Living Room Redesign

What I've Been Up To + New Turquoise Sofa

Hello everyone!  It has been a long long looooong time!  My break is on the heels of having recently moved into a new home!!  It is very exciting, and I couldn't love the space more. I am excited to get it all decorated and fabulous, but I am doing my best, at best(!) to keep up with it all.  And so, while I moved in and hit the ground running over the course of the first few days, I kinda hit the breaks after the first week.  With all that excitement, I thought I'd share my current design focus... my new quilted turquoise sofa! 

How fantastic is it?  Just like with my wardrobe, if I see something one of a kind, I love it, I can pay for it in cash and/or I would walk away with regrets not taking it home, I take it home.  One other biggie for me is when I am getting a great value.  I scored this sofa recently at the last Potato Sack sale on West Morehead St in Charlotte.  It belonged to a local decorator and was mega marked down at the Potato Sack after not being scooped up at it's prior home, Charlotte's uber stylish multi-merchant venue, Slate Interiors. If you live in the Queen City and love the thrill of the hunt and find, this is one event you don't want to miss.  You can read more about The Potato Sack here.  The next sale is coming up at the beginning of November.  I'm sure I'll be back to see what other treasures they have.

In the meantime, I've pinned several rooms with turquoise sofas on my Pinterest page as I try to decide exactly how I want to build this room!

My House Project In Print!

It has been such a fun opportunity to partner with Fort Mill Magazine, a gem of a publication, which happens to be about a little town just south of the border that is a big part of my heritage. When the owner said they were interested in featuring my completed Living Room and Dining Room Redesign in the Texture section of their newly revamped publication, I really couldn't believe it.  I still can't!  Go figure, yesterday when I was vacuuming in the dining room, I realized the foyer needed to be painted... a fantastically fabulous bright happy shade of plum!  My husband already found the paint cans in the corner of the room. Can you imagine his tone of surprise when he asked what room I am painting purple?! In all actuality, he handled it quite well. After all, we have the rest of our lives to live in beige, don't we?  You can check out the entire story here.  What do you think?  Is my love affair with bright over the top or just right?