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Welcome to my Fall Home Tour

October 21, 2018 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

I feel like I am behind on the Fall bandwagon. Before you know it, it will be time to get out the Christmas decorations. Not that I’m complaining but I need to get moving! With all the traveling we have been doing, my motivation is a bit lacking!

Today, I am sharing a mini Fall home tour. I don’t typically go out and buy new decor every year. I like the tradition of pulling the old out and reminiscing. Having said that, I did decide to part ways with a few things that were no longer my style. I offered them to my oldest son for his apartment but he said thanks but no thanks. I will admit, there was a wee little wince when he said no. I think some of my most treasured memories with the boys are the ones of us decorating for the different holidays.

I made this Hello Fall Welcome wooden sign like my DIY Christmas sign. You can read about it here. I asked my husband to draw the truck for me and I used carbon paper to trace it onto the board. I think adding DIY signs is an easy way to add decorative touches for little to no cost.

I also scattered a few pumpkins, leaves and a fairy in the kitchen to amp up the Fall touches. I like the color orange with all of the grey we have in the house. It provides a little punch of vibrant color.

Welcome to my Fall Home Tour

What holiday would be complete without decorative pillows? I. Can’t. Help. Myself!! I picked up both of the pillows at Michaels on clearance. I do believe it is a true obsession.

I also added some Fall touches to the living room. I pulled my orange pillows and throws out, dressed the mantle with some greenery and added a few mini faux jack o lanterns. It creates a warm and inviting space.

In the Dining Room, I added a new to me Goodwill basket filled with pumpkins and some gourds to the tablescape.

The last part of the tour is the sitting room off of the Master Bedroom. I still adore the transformation of this space.

So that’s all I have for the mini Fall Home Tour. If I can get myself organized and go out and buy some pumpkins for the outside, I will share our Fall Front Porch. I think I am in a bit of shock that October is almost O-V-E-R! Guess what that means…we are closer to the Countdown to Christmas with HallMark!!!

I Hope you enjoyed the tour.

Until Next Time,

My Obsession with Pillows

May 24, 2018 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

Awhile back, a friend shared this tweet with me and asked if it reminded me of anyone…

I’m secretly doing an investigation on how many decorative pillows I can put around the house till husband loses his shit.

Current count:23

— mama77⚽️ (@deegeemindi) April 13, 2017

If you listen to Instagram stories, almost every single person talks about their “obsessions.” They’re obsessed with a new lipstick, outfit, shoes and the list goes on and on. Well, in all honesty, I do not think it’s a real obsession unless they are hiding their crap in the back of their car, a closet or some secret compartment in an ottoman. If they are… then it just may be a real honest to goodness obsession!

Now, we are going to see if my husband actually reads this little blog because if he does the gig is up! Today I am sharing my obsession with pillows and it may be a real obsession. Husband of mine, you may want to stop reading at this point!

I feel like my love of pillows is a fairly new thing for me. It probably started a few years back at Christmas time. I mean have you seen some of the fabulous pillow designs around the holidays? I really think that is where this all began and it has since spiraled into other holidays and seasons. It is so easy to change the look of a room with a few pillows.

Let’s start with my most recent purchase. If I’m being totally honest, I order this months ago but it was on backorder and I kind of forgot about it until it showed up on my doorstep yesterday.

I debated on this one for a while but it was too cute to pass up. I order it from The Painted Fox and it makes a lovely addition to the other 50 pillows on our bed! While I was waiting for this pillow to come in (or forgot that I ordered it, however you want to look at it) I found another one that has since been moved to the chest at the end of our bed.

I was kind of hoping my husband wouldn’t notice but he did. You can’t see them all but there are actually only 9 pillows on our bed. To be fair I sleep with 2 of those 9.

Now on to my sitting room which is a little cozy nook off of our bedroom. I have two chairs and an ottoman in this room. It is where I watch all of my shows. It is a news free zone!

