Guest Suite

In our new house I was so excited that it has a Guest Suite, and I have to say the owners of the house did a great job laying out the floor plan. You see, our house has an addition off the back of it. The addition includes the Family Room, a Guest Bedroom and a Guest Bathroom. We love this part of the house and spend a lot of time there.

Here is what it looks like on plan.

Fireplace - we love that it has a corner fireplace, but honestly it surprises me that they included it. You enter the Family Room off of the Living Room which also has a fireplace so I am surprised they put one in here as well, but we are very happy that they did.

Patio - The double doors off of the family room go to our patio which is covered and was also part of the addition. We spend so much time out here in the summer and it is a perfect place to grill, relax, and the girls to ride their bikes.

Storage Space - They were able to include a closet in the bedroom and a linen closet. I have never had a linen closet before and I absolutely love having it, especially to stock up on guest essentials!

Layout - Have I mentioned I love the layout?!?! All the rooms are the perfect size, not too big and not too small. They also included a huge window in the back of the Family Room and Cathedral ceilings. I could obviously go on and on. 

Well, now that the Family Room is done, I am ready to tackle the Guest Suite.

Here is what it looks like now.

I still really like the bedding in this room and I am not planning on changing it.

I just bought the lamp and nightstand accessories, so those are staying as well.

so here is how the To Do list for this room looks.

Guest Bedroom

Project List:

• Upholstered Headboard

• Paint Ceiling White

• Paint Walls - PPG Atrium White (focal wall behind bed?)

• Wall Decor

• Doors or a curtain on closet?

• Change out ceiling fan?

I am envisioning the headboard to be upholstered in a black and white fabric, something like this.

or this...

I think if I did a focal wall it would look like this.

or I have toyed with the idea of pineapples:)

and as for a light fixture I would definitely go white and I have been dying to use this one, but honestly it may not make it into the budget.

I wont even get into the guest bathroom on this post because thats a whole nother post for a whole nother day:)

but i do have a sneak peek!

YAY!

this happened....the ceiling was all sorts of shades of yellow and blue before so the white is SUPER refreshing.

Saunders' Baby Shower

Meet Amy Lau

As I was thumbing through my icon magazine today (a magazine tailored for Interior Designers who are members of ASID) I came across the designer Amy Lau.  I dug a little further only to discover her unique design style, which some may consider "over-the-top", but given her history I think Amy has a Miami flair mixed with Mid-century Modernism.  It is actually quite catching and definitely a peice of art!

This console is so awesome and she has such a unique eye for lighting.

Hello amazing tables and wooden sculpture!

How did she think of this?  hmmm Let's recess a wine cabinet and then put the TO DIE FOR hand-carved sculptural doors on it!  Oh and we will line the doors with wallpaper, BRILLIANT!

Again with the lighting!

This staircase alone would have been magnificent but these walls, OH these walls.

This design is wonderful but the mirror(bottom left) and chairs(bottom right) are simply amazing.

 

My Wedding Photos by Photographer KT Moon, Fidamo USA

Here are some photos of my wedding that took place last fall, October 3, 2009.  I am so lucky to have such a wonderful friend who is an ABSOLUTELY AMAZING photographer, Miss KT Moon of Fidamo.  Mike and I definitely had what you would refer to as a "budget wedding" and a DIY wedding.  Hopefully photos of our day will show you that you can DIY too and maybe you will be a little inspired!

Our vintage peacock theme wedding.

Flowers by Valeri Nicole

DIY Reserved Seat Signs

DIY decorative cones with bird seed

DIY Wedding Arch

Thanks to my handy Dad, he cut down a tree in his woods about a week before the wedding and crafted this beautiful arch.  We dug holes into the ground and in she went.  The morning of the wedding, my friends and I weaved flowers and ivy all over it and then draped it with fabric, all together we made this arch for under $200 and it was breathtaking!

Me and my Dad:)

Ohhh THE DRESS.  I bought my dress at Demetrios but I did not want to have the same dress as somoeone else and could not afford a custom dress, so thanks to Penny (the mother of my bridesmaid Lindsey) it became one of a kind!  I found a fabric that matched the dress and Penny made several roses of different sizes by hand.  Lindsey, Penny and I had a sewing party and on the dress they went!  It could not have turned out any better!  Thanks Penny.

I found my beautiful cake topper on Etsy, oh I love that site.  Thank you Krishna for creating exactly what I wanted.

The cake was made by my Aunt, Red Velvet (mike's Favorite) with fondant icing(my favorite).  She saved us some major money on this one and created the perfect cake and it was delicious too!

DIY Wedding Favors.  I ordered the boxes from Paper-Source, BEWARE, you will become addicted to this site.  2 of my bridesmaids and I assembled the boxes and wrapped them with ribbon.  I printed the labels at home, filled the boxes with a sweet treat and WAH-LA a beautiful guest favor!

DIY Food Trays.  I bought foam core at Hobby Lobby cut it to size, wrapped it with leftover wallpaper samples and it was stunning.

DIY Wedding Invitations.  I created completely custom Wedding Invitations and my husband and I went to work; printing, cutting, rounding edges and tying ribbons:)

We were so blessed with an AMAZING sunset at our wedding, it could not have been more perfect.

DIY Wedding Programs.  I created custom programs for our wedding, the envelopes were again from Paper-Source and we embossed a gold label with our last initial and sealed it with a peacock feather.  Repeating our Peacock wedding theme.

All of the girls wore head peices with peacocks in them, some of us made them ourselves, while others bought them.  Sarah handcrafted this one herself!

My hair, courtesy of Tiffany at A-do.  I DARE you to find a bobby pin in this work of art.

DIY Escort Cards and Peacock Guest Book Pen.  Both FOR SALE at my etsy store!

We did not do the traditional, see eachother for the first time at the ceremony thing, so this was our way and it turned out perfect.  Thank you KT, another wonderful idea from our photographer!