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This Week’s Finds

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Happy Sunday, dear friends! I hope you’ve had a joyous and relaxing weekend!  It’s been a busy one for us, with an interesting mix of work and play. We’ve had an overnight visit from a dear friend, and I’ve had the pleasure to prepare and observe our hard-working family room being used as a guest bedroom. I love sharing our house – be it sleepovers, dinner parties or visits from our (many) four-legged friends. Having friends over somehow, breaking the laws of physics, makes our tiny house feel larger, more useful, and certainly happier. Laughter and good times are design essentials.

A glimpse of the family room, with the last of this year’s anemones.

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Tips for Reupholstering an Ottoman

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Hi, friends! Do you remember that DIY project I was telling you about a couple of weeks ago? Well, I underestimated the amount of time it would take me to get it done, styled and shot (oops!) but it’s finally finished and I’m happy with the result, so I thought I’d share the process with you, in case you need some encouragement to do a little reupholstering of your own.


Current living situation: finds old and new, colors and patterns slowly making friends with each other, and a room that’s starting to look like home. See that new quilt on the sofa, barely making it into the pic? My favorite flea market find this month! 
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What to Do with an Ugly Chair? Or Two.

Have you ever had a piece of furniture you couldn’t stand looking at any longer? But still felt like throwing it /donating it/ gifting it was not an option? A family heirloom perhaps? Well, I have. And in fact still do. Our living room is cozy and comfortable but the seating options are far from glamorous, a hot mess really – a brand new Ikea Ektorp sofa, which I kind of like (bad design blogger, sorry!), made friends with two hideous but extremely comfortable brown Wayfair bargains and a pair of swivel English roll arm chairs, discards from a friend. I love the sofa and the swivels but the two brown Wayfair chairs have been my decorating nemesis this entire year. No matter now much I style our living room, no matter how many flower bouquets or pretty coffee table books, candles or knick-knacks I rotate, they stand out like eyesores. 

This is not as bad as the brown ones I got… mine SOLD OUT and are no longer available! 🙂
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