We all live in a yellow submarine!-Part 3 Add some color to your life

Today it is sunny!!  What better color for today then yellow?!?  Yellow is an easy color to decorate with, it is almost a neutral.  However, you can go too overboard with it.  It is more modern to pair it with white, black, or gray.  Choosing other colors, especially lighter pastellyier (new word) can make it feel more Easter than sleek.

Check out these kitchens:

Modern Kitchen

Love the Huge Cabinet Pulls

Kitchen

Dining Rooms:

Love the turquoise glasses!

Dining Room

Tolix chairs....swoon!!

Now on to the loo:

Cute bubbly mirrors!

Yellow clawfoot tub YUMMY!

Living Room

Living Room

Love gray and yellow together!

Bedrooms:

Super Cute

Bold Headboard

Make your life beautiful!
-Kari

Orange ya glad I didn't say banana?!- Part 2 Add some color to your life

Orange is a fabulous color!  I could never paint anything orange though....maybe a teen room if they wanted it!  It's too loud for me, I'm loud enough on my own!  I do think these people did a fantastic job using it!

Kitchens:

Kitchen

Kitchen @ Big Chill

I love the old school refrigerators and stoves!

Living Rooms:

Living Room

Living Room

Dining Room:

Fabulous Dining Room

Dining Room

Bathrooms:

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bedrooms:

Bedroom

OMG I love this room!!!!

Love the blanket!

I am thinking now that I may want to do something orange in my house!!  I love that bedroom with the hanging beds.  Not sure how functional it would be with kids.  I can only imagine them slamming them into the wall trying to get on them.  But, still they are fantastic!  I am thinking that I want Audrey out of our room....mommy's not sleeping very well.  This would mean Morgan and Hayley would have to share a room again for a little while.  Their rooms are huge and this wouldn't be a problem, but they have had a taste of having their own rooms (can I take that away?).  We'll see!!

Make your life beautiful!
-Kari

Seeing Red-Part 1 of Add Some Color to your Life

In honor of the gloomy nasty raining weather, I am kicking off an add some color to your life posts!  Because I am completely crazy about things being in rainbow order, we begin with red!!  For a long time, I wanted a red wall.  I painted one in our last house and I loved it during the holidays and hated it during the summer!  Red is a bold color to paint and it takes some stones to do so.  Not only is it a vibrant color, it takes multiple coats of paint and primer to get the color exactly like you like.  None the less, here are some FABULOUS red decor ideas.

Kitchens:

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

I love this idea and I will be making one of these this summer!!  Fresh Cut Flours made this for her granddaughter out of an old media console.  So so so cute!!!

Red Living Rooms:

Living Room

Living Room

Living Room

Red Dining Rooms:

Dining Room

Dining Room

Dining Room

Red Bathrooms:

Bathroom

Bathroom

I hope these pics have inspired you to add some color to your life!!  

Make your life beautiful!

-Kari

Just Beachy!! My tablescape and a few ideas for the entertainment center

I am so glad spring is close!  This week has been a trade off, one nice day, one cold day, one nice day,.....well, you get it!  So, every other day I'm outside doing projects :)  And I do have an endless supply of projects, just ask Mr. TSL!  One of the projects I plan to undertake is my entertainment center makeover.  My dad made my entertainment center for me when I graduated from high school....which was like (cough, cough) 11 years ago.  It is very sturdy and I go through waves of, I love it and waves of it's too freakin' big.  Right now, I am back on the love it side.  I have never really liked the color.  It's too orangy, because the stain.  It also doesn't feel as dramatic in the height, because it's so wide.  I am also having a hard time with the vignette on the top. I have a lot of things I like on top, but it feels too crowded.  I have seen some pics of this being pulled off beautifully, but I don't think I'm kicking that look.

Right now it looks like this:

I m not a fan of the stuff on the top.  At first, I just had stuff on the right side.  It looked similar to this one from Pottery Barn (I LOVE POTTERY BARN):

Here is a close-up of some of my stuff up there:

I was going for this look from Pottery Barn:

Or Layla from The Lettered Cottage

Did not succeed! I think my ceilings are too low in the living room to pull off a vignette like that one.  I also like this:

I could easily do that, but I don't know where I am going to put all that stuff....I'll find somewhere ;)

I am planning on building a shelf with more cubbies along the top like the one above and adding it to the existing entertainment center.  I could also just add a piece with crown moulding to make it look like this one:

I am also going to refinish this and the master bathroom vanity with the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation that I plan on doing the kitchen cabinets with.  You can read about that here.

Now on to something a little more beachy and polished looking.  Like I mentioned in a previous post I love the beach!  So, I made a little centerpiece inspired by spring and the beach.  It's on a mirror that I took off the bathroom door for the girls bathroom.  I like it because it's sparkly and reflects light from the chandelier!

I am linking up to:

Make your life beautiful!
-Kari