Dress your Shelves

The cold weather is compelling me to stay indoors and continue my post holiday re-arranging of my house (specifically the accessories). Today I am focusing on my bookshelves. Making bookshelves look balanced and beautiful can be a challenge but with a few simple rules of thumb it can be done fairly easily.

Shop through your home for nice looking hardback books (not paperbacks or phone books) ha ha! Also, look for framed photos, sentimental keepsakes, a pretty plate or tray, maybe a small lamp and a small dried floral arrangement. After gathering your goodies, clear the shelves completely. If your shelves are adjustable this is the time to adjust them to accommodate varying heights of books, etc. Starting with the top shelf I use a zig zag method to decorate. By this I mean balancing the weight of the books/accessories on one shelf heavy on the left then on the next shelf heavy on the right and so on. Experiment with placing the books upright and stacking horizontal. Arranging bookshelves is an art ~ just use your imagination and try, try again!

It's that time of year, Christmas is over and all the decorations are down....well, hopefully they are by now! Have you experienced it yet? That feeling that your house looks blah and empty? I have this feeling every year! All the nooks and crannies that had something cute are now empty and dull. For example, a cute little berry wreath that was on my pantry door for the holidays is now gone and the doors looks bare. I really didn't want to replace it with another wreath so I found this super cute panel at Pier One. The fork is actually a chalk board that I can post our dinner menu for Bobby! Tonight we are having......Pei Wei !

Bathroom Update

For the past few months Bobby and I have been working our way through the house room by room doing a little updating. We have been here for 17 yrs. and the house is now 20 years old so it's time!

I love pretty bathrooms therefore our master bath was a recent target for the paintbrush. We had the walls and cabinets painted and glazed. I added a few new accessories and a new vanity chair..... voila ~ we now have a beautiful sanctuary with minimal cost! The wall color is Valspar, Woodlawn Blue Angel and the cabinet base color is Sherwin Williams, Hopsack. We used a dark brown glaze over the cabinets. The transformation is amazing.....love it!