Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIY. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

My Favorite Clippings from October Coastal Living

So, I discussed earlier this week some of the inspirations for my own home exterior face lift via the Coastal Living edition for October.  Well, the images are finally up on their website for some of my favorites and so I will share them with you as well as my home's redressing in progress.....

The turquoise doors and shutters are painted....the mailbox and art have been sprayed white and I am waiting on a new house number display to take down the old ones as well as a few other ideas up my sleeve including outdoor furniture of some sort!  I can't wait to share the DIY in process for the paint and spray paint projects and those will be coming shortly.

For now here are some of my favorite inspirations from Coastal Living in October!

Here they have a door very similar in color to my new door--except a little more green in the turquoise...and that great starfish wreath I wrote about in the earlier post!
Color Transformation
image from Coastal Living

Here are some beachy and bohemian style accessories to wear in front of your well-appointed, light and bright home:
Tory Burch Thora Flat Thong Sandal
image from Coastal Living and earrings from shopbop.com

Moschino Cheap and Chic
image from Coastal Living and Kaftan via theoutnet.com 

And here are some great sneak peeks into Coastal Living's Ultimate Beach House 2011 and it is gorgeous!  Here are some of my favorite views:

A simple, airy, and seafoam flecked front porch...
2011 Ultimate Beach House Porch
image from Coastal Living


I am in love with the paddle mirror!....
2011 Coastal Living Ultimate Beach House Dining Room
image via Coastal Living

I also love this bright kitchen with flip flops and a great seating bench nook (something I am hoping to DIY in something similar soon)...and I am drooling over the upholstery on those chairs...
2011 Ultimate Beach House Breakfast Nook
image via Coastal Living

A great guest bedroom but I would love it as my master with that fabric headboard, valances with a wonderful moorish shape, footstools, and antlers, not to mention the rug...the colors are crisp and subtle enough as to not overwhelm but there is plenty of yumminess going on here...
2011 Ultimate Beach House Guest Bedroom
image from Coastal Living

oh and ps: 
I am loving my new pillow from One Kings Lane!  My chair, or rather my husband's recliner, still needs some work in terms of it's dressing but this pillow is doing wonders for my love of it :).  I will talk more on the origins of my mohair love (last month) and the apartment therapy house tour that brought it on!



















From me, my pillow, and my sniffly cold...a good night to you :)!

Monday, September 26, 2011

A Seashell Mirror & Some Inspirations

I have decided to take the bathroom mirror and make my own seashell mirror on the surround.  It is just a pane of glass on a piece of white wood right now and it was adhered crooked, which drives me crazy.  So, rather than replace the whole thing I figured I would take the usable beginnings and make myself a seashell mirror by glueing seashells and sea objects in neutral tones to the wood and mirror that exists.

Here is what it looks like now...


And here are some of my inspirations for the project...
White Seashell Mirror by beachgrasscottage

image from country living

image from phoebe howard & completely coastal

I especially love this new DIY mirror that Phoebe Howard has attempted.  I love a good DIY tutorial and it definitely has given my own mirror project new momentum.
round shell mirror
image from Completely Coastal
See Phoebe's full tutorial HERE.

Besides the exterior house redo in motion this shell mirror project is next on my to-do list!
I am looking forward to this project but a bit intimidated as I know my own OCD for shape and symmetry and I know once glued it will always be glued :).

Any upcoming DIY's for anyone else?