Yummy Floors

Holli and I both had busy, busy weekends! We are getting back to schedule though and soon you'll have so many posts you just won't know what to do!

Until then, drool over these beautiful flooring pictures.

Enjoy!



All pictures can be found repinned on the #hgtv board here.

- Tyler Anne (aka Chick Tyler)

Color Love

A few years back I had a set color palatte (all blues) that I only wanted to decorate with and that was it. You couldn't sway me to branch out. After getting my design degree though, I've gone from color-closed-minded to I LOVE EVERYTHING!

After finding Redesign Revolution's Pinterest, I got weak in the knees over four different rooms with four different color schemes!

Enjoy!

Color Crush: Yellow Belly

I have been SO busy during these past few days. Holidays, family, traveling, work...you name it, I've been doing it. This has left my blogging schedule hectic, but now it's GO time!

Here's me crushing hard on yellow...again.

Which is your favorite?

BONUS!

What picture inspires you the most?

Project Teaser

I am working on a post that involves living room fun, mini DIY projects, and recycling common household items! Basically, inexpensive ways to be happier with your living space.

So here's a sneak peek until tomorrow! Get excited!

Unique Home Décor

I love color and I love unique. So when I visit Dude's parents I just can't help but love their home decorations and become inspired! Here are some of my favorite things to look at when I'm at their house!

(By the way, I painted that picture. I wanted it included because I just happen to also love it! Does that mean I'm egotistical?)

What inspires you?

Enjoy!

 

Inspiration: Yellow and Gray

I am currently digging yellow and gray for living spaces!

Can you blame me?

Enjoy!

Inspiration: Light Fixtures

My tiny apartment has no overhead lighting. I miss that in a home.
So when I see these beautiful spaces in various posts over at Design Attractor, I just get inspired. Plus, it makes me look forward to a future with overhead lighting and creative fixtures!

Enjoy!

All images were found on various blog posts on Design Attractor. Almost There does not own any of them! 

Yay or Nay with Wall Décor

What I like about Design World's new blog (here) is that they have a weekly featured called "Yay or Nay." They post different decorating ideas that are trending and ask their audience yay or nay. Very simple, very effective.

The past two weeks had two blog posts that really interested me. Last week's post (Yay or Nay: Picture Frame Decorating) and this week's post (Yay or Nay: Plate Decorating) are about decorating the walls with unique accessories.

Now I want to go ahead and say YAY for both of these but only if you do it right.

Things that work for me: 

• Same color frames but in difference sizes. 
• Mismatched frames that are variations of one specific color.
• Crowding frames but with the same amount of space between each frame so it doesn't look cluttered. 

Things that don't work for me:

• I'm not a big fan of making an overall shape with the frames (like a heart). I don't think it's tacky by any means, it's just not my style.
• Every frame being a different color. This makes it way too busy for me.

Things that work for me: 

• I love, love, love having every plate unique. Unlike the picture frames, for some reason I can handle all different colors and styles with plates.
• I'm a big fan of the flow placement. It doesn't have to be boxy overall and the space between each plate can vary.

Things that don't work for me:

• I'm not a fan of having plates on shelves. I think I just prefer seeing them on the wall as wall art.
• Not a fan of plate layering.

Even though there are things I don't like about each style, I still very much dig them. I'm probably a bigger fan of plate decorating, especially if you find really unique ones from vintage stores/thrift shops.

So, how do you stand? 

Picture framing decorating...yay or nay? 

Plate decorating...yay or nay? 

All pictures can be found on Pinterest. I made the picture collages for Design World's blog posts. 

Unique Decoration

I think this is beautiful and kind of a neat/inexpensive decoration.

Image found here

Exciting Update!

So early I posted that I had fun news I wanted to share. That's definitely still true but the long, amazing post where I explain everything in detail went out the window when I started getting sick! Who gets a cold out of nowhere? Me. Who gets knocked on their backsides from said cold? Me, of course.

Instead of blowing your mind with a long explanation, I'm just going to make the tinniest of lists.

Exciting things:

1. I've been hired to style a home office and garage in the next few months. Research mode has begun! I will update the blog with the mood board, color swatches and sketches I come up with as well as pictures of progress.

2. My dear friend Holli (see her wonderful site here) just got engaged! (Insert my wild squealing here!) She asked if I would like to help her decorate the event and I could not be more thrilled! So for the next several months my new Pinterest board Holli is my homegirl and this blog will be blowing up with DIY wedding decorations along with inspiring pictures and ideas!

3. I have been working on new designs (including web) for Almost There. I will have an official launch in the near future!

4. My lease is up in December! So let the apartment/house hunting begin!

These are the things that will be keeping me awake and going strong for the next few months. If I go one day and post like crazy then you know why. The same with if I skip a day!

I'll keep you updated!

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Color Crush: Yellow & Pink

I used to DESPISE the color pink. I avoided it and loved blue instead (which is still my favorite color). However, I can't help starting to like it. Now, on top of this new development, I can't get away from loving on the coupling of yellow and pink!

So here's my current color crush!

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Crush Thursday #1

It may be strange but I've always been a fan of Thursday. It's a step away from the start of the weekend and far enough away from Monday that most people are in a good mood. So why not do Crush Thursday?

Every Thursday I will pick four items/styles whether they be fashion or interiors that I love but can't exactly afford. Things I have a crush on! 

Because, let's be real, half of the crushes we have are the unobtainable kind! (Though I'm still holding out for Ian Somerhalder!)

So enjoy this Crush Thursday: Serena and Lily!

