Kitchen Furniture

 My boys are on their second week of the new school year.  My oldest son, Liam is in 5th Grade and my youngest son, Jaxon is in 2nd Grade. And as their mom, its been a bit hard on me. I still remember sending them off to Kindergarten like it was yesterday.  It's wonderful to see them learn and grow, but it just feel like it all goes by so quickly, which I know every single mom can relate to. Am I right? So anyway, to give my boys a fresh start for the new school year, I gave their bedroom a bit of a makeover. The biggest change was that I debunked their bunk beds to give them each their own separate space.  And then I painted the beds, along with the armoire in the room a navy blue.  I plan to share a before and after of the beds with all of the paint details sometime later this week.  So if you are interested in seeing more of that then be sure to come back soon.  Painting the beds really made a world of difference. For a while there I was on a major ...

I was going through my files of photos and came across these ones of our master bathroom and I realized that I had never got around to sharing them with you.  So I thought I'd go ahead and post them today.  I think I have only shared this room once before, so chances are this may be your first time ever seeing it.    My husband and I dream about removing the bathtub and just have a large open shower in the room.   We never use this bathtub, probably because we have a hot tub outside that we use a lot to relax in. So Anyway, maybe one day we'll do some remodeling to our master bathroom. I have dreams of white subway tiles or something pretty and mosaic. But until then, I just work with what I have to create a soothing spa-like space. I've hung up these two hanging seashell chandeliers from the ceiling. I am in love with seashell chandeliers. I think they are so beautiful and I want to collect even more of them.  I picked this first one up at a souvenir shop ...

I have been busy working on fixing up our patio this summer and today I wanted to share some of the progress I have made to it so far.  So first, let me show you a before picture:  Other than the fact that our hot tub is up here, we hardly ever used this patio.  I realized one day that this wall here was probably the reason for that.  This wall is actually a built-in bench but because it acted as a wall, it really closed the patio area off from the rest of the back yard. The bench stuck out, was uninviting and unused and so I decided that it needed to go!  So board by board, screw by screw, nail by nail, bolt by bolt I removed it.  This thing was built so well that it took a lot of labor to remove it. And as you can see from this next picture, it had been a  home to many spiders and their nests.  Yuck. I was so happy to get rid of this thing. Once it was removed, you almost couldn't tell that there was once a bench there except for a missing deck ...

Guess What?  I won a giveaway! I was so excited, My Sweet Savannah was hosting a giveaway for $100 to spend at Stylish Rustic and I won! I could pick out almost anything I wanted from their online store, and I chose a new hammock for our patio and this cool green camp lantern. We already had the hammock base but we were in need of a new hammock because our old one got a rip in it.  I was thrilled to find that Stylish Rustic carried hammocks. This two person cotton one was just what I had been wanting.  I set it up on our patio because it gets a lot of shade here, making it the perfect spot for an afternoon nap.  To make this area even more cozy, I added a vintage Coleman sleeping bag and lots of pillows to the hammock.  I then added an outdoor rug and a side table so I could have a place to set down my drink. I really like the mixture of colors, patterns and textures that's going on here. I have been bringing outdoors a lot of my house plants, they all seem to...