about the art above the sofa here. The frames were frames we already had.
The pink pillows were made by Erin awhile ago for my bedroom. I thought they worked perfectly in this room. And the brown damask print was bought at Home Fabrics for $3 a yard but you can also buy it here.
So there you have it!
A room makeover for around $500.
And now for a moment I want to get on my soap box about budget. I will admit there are many things about this room that I love. I love how tight budgets make you think outside the box and get really creative. I love how I was able to come up with cheap solutions for things that we really needed in the room.
However, if you are going to do a room on a tight budget you need to be prepared to do A LOT of the work yourself. Sewing, painting, art work, rugs, re-upholstering. I spent hours and hours of just labor time on this room. You also need to realize that things are not going to be great quality. Things like the coffee table, rug, roman shades and paint jobs may look fine on camera but up-close they are not going to be "perfect". These are just things to keep in mind if you have a tight budget.
It's definitely do-able! But, not always easy.
Guest Room Budget Art
My mom's budget guest bedroom makeover continues!
I have seen pages from this book used before as art and I thought some pretty botanicals would be the perfect thing to hang over the bed.
This botanicals book is truly stunning. It was hard to pick which pictures to use because they were all so pretty!
I finally decided on these three for over the bed.
I am going to use these somewhere else in the room.
The cute bee happy print was free!
The last piece of art going in the room is this bird print. It's actually wrapping paper. You can't beat the price. $4.50!
It's all coming together...
For the walls: bright + bold
Especially after the beautiful kilim rug from Joost's dining room yesterday, I've been thinking that the perfect remedy for grey autumn skies may be a warm, brightly coloured home. I can never resist all white, but I can't deny that there's just something so happy and energetic about a colourful space. Vibrant, happy art may just be the perfect way to incorporate colours into your decor for those who are a little afraid of a big commitment to a strong colour.
An airy loft looks warm and inviting with colourful art and warm wood. This rich-hued, rustic dining table just seems to invite long dinners with delicious food, friends and wine.>
Sara Story is never one to shy away from colour, this bold crimson headboard in her bedroom, paired with this bright bold art, brings it to life and adds an extra 'pop'.{Photos:Unknown from ApartmentTherapy, Sara Story's home from Domino}
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