If you are wondering what this is, it is my hidden loot. I have four Holiday pillows stored in my ottoman. Next year, when I start to decorate for Christmas, can someone please remind me that they are in there? You know I am going to forget!

Yes, there are several pillows inside my Goodwill Credenza. This piece is great for hiding/storing extra pillows. I also have my Fall pillows stored in my closet.

Since my oldest son has graduated and moved out, I redid his room. It’s probably a little more my style now than his, hence the green decorative pillow. I will share more on his old room in the next few weeks.

This is another bedroom revamp, I added these decorative pillows to all white bedding to finish off the look. I will share this room in a few weeks as well.

Decorative Pillows

I added blush pillows to the family room recently. I thought there would be some push back on the color choice. Either no one has noticed or they really do not care. I think this room transforms the most by changing out the pillows. Apparently, I am the only one…still no comment from the other members of this household. Maybe that is why I keep buying pillows…no one notices!

This pillow on my bench in the kitchen is one of my favorites and has been around for several years. I really like the texture of it. It is very reminiscent of the Magnolia line of pillows minus the cost. The pillows in my office are also similar to the Magnolia line as well. I picked them up at HomeGoods for a great price.

It’s a good dupe isn’t it?

I added a few new pillows to the sunroom and kept my favorite whale pillow. Charlie is always laying up against it.

and lastly,

more hidden pillows.

Current Count:45

Until Next Time,

Adding Fall Touches to your Home

October 20, 2016 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

Today it is all about Fall. This year I am keeping it super easy by adding simple fall touches to our home. Last year I sorted through all my decorations and donated most of the ones that did not hold special memories for me. When the boys were little they loved decorating for the Halloween. This year it is more about Fall rather than Halloween.

This simple wooden Welcome acorn is on our entryway table.

In the kitchen, I added a few pumpkins including the one my youngest made in preschool. He is now 13.

I also added a Pumpkin Fairy to my wreath. The pumpkin beside the wreath is the one my son made…out of a roll of toilet paper. He was very excited by this when he was 4 years old which makes me want to save it forever. I love the ages they all are now but sometimes I really miss that age when everything was so exciting for them.

Adding Simple Fall Touches to your Home

Next, we head to the dining room.

I made the chalkboard banner a few years ago. You can check it out here.

I added the cotton wreath to this chair for added texture. I also like the tone on tone with the chair colors of white, cream and tan that pick up the same colors in the wreath.

In the family room, I switched out my red pillow for orange pillows and I added a few pumpkins.

(Notice the greenery, yep that is my poinsettia…it is still alive. Although, I have no idea if it will turn red again!)

I like the added orange touches to this room. I will switch back to red in December and possibly add a new one to the mix! I am into throws and pillows at the moment!

The pumpkin on the end table is another favorite. My older two boys picked it out about 17 years ago. It is one I pull out each and every year. The same goes for the pumpkin below, it’s another one the older two boys picked out.

The final room I added a few Fall touches to is the Sunroom. I love this room. It is where we spend most of our time. It is just a very comfortable space.

Talk about simple, the tobacco baskets and the pig were already there. I plopped the pumpkin down with the intentions of painting it cream or white (like you see all over Pinterest) at some point but I can tell that is not going to happen. Besides I am kind of loving the pops of orange throughout the house.

That my friends wraps up our Fall Home Tour, I hope you have enjoyed this glimpse into our home.

Until Next Time,

My Small Obsession with Bargain Shopping

August 25, 2016 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

It is no secret that I love to go thrift shopping. Everyone has their own little thing, my husband loves to golf. I love to bargain hunt, dig through junk, search for that item I never even knew that I wanted! It’s just something that I like to do. I feel like everyone in my family benefits from my small obsession with thrift shopping. They may or may not agree with that statement!

This week at Goodwill, I found some more Target Salvage. A monogram pillow cover, yes, I know I said I was done with the initials but it matched my throw perfectly. Plus I have been looking for a pillow to add to my basket of throws because I want to add my vintage lamp to the table but I can’t stand seeing the cord hanging down. I know such small problems I deal with on a daily basis. Now the pillow takes care of that problem and it looks awesome.

