Making a House Our Home

Whew! What a busy weekend we had.

We decided to close-up the Miller Dance Studio (but it was fun while it lasted!) and get new couches. I'm pretty much exactly like that book "When You Give a Mouse a Cookie" when it comes to home furnishings.

It started when I got some new picture ledges at Ikea while we were in California, seems simple enough.. throw some shelves up on the wall. Well.... I liked the ledges so much, it made me realize I may need a new couch. Then I got a new couch which made me realize I needed a new rug (for my birthday, of course) so I ordered that, but then I realized my new rug wasn't going to go with my old kitchen and that it needed some revamping as well. Well I started

switching my curtains out and realized I may need new (or re-done, in this case) kitchen chairs... and that's where I am now. (That was basically a Saturday-Monday play-by-play) Nothing is quite ready to post here yet, it's still a bit of a work in progress (a very fabulous work in progress), but what I can show here is my bedroom that has a very similar story.

Just a few short weeks ago, someone was getting rid of some very old, very not-cute dressers. "I'll take 'em!" I blurted out before I even knew what hit me. The very old, very not-cute dressers were delivered and I wondered if we could really pull it off. We started painting them and they looked so fabulous I realized they wouldn't match my then very bland room, and you can probably see where this is going...

Before I knew it, I had a brand new bedroom, all of my own creation. (and a LOT of help from that darling Mr. of mine) with spending pretty much... nothin'. (Because I'm actually not a millionaire. Weird, I know.)

and Voila!

(I was obviously excited to take "after" pics because I didn't even worry about putting the rest of the laundry away...)

This week I've got re-decorating on my mind! I am consumed with color schemes and DIY ideas and re-doing my entire house ON A BUDGET. (Did I mention I'm not a millionaire?) It's 2012 and I'm determined to make our house our HOME.
Can it be done? Stay tuned.
Until then, I'll show you what we've gotten done so far. Tomorrow, the dressers!