I have been so thrilled with the level of customization we got to do in our new home. From the built-ins in our game room to the shoe closet, to making our kitchen island larger and bringing cabinets to the ceiling, we truly got to create a home we love.Now that we have lived in our home for six months (!!!), I thought it would be fun to ...
interiors
Our New Curtains
We had curtains installed in our bedrooms yesterday and I'm delighted with how they turned out!Our home has 9ft ceilings throughout the upstairs, so we went with 108 inch curtains and had the hardware hung as close to the ceiling as possible, which was easier to do since we don't have crown moulding. By the way, there is a blog post all about ...
Design At Home: All About Rugs with Oyster Creek Studios
Happy Monday! Today's post is a highly requested one for our Design at Home series: all about rugs! Aryn Guillory, interior designer and founder of her design firm, Oyster Creek Studios, is going to tell us all about how to pick the right rug for your space.I love rugs so much and now that our entire home is hardwood, we're ...
Design at Home: All About Draperies & Window Treatments with Oyster Creek Studios
Today, Aryn Guillory, interior designer and founder of her design firm, Oyster Creek Studios, is sharing all things window treatments as part of our Design at Home series.Window treatments are definitely something I had to do a lot of research about before I figured out what I love. In our last home, we did off white roman shades (which I ...
Design At Home: How to Hang Mirrors & Art with Oyster Creek Studios
Mirrors and art are one of my favorite ways to enhance our home. I love adding color through art and mirrors can really anchor a piece of furniture and reflect light into your space.One thing I've learned via years of reading design blogs is that there are right and wrong ways to hang art and mirrors (and even TVs!) and that most people make ...
Friday Five
I hope you've had a good week! I've been having some sleep issues but other than that the week has been ok. I'm consistently waking up between 3-4 a.m. and also dreaming a lot, which is usually a sign that I'm stressed. I mean, who isn't stressed right now? There is so much uncertainty, no answers on when things might return to normal, fear, etc. ...
Samsung Frame TV Review
In our last home (see our third home house tour here), we purchased a new 50-inch TV because our living room was smaller and we didn’t want a massive screen when the sofa was so close to the wall. We hung art around it to give the space more personality and add pops of color to our overall neutral space.Here are some photos from our previous ...
Design at Home: How to Make + Style Your Bed with Oyster Creek Studios
I had the joy of hiring Aryn to help finish our master bedroom in our third home and I loved the design so much, I replicated the room when we moved (we did have to change the light fixture because the one in our previous home would have been too large for our current bedroom since we don't have a coffered ceiling).Here's a peek of our ...
Pros and Cons of Open Concept Homes
Ever since I moved to Houston over a decade ago, we’ve always lived in homes with an open-concept floor plan. Newer builds in particular tend to have floor plans where the kitchen, living room and dining room all share one open space. I recently saw that one of my favorite designers, Shea McGee of Studio McGee opted not to have a formal dining room ...
Design at Home: How to Style Your Coffee Table with Aryn Guillory of Oyster Creek Studios
It's week two of our Design at Home series and this week Aryn Guillory, interior designer and founder of her design firm, Oyster Creek Studios is sharing how to style your coffee table! Whether your table is round square or rectangular - she's got you covered. We didn't have a coffee table in the living room of our home ...