home reveal: part 6

so finally the nursery is finished! we've been slowly but surely working on it since we knew that Henry was going to be a Henry. so without further ado, here is the nursery reveal!

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we [aka jeff] removed the bizarre chair rail that was on 3 of the walls. we chose a nice rich sapphire blue color for the walls. we didn't have a theme for the nursery, mostly we just decorated based on the color scheme red, white, blue, and brown, and incorporated general animal/nature elements.

thank goodness for gliders, thats all i have to say!

we asked our friend sarah to take some pictures of gambel oak leaves so we could hang a picture of one up in Henry's room. she took a ton of awesome ones, and we picked the one seen above and had it printed on canvas. jeff stretched the canvas for us, and voila!

the changing table...aka jay-z's perching grounds haha

Henry has his own personalized teddy bear from mok and pok (josh's grandparents)! so adorable ♥

some of the other stuffed animals Henry has received. the one on the far right is a pig that was mine growing up that i had named Henry. told you i've always loved the name!

ikea dresser. the little giraffe on the floor was josh's growing up. the stuff on the dresser is from hobby lobby.

we got this pair of antlers from our friend ryan, painted them, and then had jeff mount them for us. i'm pleased with how they turned out :)

and there is the nursery! we're pretty pleased with how it turned out :)

home reveal: part 5

da da da daaaa! the master bedroom. we just finished it yesterday. without further ado, here are a billion pictures (sorry, i just took a lot of pictures, so...............if you dont like pictures just come back to my blog later?). and just a disclaimer...i'm not a professional photographer and i dont have a fancy camera that will make all my pictures look good, etc. so please dont judge my pictures, k thanks. ok. here goes:

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obviously the theme is purple. duh. and all the colors in the room were pulled from our bedspread (made by my mom)

the picture on the wall is actually a framed piece of ikea fabric. super easy, super cute, and unique (-ish, as long as all of you dont go out and copy me right now... i know its hard to resist because i am so awesome)

no picture of our bedroom is complete without a picture of kitty. he is in love with our bedroom, and is king of the castle. he's always in here. also, we just got this chair and he's obsessed with it.

pictures on our nightstands :) these little framed pictures are from our wedding reception

this is my self-made vanity. its really just a desk. its really hard to find an actual vanity in stores, and at ikea they only had a gray one (and all our furniture is black). so i got the desk, the mirror, and then 2 storage boxes to go underneath to hold all my hair/makeup crap.

josh got me this jewelry box for christmas, and i found the cat ring-holder in a shop in arizona.

works for me!

and here's an up-close of our curtains (ikea of course).

we just bought a plant for our room. and i took this picture to show the colors of the room. i'd say this picture shows the colors pretty true-to-color. just the wall behind the bed is the "accent" wall with the darker purple. its not super noticeable, but i like it that way.

theres our bedroom! the only update we might make is to get a matching bench for the end of the bed. almost our entire bedroom is ikea... so yeah, we might be obsessed. but its cute, so who cares, right? ;) we still have a lot to do around the house, but most of the bigger spaces have been tackled successfully! hip hip hooray!

home reveal: part 4

ok, i lied that the next one was going to be the master bedroom. i decided to do another small reveal tonight, just of the stairs. we only made a couple minor changes, but go ahead and take a look!

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josh stained the banister to match the mantle.

and paintings from ikea of course, just to spruce things up. eventually we might add some family pictures or something, but we'll see as we go along :)

ps: make sure you catch our bathroom reveals here

home reveal: part 3

bathrooms. not super exciting, but i need to build up the excitement for the master bedroom (probably revealed tomorrow).

master bathroom
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our themes for the master bedroom were purples and gray. nothing too fancy, but we like it :)

guest bathroom
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at first i didnt like the color of this bathroom. but then it started growing on me, and so we kept the color and worked around it. the 'theme' for the guest bathroom was kind of beachy, but not too overboard.

there are the bathrooms! do your bathroom(s) have any themes? up next will be the master bedroom! i hope you've been liking the home reveals!

home reveal: part 2

the kitchen!!

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in progress:

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we [aka jeff] took down the hood and put in a new microwave above the stove!
the walls are all the same gray as the rest of the main floor, with an accent wall of a charcoal-y color in the back. it's a cool color, because it can look like so many different colors. it's called "space" and i LOVE it!

we moved our zebra to be part of the dining room, which is a nice fit for it that we never would have thought of before (it was actually a family friend who was joking about animal print who even made us think of it!)

someday we might switch out the stools for real chairs, but we bought them when we were desperate and poor, and now we just havent found the perfect high kitchen chairs. if you see any cool reasonably priced ones, let us know!

i have all my chickens along the counterspace. eventually i might put them on top of the cabinets, but for now they are roosting [haha] on the countertops (theres more that arent in the picture). i love my little chickens :)

thats it for now! i'll continue to [slowly] keep updating you on our home reveal! do you like it? ♥

home reveal: part 1

the living room!!!

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we stained the mantle a dark mahogany
we [aka jeff] mounted our tv on the wall
(yes, the kardashians are on tv. haha)

if anything else, we might switch out the curtains on the back door. other than that, i think it's complete!! what do you think?