You can see the clearance tag from Target still on the packaging. It was pretty cheap on its final mark down at Target but nothing beats Goodwill prices, well to me anyway! Also, if you donate to Goodwill you get coupons and yesterday was 50% off of all home good items. So score for me!

The other item I picked up yesterday was a small cutting board. I am a bit of a germaphobe so I will not use it as a cutting board. I am going to sand it down and stain it a darker color. Then I am going to add it to my white dish collection in my glass front cabinets in the kitchen.

Bargain Hunting

Fabulous Finds

The last item I am sharing was a freebie from our local nursery. I am so excited by these burlap sacks! We got five in all.

They are approximately 40″ x 24″. They are not vintage but I still love them and they were FREE!

There are so many bargains out there to be had. Sometimes you need to think outside the box which makes it even more fun for me. I absolutely love thrift shopping and my small obsession with bargain hunting has helped me revamp our home and stick to a budget.

Until Next Time,

Friday Favorites: Adding Warmth with Pillows & Throws

January 15, 2016 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

We are midway through the first month of 2016 and I feel like I am just now getting into the swing of things. Having said that, welcome to this week’s edition of Friday Favorites: Adding warmth with pillows & throws.

I mentioned before that I felt like our home was so stark once we packed away all of the Christmas lights and decoration. So I have been adding pillows and throws to inject some warmth into our spaces. There is nothing like getting cozy under a thick chunky blanket and watching a movie or reading a great book.

All throughout the Christmas Season, I was waiting on some cold temperatures and snow, instead I turned the air conditioner on Christmas Night, it was so warm. Now we are getting the colder temperatures and I love it!

The first picture I am sharing is a handmade thick crocheted creamy white blanket that we received as a wedding gift almost 22 years ago.

This is my napping blanket. I will be wide awake but once I cover up with this thick afghan I am down for the count. This is one of my most treasured gifts.

Have you seen those ultra thick & chunky throws in some of the shops on Etsy? This is one of my favorites. I really, really like this. Isn’t it gorgeous?

You can find it here at CosenzaStore. Maybe, just maybe I will treat myself. I could probably sleep forever under that thing!

Seriously though, don’t you just love that thick, chunky throw? O.k. moving on with Friday Favorites: Adding warmth with pillows & throws.

Right before Christmas I picked up a few pillows at Target on clearance.

This pillow is really soft and I like the texture of it. I was feeling like everything was flat (if you know what I mean) so I added a few different textures to the sofa by adding more pillows and throws with different materials.

I added a thick and fuzzy creamy pillow with a fun pompom fringe to our leather chair. This chair just looked too serious and formal sitting by the fireplace. The pompom pillow lightens it up a bit. I picked it up at T.J. Maxx.

I also picked up the grey one there as well.

The grey pillow is pilling a bit more than I like but it is any easy fix. I just need to get out my fabric shaver and run it over the pillow. It only takes a few minutes to do. I imagine that’s why it was on clearance. Did you notice it matches the throw on the leather chair? I bought it awhile back at T.J. Maxx, you can see the full post here.

We have a bench in our kitchen that the kids use to put their shoes on in the morning. I added a creamy throw and pillow to warm that space up a bit.

I found the throw at HomeGoods and the pillow at Marshalls awhile back. I like the added texture and warmth they bring to this little bench area. I am sure the boys could not possibly care less that it looks warm and cozy. They just need a place to quickly put their shoes on and rush out the door.

I hope you have a great weekend. Happy Friday!

Until Next Time,

Friday Favorites

January 9, 2016 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

Welcome to my first Friday Favorites of 2016. Yes, my first Friday Favorites and I am late getting this out! Most of my favorite picks come from Target and HomeGoods this week.

Our home feels so stark since we took all of the Christmas decorations down. I think everyone feels this way once the Christmas decorations are packed away and the twinkling lights are gone. I would like to have twinkling lights up year round if I could get away with it.

