It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful
{the new house} The following is a guest post by Christi from Jealous Hands. I’ve gotten to know Christi over the past few weeks and find her attitude to be refreshing, and freeing. Christi, thank you for trusting us with your story. *** Our house will be foreclosed on October 6. I’ll bet it’s happening [...]
My boys have never really had any kind of window treatment on their windows other than a randomly tacked up mistreatment that lasts for a few days. My oldest son’s mattress is currently on the floor. In the last couple of years we’ve moved so often that if I delay a month or so in [...]
When we moved in the first thing I did was removed the weird fern patterned “privacy paper” from the front door sidelights. Y’all. This stuff is like contact paper for your windows only SUPER sticky. One day I walked up and found my boys pressing their hands and faces and well, other body parts up [...]
We’ve lived here six weeks now and our bedroom still looks like this. And yesterday, Writer Chic wrote a wonderful post showing her beautiful master bedroom transformation and linked to Nesting Place so much that I think my head grew a few sizes. I felt the need to show you my reality just in case [...]
Here’s the after shot of my surround makeover. And here is one of the billions of befores. Forgive me for the tragedy that is up on the mantle. But do you notice the difference with the black surround? Or whatever that part is called surrounding the firebox? It’s not a huge change but for a [...]
Ever wonder what inspired the tag line for Nesting Place? It was this post written by Heather who I doubt has ever come to this blog. She’s dealing with more important things these days. I read that post the summer before I started blogging but the simple message was profound and stuck with me. I [...]
1. Worry that it’s never good enough. 2. Put off doing anything because you don’t know where to start. 3. Aspire to have a home just like the ones you see in the magazines. 4. Tell yourself you don’t deserve it. 5. Assume you can’t have anything pretty because you have kids and not much [...]
Do you ever wish that you could have a set of rules that if you just followed them step by step then whatever goal you are trying to achieve would be met? Are you looking for rules to follow when decorating your house? I’ve been known to spout a few rules myself but I always [...]
Just like you I’ve been thinking about goals lately. Every year my husband and I take a few days and get together with my sister and her husband and my mom and dad and we share our goals, hang out and be dorks together. It’s one of the highlights of the year. I usually have [...]
Watch out, I’m deep in thought.Do you try to decorate by following RULES? I found this great little diagram and definitions here. I really didn’t read the too much into it but thought it was a good way to think about decorating. Bureaucratic: You feel that rules are necessary to get things done. You want [...]
I've got a secret that will unlock creativity and hope for your home. Ready? Here it is:: It doesn't have to be perfect to be beautiful. Yep. That's it. All you have to do is believe it. Read More…