Shop Serena and Lily

1.) Punch Wall Paint: here 2.) Seagrass Basket: here 3.) Bark Jaipur Pillow Cover: here 4.) Custom Upholstered Belgian Chair: here

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Color Crush: Blue Peacock

Plan of Attack: Living Room Shame

Why I thought  I was going to be able to do a little drilling and hammering and making CCD No. 1 (what is a CCD?) dissapear is beyond me. When I told Dude what I was going to do he promptly told me that today was Football. I would not be drilling or hammering. I would not be a distraction. I would not touch the TV. Living in the South, that start of football is sacred.

So instead I brainstormed, drew a very rough sketch and Pinterested my little heart out.

I decided to tackle the living room first if only because we entertain a lot. My office is more or less off limits unless someone stays over and uses my futon. So I stood and looked at the living room's CCD and decided I wanted to tackle our two plastic bins of movies and video games first.

Once the DVDs are taken out of the long bin on the right and the short one under Milo's bag of yarn, we would have two empty containers for the storage room!

Now, the above picture is what I am going to ATTEMPT to do with all of these DVDs. If you looked up DVD storage in Pinterest (because that's where I always go first) you will find awesome ideas and products...that are way out of my price range. After driving that route for a while, I hit a dead end then searched book storage instead.

That's when I found this:

Easy, inexpensive and effective. Not to mention, once the DVD boxes are all stacked amongst the four different areas I drew above, it will bring an interesting look to the living room. From the couch we will be able to search through all of the movies without moving. Once we pick one, we won't have to move odds and ends out of the way or bend over until we find the one we are looking to watch. (We're not lazy I promise!)

However, I'm concerned about the space above the right side of the TV. It's not as wide (it leads into the hallway) so visually it would be awkward. That space needs to have some kind of (preferably)  functional decoration. I would also like to hang a piece of art above the TV. I'm thinking mirror to open up the small room. 

This project is my goal for tomorrow. It won't completely destroy the living room's CCD but it will weaken it considerably. 

We'll just have to see how it goes!

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Confounding Corners of Doom

I am the QUEEN of clutter. You think your tiny space has a lot going on? Probably can't compare to mine. Over the years I've squashed most of my pack rat urges but there are just some things I can't quite let go of. So I put random trinkets in plastic tubs, boxes or just let them roam freely throughout the apartment. A part of me is deeply ashamed at my lack of will power but some tendencies are too hard to let go of sometimes! (It also doesn't help that I live with Dude who doesn't believe in organization or, for the matter, laundry baskets.)

I probably could have continued to live my life as the Ruler of Unnecessary Clutter but since I work from home, I get a 24/7 view of messy clutter and I just can't take it anymore!

So, with one of the MANY To Do lists I've acquired, I've decided to tackle the confounding corners of doom that reside in my apartment. For all of you out there who live in tiny spaces but have a lot of things (whether unnecessary or not) you may have one or two of these.

What are CCDs?

Mantel Love: Your Living Room's Thesis Statement

Do you have a mantel that makes you ashamed? Does it have so much potential that you know you've missed? Are there random knick knacks that you just threw up there because--let's be honest--there isn't anywhere else to put the bronze skull statue your significant other bought at a garage sale or that Beanie Baby that lost its tag when you were 12?

To me, the mantel is like your living room's thesis statement--this is who I am, this is what I love.

There are so many statements you can make that it's easy to get gun shy. You dig the fam jam, are totally utilitarian, have a wicked color addiction or dance to the own beat of your drum. Which will it be? And once you have a theme, will you be able to pull it off?

Well I may not have a fireplace/mantle but I have a lot of ideas of what I want to do with one when I have it. Here's a compilation of ideas and pictures taken (and linked back to) other blogs and Pinteresters plus a few ideas of my own!

Honey & Fitz (a blog definitely worth a follow) posted an article that inspired my love of the mantel I don't-yet-have. In this post they had a picture that showed the flow of a nicely decorated mantel for those needing a creative boost.

Normally I try to come up with my own decorating rules (because my momma raised me stubborn) but what Honey & Fitz did (and Steven and Chris before them) really pleases me. Visually it's pleasant and has a lot of potential.

So here are five easy ways to make a visual triangle out of your lovely mantel décor plus some great Pinterest finds to make my imaginary mantel aesthetically-pleasing.

1.) Center a large piece on your mantel.

You can go either art or mirror. I love the look that a unique mirror can bring to a room but for a mantel I would have to go with art. So, in my quest to decorate MY future mantel, I picked Artist Yuka Nareta's Focus. This watercolor appreciates my love for whites space, color and inspirational quotes.

2.) Add something with movement to the left. You want your eye to visually flow from one direction to the other.

This is where I go in search of fun knick knacks that are a part of a collection and of varying sizes. How about those trendy owls? You just can't go wrong with owls--no matter their color, size or medium. Place the shortest one on the outside and line them up to the tallest.

3.) Add something with visual weight on the right. This will counterbalance the movement element on the left.

This is where that great vase you have tucked away in a cabinet or lonely on top of the refrigerator comes into play. Bold, beautiful color or wacky design would definitely make a statement. I personally want a vase that, even if there aren't beautiful flowers in it, can still make a statement. So I mustache you, why not a vase with facial hair?

4.) Layer in a couple of additional frames pieces in a cluster.

This is when I would bring out the funky colored frames of different sizes and designs and fill them with silly pictures of loved ones.

5.) Balance that on the opposite side with a couple of accessories in a cluster of varying heights.

Books, books, books! If you're a book lover then you have plenty of them around. Do you have a few special editions that are just adorable? Use them! Take a few books and stack them up to the right of your mantel. Get a few more little knick knacks that don't necessarily come from the same collection and place them on top of those lovely books!

These are the five steps to make a great-looking mantel. To tell your guests that YOU ARE AWESOME and so is your house! If you're like me and don't have a fire place or a mantel yet, don't fret! You can still design one and dream!

Remember, we may not have our dream house yet, but we're almost there!

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