Our front door was so bare and I love putting different wreaths up but wasn’t ready to put my olive branch wreath back up just yet. I wanted something a little different than the green since we have had the pine wreath up for over a month. I wanted something a little lighter and brighter and I found it at HomeGoods.

I think this adds just the right amount of lightness that I was looking for.

I am sharing this pillow that my son bought me for Christmas.

I adore this little black and gold pillow by Nate Berkus at Target. It is now on clearance for a little over $5.00 for in store purchase only. It adds the right amount of sparkle to my Home Office. Thanks BK!

The next Friday Favorite is another Christmas gift, this one is from my hubby. It is another fabulous find from Target.

I told my guys they could walk into Target and buy anything in there and I would love it! This is the Threshold Desktop Chalk and Cork Easel. My hubby also picked up the little gold Owl pushpins from Target too. I think it looks great on my desk.

The last thing I am sharing is our framed Christmas Card.

Every year once Christmas is over I frame our Family Christmas Card. This year was the easiest card ever! Usually I have to force the boys to take our annual photo and believe me it is not easy. Once I get them all together it takes about another hour to get one decent photo where everyone is looking and all eyes are open. When it is all said and done someone is usually upset with someone else… but not this year. I snapped this photo of the boys while we were at a wedding and they were watching the beautiful bride walk down the aisle.

I have all of the framed Christmas cards since we starting doing this 12 years ago when the Gman was born.

I knew this was the photo I was going to use and everyone was happy. I used Pear Tree Greetings this year for our cards and could not have been happier!

I hope you enjoyed this week’s Friday Favorites. Have a great weekend.

Until Next Time,

Friday Favorites: Christmas Edition

December 4, 2015 By stylishrevamp Leave a Comment

I feel like I have been decorating for weeks when in fact it has only been a few days. This weekend we will go to a local farm and pick out our main Christmas tree (one of my favorite things to do). This is the tree that Santa will leaves his gifts under on Christmas Eve.

Since we are getting into the Christmas Spirit, I thought this weeks Friday Favorites would be a Christmas Edition.

I like to have a Christmas Tree in our sitting room in the Master Bedroom. I have been using the same one that my husband bought when we were dating. It was definitely time to replace it. I found the perfectly flocked tree at Walmart. It is so pretty and so easy to assemble.

The tree is 7.5 feet tall, pre-lit, and flocked beautifully. For $149 I could not ask for anything better.

A few years back at Christmas, the girls bought me a set of Vintage Stamped Spoons.

I had never seen anything like this at the time. I was obsessed with these spoons. So much so, that I bought my own metal stamping kit only to realize it is WAY more difficult than it looks. These spoons are so gorgeous and I thought The 12 Days of Christmas was such a clever idea. I look forward to pulling these out each year! The owner of the shop is Kerrie L. Balma and you can check out her work on the WoodenHive. You will not be disappointed!

Lastly, I am sharing some pillow covers from H&M. I didn’t even know that H&M carried items for the home. I found another new favorite shopping spot for home decor at fabulous prices.

This pillow cover was only $5.99. I also picked up two metallic and cream pillow covers for $9.99. Again, great prices and they are adorable.

This pillow was a bit more difficult to photograph because of the metallic. They really are pretty. In the back ground, you can see my gold and glitter DIY Believe sign. I will be sharing the details on that next week.

I hope you all enjoyed this weeks Friday Favorites Christmas Edition.

On a side note, Happy Birthday to my Hubby!

Have a great weekend!

Until Next Time,

Welcome to my Fall Home Tour

Welcome to my Fall Home Tour

My Obsession with Pillows

Decorative Pillows

Adding Fall Touches to your Home

Adding Simple Fall Touches to your Home

My Small Obsession with Bargain Shopping

Bargain Hunting

Fabulous Finds

Friday Favorites: Adding Warmth with Pillows & Throws

Friday Favorites

Friday Favorites: Christmas Edition

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