Before and After: Laundry

Who says the laundry room should be boring? Not me! I went with a white washer/dryer set since I knew I wanted to paint the walls blue. Added the magenta rug to spice it up!

Before

After

Family Portraits May 2011

One of my favorite things in the house!

Before and after: Living Room

This room required help from Tami Teel. I found the Rand Wing back chairs at Ethan Allen and love them! Tami Teel helped with the drapery, mirror and cornel table.



Decor from previous home owners



Before we ordered furniture, we brought in our patio furniture to play with different arrangements. This helped us decide we definately didnt want a full size couch.

Guest room near complete!

Finally added some finishing touches to the "beige" guest room yesterday: new lamps and side table from Home Goods. Bedding / art is from Target. Also snagged some profile portraits from my mom, done by my grandfather in 1955!

Before and After: Dinning Room

Greetings! We've been in our house for a little over a year now and I thought it would be fun to post some "before and after" pictures of the interior! So let's start with the formal dining area. I considered this space difficult since it is an open area to the formal sitting area.

Here is a picture of when we first moved in: red-ish orange accent wall, small black chandelier

The red/orange paint was the first to go. Originally I painted the wall beige, but currently I am living with a rose wall. Hubby isnt crazy about it. So we will see how long it lasts. Also replaced the chandelier with the Currey and Company Crystal Lights Large Gold Chandelier. Table is from a local shop, and chairs are Martine Collection from Restoration.

I painted the old chandelier, added crystals and lamp shades, and dropped into our entry way. Much better fit here!

We also purchased a fabulous bar from Pottery barn!

Holidays

Make a Smilebox greeting

England Photobook!

Had a fantastic time with Cori and her Mom in the UK! Swindon was lovely. Everyone was so polite and the city is so cute! London took me a little by surprised ~ pretty clean city and very metropolitan ;) I loved it! Special thanks to Cori for being a great host.

Click here to view this photo book larger

To see all 500 pictures from Cori, her mom, and my camera: check out http://picasaweb.google.com/raechel.frick/England#

Summer

Holy cow summer is FLYING by! We are having a great time with Frank and Lucy, our new puppies ~ including experiencing new dog friendly spots in Raleigh. It does make me very sad that we cannot easily travel with them and cannot introduce them to everyone! So come visit NC :)

This weekend is great so far... lots of relaxing, beer drinking, ran in the park this morning (Dave = 9 miles, Rae = 5 miles) , then ran around the local park with the dogs. Weather is hot, but not nearly as humid as last summer (thank goodness!)

We did try to see The Time Travelers Wife last night, but it was SOLD OUT! :( We will try again on the 18th in celebration of 4 months married life.

Hope everyone is having a great summer. :) xoxox

PS: I added a calendar to the bottom of our blog